Our Commitment
When you enrol with the Dental Nurse Academy, we believe you are entering a partnership between the DNA, your employer and yourself.
We all have a big interest in seeing you succeed and have agreed to help you in every way that we can. Therefore our partnership agreement with your employer includes provision of training and supervision to make you the best dental nurse that you can be.
What Your Employer Needs To Do
Your employer must provide a GDC-registered witness (or witnesses) who will provide testimony for some of your in-practice assignments, submitted in your coursework (Portfolio of Evidence). In addition, employers must also provide a mentor who may supervise, sometimes teach, but always to provide you with opportunity to learn your profession in a working environment. For apprentices, employers must ensure they meet the apprenticeship requirements for employers.
Portfolio of Evidence (PoE)
Coursework assessments are submitted as a Portfolio of Experience (PoE), formerly known as Record of Experience (RoE). No practice visits are necessary by assessors. The PoE includes witness testimony after a procedure has been completed in practice, performance evidence uploads (photo/video/documents) and written assignments. All are submitted online.
Work is witnessed by a GDC registrant working in the practice and then signed off by a DNA assessor.
The records in the PoE form part of your proof that you are ready to take the NEBDN assessments, and we work with you and your employer to ensure these exercises are done correctly.
Your Employer's Commitment
For Diploma learners joining the Academy, we'll email your employer automatically to ask for their support. All they need to do to confirm this is click a link in the email.
For apprentices an Apprenticeship Agreement is drawn up, which all parties must sign. Find out more about the apprenticeship application process on our apprentices page.
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