21/10/2025 – Certificate in Foundation Dentist Dental Nursing – Day 3 – 5.5 Hours CPD – NIMDTA

Course Information

Date: 21/10/2025

Start Time: 09:30-15:45

Completion Time: 5.5 Hours

Venue: Online Via Zoom

Speakers: Jacqueline O’Hagan, Melanie Witherall, Aaron Hutton & Stacy Topping

To gain critical awareness and knowledge of health literacy.
Advanced communication skills in relation to health literacy in health professional – patient interactions.
Sustainability of skills developed and application in practice.
Increase knowledge and understanding of dementia.
Increase your confidence to be able to support people living with dementia.
To provide information for dentistry in relation to services available to patients from community pharmacies.
To equip dental professionals with the knowledge and practical strategies to effectively build and maintain a Record of Competency required for the Foundation Dentist Dental Nursing course.

List of objectives for the course

Inform and educate – Professionals know about health literacy problems, their impact and interventions to tackle health literacy problems.
Teach communication skills – Professionals develop patient centred communication skills to address problems with health literacy.
Support behaviour change – Professionals adopt, change and maintain behaviour to address health literacy problems.
Enhanced knowledge of dementia.
Be able to identify vulnerable customers and understand their needs.
Confidence in interacting effectively with people living with dementia.
Provision of better access to services by making small changes.
Pharmacy First Minor ailment scheme.
Medication Use Review.
Smoking Cessation Scheme.
Identify what over-the counter medicines are and outline the indicators for use.
Highlight safety concerns, namely: cautions, contraindications, interaction profile and abuse/misuse potential.
Appreciate the evidence base (evidence of effectiveness).
Identify key components that should be included in a RoC.
Apply best practices for documenting learning and development activities.
Reflect on personal learning and professional growth through RoC entries.

Awareness of health literacy – Understand what health literacy is, including the of impact low health literacy
Self-management to enhance critical health literacy – Understand how to critically appraise health information to assess its effectiveness to deliver health messages
Shared decision making to enhance interactive health literacy – Understand how to apply communication techniques to enhance people’s health literacy
Sustaining health literacy focused communication – Apply and review communication techniques to improve your health literacy skills.

Local Alzheimer’s Society Services & Support.
This training session is intended to create an awareness and understanding of the role of community pharmacists and how/when dental professionals may signpost patients to a community pharmacy. It is also intended to increase awareness about over-the-counter medicines in a dental context, thereby helping to ensure safe and effective recommendations of such medicines to the public by the dental team.
This training session is intended to create an awareness and understanding of the requirements of the ROC.