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Key Points
- Staff handbooks protect
clinics against violations of employment laws and potential employment
practices liability claims by serving as documentation that the
employer is communicating and is abiding by rules of employment
law.
- Rudeness,
insensitivity, or failure to maintain patient confidentiality negatively
impact a clinic.
- Position
descriptions form the basis for all staff roles and responsibilities.
- Most
clinic staff are salaried. Staff may also be contractors or volunteers.
- Proper
credentialing and privileging helps to ensure that only qualified
health professionals work in clinics and that they do not practice
outside the limits of their training and expertise, or beyond the
capabilities of the clinic to support the services being provided.
- Within
the first 2 days of employment, each new clinic staff member should
be given a general on-site orientation to the facility and information
on the scope, structure, and function of the clinic.
- Staff
turnover decreases productivity and services during times of vacancies
and increases costs and time spent on recruitment and orientation
of new staff.
- For license
renewal in Ohio, dentists are required to obtain 40 CE hours every
2 years, and dental hygienists are required to obtain 12 CE hours
every 2 years. There is no CE requirement for license renewal for
dental assistants.
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