Miss Niamh Clancy
Dip AVN (SA) DipHE CVN DipVN PGCert VetEd FHEA RVN
Teaching Fellow in veterinary nursing, Veterinary Nurse (Anaesthesia)
Department: Clinical Science and Services
Clinical Groups: Small Animal Anaesthesia
Niamh is a Teaching Fellow for the School of Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College, she is also an anaesthesia nurse at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. She is the Deputy Co-Course Director for the Certiifcates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing and is the leader for the anaesthesia modules in both the undergraduate and post graduate nursing courses offered by the RVC.
Niamh graduated from University College Dublin in 2011 with her Diploma in Veterinary Nursing. Shortly after, she moved to the UK and worked in hospitals across London. She went on to obtain her Advanced Diploma in Veterinary Nursing in 2015 and a Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Education in 2018. She joined the RVC in 2013 as a theatre nurse at the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital. In 2016 she joined the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals an an anaesthesia nurse. As of September 2017 became a clinical educator in anaesthesia for the veterinary nursing school at the RVC. Following on from this she was given the oppertunity to take a secondment from her clincial role to create the anaesthesia designation for the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing. Following the sucessful completion of this she took a role as a Teaching Fellow at the School for Veterinary Nursing and is the Deputy Co-Course Director for the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing, the module leader for the anaethesia designation of the CertAVN, and module leader for the undergraduate anaesthesia module. In 2023, Niamh became the editor and contributor to The Veterinary Nurses Practical Guide to Anaesthesia, a textbook published through Wiley Blackwell.
Clancy, N (ed) (2023) The Veterinary Nurses' Practical Guide to Small Animal Anaesthesia. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2020) “Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 3: The Post-Anaesthetic Period” VNJ 35 (1) pp.16-18.
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2019) “ Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 1: The Pre-Anaesthetic Period”. VNJ 34(6) pp. 146-150.
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2019) “Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 2: The Peri-Anaesthetic Period”. VNJ 34(10) pp.260-265.
Clancy. N. (2016) “Early Neutering in Cats with the Use of the Quad Anaesthetic Protocol” VNJ, 31 (3) pp. 76-78.
Clancy, N. & Hoy, C. (2016) “How to Manage a Diffuclt Airway” The Veterinary Nurse, 7 (8) pp. 478- 484.
Niamh has spoken at the BVNA congress in 2021 and 2022. She has spoken at London Vet Show in 2019 and at BSAVA congress in 2023.
Niamh is currently the module leader in anaesthesia for the FdSc and BSc nursing courses here at the RVC. She is also the module leader for the anaesthesia pathway of the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing. Niamh enjoys teaching practical anaesthesia skills and a systematic approach to complications that can arrise when monitoring general anaesthesia.
She is also involved in the training of the BVetMed and veterinary nursing students when on clinical placement in the Queen Mother Hospital for animals.
Niamh has been an anaesthesia nurse at The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals since 2016.