Conscious Dental Sedation Mentor Program
Mentoring for intravenous sedation and inhalation sedation is now essential for all new starters and inexperienced dentists, dental nurses and DCPs. The current IACSD guidelines published in April 2015 state that all dental practitioners and dental nurses new to conscious sedation need to be mentored by an IACSD approved assessor after first completing an IACSD accredited course (Like our course for Beginners). If you have an experienced sedation practitioner colleague who is willing to mentor you then we are usually able to facilitate their IACSD approval as a clinical assessor. Note that these guidelines apply in England, Scotland and Wales currently; in Northern Ireland it is best practice to follow these but they are yet to be fully implemented.
The clinical assessor needs to mentor and evaluate 20 clinical cases undertaken by the beginner sedationist/assistant for Intravenous sedation and 10 for inhalation sedation. A minimum of 5 sedation assessments must also be evaluated by the clinical assessor. If you are new to sedation you cannot legally learn this technique from anyone other than an IACSD accredited course and you cannot be mentored by anyone that hasn't been IACSD approved as a clinical assessor. (Outside of University and Trust based courses). We are fortunate to be able to offer the option of completing all of your cases at the sedation centre, Luton with all patients provided.
The clinical assessor needs to mentor and evaluate 20 clinical cases undertaken by the beginner sedationist/assistant for Intravenous sedation and 10 for inhalation sedation. A minimum of 5 sedation assessments must also be evaluated by the clinical assessor. If you are new to sedation you cannot legally learn this technique from anyone other than an IACSD accredited course and you cannot be mentored by anyone that hasn't been IACSD approved as a clinical assessor. (Outside of University and Trust based courses). We are fortunate to be able to offer the option of completing all of your cases at the sedation centre, Luton with all patients provided.
OPTION 1 - The Sedation Mentor Centre
We are fortunate to be able to offer the opportunity to complete all of your supervised cases at our partnered sedation centre in Luton, UK. You have the option to attend on Mondays, Thursdays or Fridays. The mentoring clinic runs every week of the year and the dates are arranged with yourself to fit around your schedule. Supervising and Mentoring is one to one and we recommend you bring your dental nurse to have their cases signed off at the same time as yourself (for no additional fee). This is by far the simplest, quickest and most cost effective way to complete your mentored cases and there is a set fee for this (not a daily rate and so won't be affected if there are any no shows etc on the days you are there). For more information contact us today or email us on info@dentalsedationcourses.co.uk
OPTION 2 - Our Travelling Sedation Mentors
We can arrange for one of our experienced IACSD accredited DSC mentors to supervise your cases, they will help you complete your logbook of cases, competencies, reflections and assessments as well as facilitate your final accreditation and certification.Our Diploma qualified experienced mentors will supervise you at your own practice sedating your own patients for a set day rate of £800-£1500 depending on location. Contact us here or on mentors@dentalsedationcourses.co.uk to discuss this further or arrange this.
OPTION 3 - Self provided DSC assessed sedation mentor scheme
If you would prefer to utilise a suitably experienced practitioner of your choosing then this is another option. They must have completed an accredited training course themselves such as our course or similar and be experienced in the conscious sedation technique that they are supervising. They must also be approved as a sedation mentor by the IACSD via the Royal College of Surgeons for which you can download a form here. You can arrange your own times and dates with the mentor and we will be on hand to advise and assess throughout, any financial arrangements remain between you and your mentor. For dental nurses, the practitioner supervising need not be IACSD approved for the NEBDN course but needs IACSD approval for all other dental nurse courses. For Dental Nurses this is the mentor scheme you will follow for all courses i.e. your sedating dentist will act as your mentor and for all courses but the mentor centre is available to you too.