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Learning
This activity will take place while you are on placement in a dentist.
In this task the employer has asked you to:
• Do a stock check to identify which material needs to be reordered
• Compare prices of some of the basic consum-ables used in the dental practice
Learning
In this task, you will be covering the areas detailed below.
Dental Nursing:
• Understanding of the types of stock used in a den-tal practice
• Understand the costs associated with equipment and materials and their direct impact on treat-ments
• Functional Skills Mathematics:
• Carry out calculations with numbers of any size in practical context, to a given number of decimal places
Tables, charts and graphs
Functional Skills English Level 1 and Level 2:
• Formal and informal writing
• Document layout
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Task 1
The dental practice has been very busy and needs to replen-ish the stock. Your employer has asked you to complete a stock check to identify which types of stock need to be or-dered. First of all you need to work out how many different items are stocked (this could be a large amount so limit this to 10 items).
Plan it – think about what you need to do and how you are go-ing to do it
Complete a stock check
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Stock Check List
Adding stock
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Task 2
Carry out the stock check. Complete a table with the items and stock.
Design a table and add price data
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Task 3
Pick 5 of the items you have listed and use the internet/catalogues to price up the items from different suppliers.
Plan it – think about what you need to do and how you are going to do it
Design a table to show the results.
Report Writing
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Task 4
Write a report to your employer giving details of your activity and what your recommendations are for purchasing equipment based on your results. You may want to use charts to show the differences in prices.
Think about what you need to do and how you are going to do it.
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