Expanding Duties™
Expanding Duties™ is a concept developed and a term coined by Expanded Duties LLC. Trademark status application has been filed.
Because Expanded Duties LLC realizes that not every assistant needs all the same duties, we also realize there needs to be a pathway to advance or expand the knowledge base and certified duties during the time the assistant grows as an EDDA.
Advance your position with Expanding Duties™
When an additional chairside assistant is needed by the doctor, s/he will look within the practice for a promising EDDA first – Hygiene is a great place to find that assistant! The EDDA – Hygiene has several of the duties required to be EDDA – GP, but not all. Similarly, the EDDA-GP-Lite assistant may need to be promoted to EDDA-GP+Scanning.
Dr Joe Hair and Expanded Duties LLC felt there should be some way to expand the assistant’s knowledge and skill set without having to repeat all of the previously certified duties in a stock course.
And, while you may not be able to perform all of the procedures in the illustration, the additional duties allowed by your certificate makes the EDDA more indispensable to the practice and gives the EDDA a greater sense of jobe satifaction and self-worth.
The Expanding Duties™ Concept was born!
When an additional chairside assistant is needed by the doctor, s/he will look within the practice for a promising EDDA first – Hygiene is a great place to find that assistant! The EDDA – Hygiene has several of the duties required to be EDDA – GP, but not all. Similarly, the EDDA-GP-Lite assistant may need to be promoted to EDDA-GP+Scanning.
Dr Joe Hair and Expanded Duties LLC felt there should be some way to expand the assistant’s knowledge and skill set without having to repeat all of the previously certified duties in a stock course.
And, while you may not be able to perform all of the procedures in the illustration, the additional duties allowed by your certificate makes the EDDA more indispensable to the practice and gives the EDDA a greater sense of jobe satifaction and self-worth.
The Expanding Duties™ Concept was born!
The Advance to GP Course would be taken by the assistant holding either the EDDA – Hygiene or EDDA – Hygiene + Ortho Scanning certificate.
- The EDDA – Hygiene would advance to EDDA – GP status.
- The EDDA – Hygiene + Ortho Scanning would advance to EDDA – GP + Ortho Scanning status.
The Advance to GP+ Course would be taken by the assistant holding the EDDA – Hygiene certificate.
- The EDDA – Hygiene would advance to EDDA – GP + Ortho Scanning.
The GP-Lite to GP+Scanning Course would be taken by the EDDA-GP-Lite assistant.
- The EDDA-GP-Lite would advance to EDDA – GP + Scanning.
The Original Courses Update is offered to add useful Expanded Duties not available at the time of the original courses. The 3 duties are impressions for retainers, intra-oral scanning and vital signs. The Board would not change the 4-hour rule, so we can’t teach just those three. Dr Hair had some assistants in this situation, and he had them take the EDDA-Ortho course which gives enough course length to satisfy the Board, In this instance, a regular Expanded Duties Course is used as an Expanding Duties™ Course.
Duties allowed to be performed by an Expanded Duties Assistant