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has anyone here been doing dental nursing?

  • 15-09-2012 7:42pm
    #1
    Reon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭


    if you are could you fill me in whats the course like and all that jazz and the further progression :D


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  • #2
    fonpokno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    I finished dental nursing a year ago! Tis a tough course. You'll be in 8-5 most days and I hear they've started doing evening lectures as well this year. You're kinda thrown onto clinics and need to pick it up as you go along but if you keep up and keep your head screwed on you'll be grand!

    No shortage of jobs going, certainly not for my class anyway. Everyone got work very fast! There are a few options for add-on courses with radiography, implant nursing, phlebotomy.


  • #3
    Tcddentistry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Tcddentistry


    fonpokno wrote: »
    I finished dental nursing a year ago! Tis a tough course. You'll be in 8-5 most days and I hear they've started doing evening lectures as well this year. You're kinda thrown onto clinics and need to pick it up as you go along but if you keep up and keep your head screwed on you'll be grand!

    No shortage of jobs going, certainly not for my class anyway. Everyone got work very fast! There are a few options for add-on courses with radiography, implant nursing, phlebotomy.

    How is the pay? Decent?


  • #4
    fonpokno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    Pay is crap enough! You can live on it but it's not exactly a goldmine!


  • #5
    CPFC IRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭CPFC IRL


    Hi il be doing dental hygiene i was wondering the same about the course I assume its pretty similar to dental nursing in terms of hours and lectures


  • #6
    Reon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Reon


    CPFC IRL wrote: »
    Hi il be doing dental hygiene i was wondering the same about the course I assume its pretty similar to dental nursing in terms of hours and lectures

    thats what i want to do please keep me updated on how the course is :D i heard the pay is really good depending on experience and location can range from $50k+


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  • #7
    fonpokno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    Nursing and hygiene spend a large portion of first year lectures together so ye'll get to know each other well enough. Hygiene is a tough one as well. Some find it quite tricky to keep on top of if they haven't done nursing beforehand.

    In Ireland there isn't a lot of work for hygienists atm. Many end up working as nurses or doing a morning in one practice and an afternoon in another going to about 6 different clinics a week.


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