Be Proactive Today | Protect Your Practice for Tomorrow

This course is intended for practice managers, practice owners, and senior dental nurses who take the lead on infection prevention and control compliance issues in dental practice.

This may include:

• Practice Managers
• Practice Owners
• Senior Dental Nurses
• Decontamination Leads
• Dental Team Members

To offer helpful tips for persons charged with building a robust, quality-focused infection prevention and control dental team.

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

This course is designed for practice managers and owners, safety officers, dentists, and dental nurses who take the lead on Healthcare Risk Waste within the practice. This introductory course identifies the path towards strengthening compliance structures and getting the practice processes ready for an inspector’s visit.

This may include:

• Practice Managers/Operations Managers
• Practice Owners/Safety Officers
• Dentists/Dental Hygienists
• Senior Dental Nurses/Decontamination Leads

• Consider the legal framework.
• Identify authorised roles and responsibilities.
• Examine key requirements for the protection of patients, workers, and the public.
• Review current best practice for managing waste sharps and non-sharps.
• Documentary evidence.

A record of attendance at this core CPD subject should be available as required by an inspector and maintained for at least 5 years.

This course is designed for practice managers and owners, radiation protection officers (RPOs), dentists, and dental nurses who take the lead on Ionising Radiation and Radiation Protection within the practice. This introductory course identifies the path towards strengthening radiation compliance structures and getting the practice processes ready for an inspector’s visit.

This may include:

• Practice Managers/Operations Managers
• Practice Owners/Undertaking Representative
• Radiation Protection Officer/Dentists
• Senior Dental Nurses/Compliance Leads

• Examine statutory controls, legal aspects, and organisational framework of radiation protection.
• Review basic first principles for radiation protection systems.
• Review authorised roles and responsibilities.
• Consider the implementation of the legislation in dental practice.
• Identify key requirements for the protection of patients, workers, and the public.
• Outline the HIQA assessment and inspection processes.

A record of attendance at this core CPD subject should be available as required by an inspector and maintained for at least 5 years.

• The course is intended for practice managers, dental practice owners and senior dental nurses who take the lead on clinical compliance issues in your practice. It is designed to provide a basic introduction to support you in fulfilling your statutory obligations in day-to-day management of your dental practice.This may include:
  • Practice Managers
  • Practice Owners
  • Senior Dental Nurses
  • Dentists
  • Compliance Leads

To examine the basic building blocks of a compliant dental practice

1. Introduce the core elements of practice compliance for responsible persons
2. Explain the underpinning terminology of policies, protocols, and procedures
3. Identify the nine dental regulators and list their regulatory scope in dentistry
4. Discuss a simple step-by-step pathway to achieving practice compliance

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

This introductory course raises your awareness and understanding of the steps necessary to strengthen your practice compliance structures. The course is intended for practice managers, dental practice owners and senior dental nurses who take the lead on infection prevention and control compliance issues within the practice.

This may include:

• Practice Managers
• Practice Owners
• Senior Dental Nurses
• Dentists
• Compliance Leads

To examine the basic building blocks of compliance in infection prevention and control

1. Introduce the core elements of infection control compliance for responsible persons
2. Review mandatory elements of infection prevention and control governance
3. Identify the infection control regulators and outline their regulatory scope in dentistry
4. Discuss essential steps on the path towards an infection control compliant practice

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

This course is designed for persons who have responsibility for radiation protection responsibilities or who are delegated specified duties to ensure a dental facility is compliant with statutory requirements, non-statutory regulations, and best practice guidance.

This may include:

• dental undertakings/practice owners
• principal dentists
• radiation protection officers (RPOs)
• practice managers
• other designated persons

To provide a step-by-step guide to HIQA’s Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ)

1. Review HIQA’s SAQ questionnaire and associated regulations
2. Consider response options which best reflect the practice’s performance under the Regulations
3. Examine options for bridging existing compliance gaps between

• not compliant and substantially compliant and
• substantially compliant and compliance

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

Dental team members, most especially persons who do not carry out the practical aspects of medical ionising radiation (non-users).

• Dental nurses/Dental hygienists/Orthodontic therapists
• Dentists including Radiation Protection Officer (RPO)
• Receptionists/Administration staff
• Cleaning and Maintenance staff

To review good practice in radiation protection measures required of dental personnel

1. Briefing on the legal obligations of employers and employees regarding radiation protection
2. Who is Accountable and What are the Responsibilities?
3. Personal protective controls – the do’s and don’ts of safe working in a radiation environment
4. Identification and management of accidental and unintended events.

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

This course is designed for persons who are delegated to carry out the practical aspects (physical conduct) of ionising radiation.

This may include:

• dental nurses
• dental hygienists
• dentists
• radiographers

To review the National and European legislation governing the use of ionising radiation in dentistry as it effects operators delegated the practical aspects of medical exposures.

1. Examine statutory controls, legal aspects, and organisational framework of radiation protection
2. Review basic first principles for radiation protection systems
3. Review authorised roles and responsibilities within the dental setting
4. Consider the implementation of the legislation in dentistry
5. Identify key requirements for the protection of patients, workers, and the public.

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

• Dentists
• Radiation Protection Officers (RPOs)
• Practice Owners/Practice Managers
• Dental Radiologists
• Radiographers

To review the National and European legislation governing the use of ionising radiation in dentistry as it effects undertakings and dentists (referrers and practitioners).

1. Examine statutory controls, legal aspects, and organisational framework of radiation protection as they apply to dentists;
2. Review the dentist’s basic first principles for radiation protection systems;
3. Review authorised roles and responsibilities for dentists;
4. Consider the implementation of the legislation in dentistry;
5. Identify key requirements for the safety and protection of patients, work colleagues, and the public.

• Video Lesson,
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance

This course is intended for dentists and dental team members who take x-rays. It is designed to support these persons in fulfilling their obligation to ensure the patient has awareness and understanding of the risks and benefits of a medical exposure, in advance of that procedure being carried out.

This may include:

• Dentists
• Dental Team members who take x-rays
• Radiation Protection Officers (RPOs)
• Practice Owners
• Practice Managers

To review the main issues when providing radiation information to patients on the risks and benefits of a dental x-ray

1. Consider the legal background and professional obligations underpinning the consent process for children and adults
2. List factors which contribute to communicating sensitive and scientific information to patients including the pregnancy question
3. Manage situations when a patient/parent raises questions or takes issue with a prescribed procedure

• Video Lesson
• Post-Course Evaluation
• CPD Certificate of Attendance