[Training of the auxiliary personnel]. / Formación del personal auxiliar.

The writer highlights the essential role played by auxiliary nursing staff in health services. She stresses the need that such staff be trained in well-organized programs that include learning experience that prepare the student for real-life situations that will be encountered on the job. She cites the advantages of employing auxiliaries, who increase the productivity of the health system and release higher-level personnel for more demanding tasks. She also refers to the importance of competent supervision capable of stimulating auxiliaries to occupational self-improvement. Finally, she outlines a series of strategies for the future training of nursing auxiliaries in Latin America.

Formación del personal auxiliar / Training of the auxiliary personnel

The writer highlights the essential role played by auxiliary nursing staff in health services. She stresses the need that such staff be trained in well-organized programs that include learning experience that prepare the student for real-life situations that will be encountered on the job. She cites the advantages of employing auxiliaries, who increase the productivity of the health system and release higher-level personnel for more demanding tasks. She also refers to the importance of competent supervision capable of stimulating auxiliaries to occupational self-improvement. Finally, she outlines a series of strategies for the future training of nursing auxiliaries in Latin America (Au)

[The rational removal of dental calculus in every-day practice]. / Die rationelle Zahnsteinentfernung in der täglichen Praxis.

A survey of instrumental and technical scaling is followed by the representation of a pymamid-shaped sharp-edged turbine instrument (fig. 1 and 2) that permits to remove also the subgingival calculus in less time, with a good survey (due to the spray), and with less stress on the dentist than the hand instruments.