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Dental Consultant Advice: Acceptable Staff Conduct

Dental Consultant Advice: Acceptable Staff Conduct

While it is important to understand what is unacceptable conduct for your dental staff, it is equally important to understand what is “acceptable conduct” in a dental practice so you can concentrate on the positive not the negative.  In order to create a positive working environment I encourage you and your staff to practice the following code as much as possible: 1. Ensure patients have your full interest, receive top quality care, and feel valued. 2. Exceed patients’ expectations for treatment, communications and office experience. 3. Be courteous and considerate toward patients and fellow staff. 4. Conduct yourself in an honest,...

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Dental Consultant Advice: Running Staff Meeting

Dental Consultant Advice: Running Staff Meeting

AVOIDING INEFFECTIVE MEETINGS A very poor way to run an office is for you and your staff to have meetings infrequently and only when there has been a problem.  Staff meetings should be something that are useful and routine, not something that are called as emergencies because you’re upset or there have been problems or somebody has made a mistake.   You can make the mistake of calling a meeting when only one individual needs to be corrected and that individual is talked about in the meeting as if it’s “everybody.”  That will do two things very poorly.  First, this is a way of chastising...

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Dental Consultant Advice: NLRB, Cell Phones & Texting

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Based on a 2015 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling, office manuals or handbooks can't have overly broad prohibitions on employee use of cell phones. Besides which, if you feel you can't treat your staff like adults, that's a bigger problem. That being said, there is nothing wrong with issuing a simple and sane cell phone policy just as you might do for a dress code, calling in sick, vacations, PTO, etc.  If you feel you need a cell phone policy here is my recommendation: CELL PHONES Cell phone use (including texting, checking Facebook, etc.) should only occur during breaks or meal periods...

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Dental Consultant Advice: Patient Information

Dental Consultant Advice: Patient Information

Dental patient information, both written in the chart and verbal, is absolutely confidential. Practice and dentist’s business affairs are also to be treated with the utmost confidentiality. The above subjects should not be discussed outside of the office. Office matters must be kept in the office. Some government regulations also restrict release of any information about a patient to members of the public or press, other professionals, pharmacies, family, friends, etc. without the patient's specific authorization. These regulations generally cover information such as the patient’s name, age, address, sex, nature of illness or injury, general condition, etc. When discussing confidential matters...

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