Dental Nursing EPA

Hi, I am currently doing my dental nursing apprenticeship and I will have to sit my EPA in the next month or so. I am totally freaking out because I have ALOT of anxiety and I get very nervous during interviews. Has anyone had their EPA recently? Please can anyone advise was it very hard and scary? What kinds of questions do they ask? Is it possible to ask them to reword questions if I struggle to understand them? Are the medical emergency questions hard? And are we allowed to look through our portfolios if we get scared and dont know what to say? Any advice would be really appreciated.

Reply 1

leahlyons.s

Hi i'm assuming you've done your EPA now, I'm in the same boat as you super super anxious I was wondering how yours went? x

Reply 2

lulu bones

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by leahlyons.s

Hi i'm assuming you've done your EPA now, I'm in the same boat as you super super anxious I was wondering how yours went? x

hi ive done my EPA and its not as bad as I thought it was, they ask you about your observation so best to do them on the same day, asked me about, X-ray process, shutting and opening surgery, asked about safeguarding, GDC and just basic things you learn about at the start of your apprenticeship x

Reply 3

leahlyons.s

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by lulu bones

that's great thank you! i have my obs and interview on wednesday, doing a crown prep for the obs feeling confident for that it's just the interview i'm still stressed about haha. glad yours went well ! xx