dental chairside assistant
Code 3251.1
Dental chairside assistants support dental practitioners in clinical treatments, as preparation and helping in practical execution and follow-up, and administrative tasks under supervision and following the orders of the dental practitioner.
Essential skills
Skills and competences
- Considerar las preferencias y valores del paciente en la toma de decisiones
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assist the dentist during the dental treatment procedure
- accept own accountability
- deal with patients' anxiety
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- educate on oral healthcare and disease prevention
- maintain dental station and operatory
- empathise with the healthcare user
- pass dental instruments
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- fabricate mouth models
- perform dental radiographs
- observe patient throughout dental treatment
- prepare materials for dental procedures
- listen actively
- prepare patients for dental treatment
- prepare dental instruments for sterilization
- promote inclusion
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- provide dental administrative post-treatment patient services
- perform dental charting
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow dentists' instructions
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- manage infection control in the facility
- provide health education
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences