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Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting: Licensure and Certification Prep

What's Next?

What will I need after my classes are done and I have my degree?

Professional certification and/or licensure is the next step to qualify for the job you want.  What can the library provide for me to make that step successfully? 

Erwin Library provides both print and electronic resources (all database links in this guide are also available on any WCC Single Search Results page in the Select Database Links area)   

  • Study Guides - print books on library shelves, interactive database sites, and ebooks in library databases    
  • Test prep books - print books on library shelves, and ebooks in library databases
  • Online practice exams

BoardVitals available from the North Carolina Community College System through STAT!Ref - an interactive, high-quality, effective and powerful board review tool that can be used by practicing clinicians, residents and several types of healthcare students. It allows for decreased study time, with everything organized under one platform and the best questions to study listed up front. With BoardVitals, you have the ability to create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources. BoardVitals contains the very best questions brought together from the leading medical publishers, research institutions and practicing clinicians.  Find out how to create your own account and login to it in the box below.

PrepSTEP - includes practice tests, exam preparation eBooks, and other resources to help prepare you for certification exams; see how to search this database in the box below.

BoardVitals Website

PrepSTEP

PrepSTEP

  • Find practice tests, exam preparation eBooks, and other resources to help prepare you for certification exams
  • Save your practice exam results when you Register for a free personal account
  • To find a practice test, guide or tutorial, either search by a test name or occupation: in this example, "dental assisting exam"

  • Click on a practice test or study guide link
  • Remember you will need to have your personal account login to open the item and begin using it

  • Or, click on a general focus area to open a drop-down menu of options, in this example Career Preparation
  • Further narrow your search using the drop-down menu, in this example Prepare for an Occupation Exam

  • Then, select your career exam area, in this example Allied Heath
  • And choose the specific exam you wish to study for, in this example Prepare for Dental Assisting Certification

  • Note that the item consists of an eBook study guide

  • Follow the prompt to Login, or Register

  • Download this pdf file of the complete eBook

  • Note the eBook features two full practice exams

 

BoardVitals - Free Student Registration

Board Exam Prep Tool

The North Carolina Community College System has access to BoardVitals, a high-quality, effective and powerful exam review tool. You have access to test banks to help prepare for the NCLEX RN, NCLEX PN, NBDHE, NBSTSA Surgical Technology Board Exam and ARRT Radiography Board Exam.:

  • WCC Students click here to Register at BoardVitals (free) to set up your own account,to which you can then login again at any time
  • Use only a WCC Student Email Account ending in "student.waynecc.edu" for your registration
  • WCC Faculty may request an individual account to be set up for Faculty Admin Access by contacting the Erwin Library at wcc-library@waynecc.edu:
    • Provide your Name and WCC Email Address
    • When your account is set up by STAT!Ref, you will be able to ‘create and send’ exams to your students as well as track usage
    • You will receive an email confirming your account is active

BoardVitals - Login

Click here to access the BoardVitals Login area using only your personal account's WCC Student Email address and Password (that you chose for yourself) when you registered with BoardVitals: