eCPD Resource - Surveys

Dental Nursing

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Surveys

Introduction

This activity will take place while you are on place-ment in a dentist.

In this task, you will need to design and carry out a survey of the patients attending the practice.

You need to:

• Present the results of your survey in table format

• Explain the results you have collected

Learning

In this task, you will be covering the areas detailed below.

Dental Nursing:

• Understand the needs of the patients

• Percentage of patients receiving free treatment

Functional skills English Level 1:

Collect and record discrete data and organise and represent information

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Surveys

Task 1

Design a survey that you can hand out to patients to complete while they are in the waiting room. Keep the survey simple and agree a time period for your survey to be carried out over (1 week, 2 weeks). You need to find out in the time period the amount of patients who pay for their treatment and who do not pay for their treatment and the reasons why.

Plan it – think about what you need to do and how you are going to do it

Record the results of your survey on a tally chart (see example).

You need to understand how to use tally marks and what they represent. You need to be able to represent information in a way that makes sense to others. Include:

• Columns to separate the information vertically

• Column heading so that the reader knows what information each col-umn contains

• Rows to show each category or group

• A total to show how many patients were involved

Designing a survey

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Dr Jones Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

Pay for treatment

//////////

////////

////////////

////// ///

Income support

/// / ///

Job seekers allowance

// // / //

Maternity / / //

Create a table

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Task 2

You now need to transfer this information into a table. Use the space provided to draw the table. Remember to use consis-tent language and formatting.

Draw your table. There is space on the next page to do this.

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Table

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