dental chairside assistant
ISCO: 3251. Skills: 43. Essential: 36.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assist the dentist during the dental treatment procedure
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- deal with patients' anxiety
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on oral healthcare and disease prevention
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- fabricate mouth models
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow dentists' instructions
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain dental station and operatory
- manage infection control in the facility
- observe patient throughout dental treatment
- pass dental instruments
- perform dental charting
- perform dental radiographs
- prepare dental instruments for sterilization
- prepare materials for dental procedures
- prepare patients for dental treatment
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- promote inclusion
- provide dental administrative post-treatment patient services
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams