Ms Perdi Welsh
BSc (Hons), DipAVN (Surg), PGCertVetEd, FHEA, RVN
Director of School of Veterinary Nursing
Department: Clinical Science and Services
Campus: Hawkshead
Perdi is Director of Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College. She is a Principal Teaching Fellow and the Course Director for the RVC's suite of post registration Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing: the Graduate Certificates and Postgraduate Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing in Emergency & Critical Care, Anaesthesia & Analgesia and Medical Nursing.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-3029
Perdi qualified from the Royal Veterinary College’s Beaumont Sainsbury Animals Hospital in 1991. She then moved to the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital where she worked as a general staff nurse whilst studying for the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing in Surgery which she gained in 1994. During the same year, she was appointed as a nursing tutor for the new nursing school at the RVC and gained her Certificate in Education in 1996. She worked for a short time in Northern Ireland, helping to set up a small animal practice with her husband. At this time, she also helped to establish and run the first block-release veterinary nursing course in Northern Ireland.
In 2001, Perdi returned to England and continued to work as a lecturer in veterinary nursing and Senior Examiner for the RCVS VN examinations gaining her BSc (Hons) degree in Veterinary Nursing in 2003.
In 2004, she returned to the RVC to help set up the first veterinary Clinical Skills Centre in the UK. Perdi then took up a two year fellowship as Veterinary Skills Developer for the LIVE (Lifelong Independent Veterinary Education) project at the RVC, working on the development and production of the BVetMed Day One Skills. In 2007, she became Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing, setting up the Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing and in 2020, the Graduate Certificate and Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Nursing.
In 2023, Perdi became Director of Veterinary Nursing at the RVC.
Perdi is an Editor for The Veterinary Nurse, a monthly international peer-reviewed journal.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-3029
For publications and citations see also Perdi's Google Scholar profile
Yon, E., Welsh, P. and Morrin, H. (2022) The Professional RVN. In Professionalism and Reflection in Veterinary Nursing (eds S. Badger & A. Jeffery). Wiley Blackwell: Chichester.
Nelson, D. Welsh, P. (2015) Using the ability model to design and implement a patient care plan. The Veterinary Nurse 6(3): 141-149
Lee, J. Welsh, P. Whiting, M.(2013) Professional and legal issues: surgical misadventure. The Veterinary Nurse 4(8): 504-507
Webb, J. Welsh, P. Whiting, M. (2013) A case-based approach to professional and legal issues. The Veterinary Nurse 4(6): 358-362
Wager, C. Welsh, P. (2013) Veterinary nurses creating a unique approach to patient care: part two. The Veterinary Nurse 4 (9): 520-526
Welsh, P & Wager, C (2013) Veterinary nurses creating a unique approach to patient care: part one. The Veterinary Nurse 4 (8):452-459
Welsh, P & Bayliss, S (2012) Whistle-blowing explained: to be or not to be a whistle-blower, that is the question. The Veterinary Nurse.3 (2).
Kinnison T, Lumbis R, Orpet H, Welsh P, Gregory S, Baillie S (2012) How to run Talking Walls: an interprofessional education resource. The Veterinary Nurse 3 (1):4-11.
Kinnison T, Lumbis R, Orpet H, Welsh P, Gregory S, Baillie S (2011) Piloting Interprofessional Education Interventions with Veterinary and Veterinary Nursing Students. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 38(3)
Welsh P & Orpet H (2011) Writing Patient Care Reports; Authors Guidelines for VN’s (part 2). The Veterinary Nurse 2(3)
Welsh P & Orpet H (2011) Writing Patient Care Reports; Authors Guidelines for VN’s (part 1). The Veterinary Nurse 2(2)
Orpet H & Welsh P (2011) Handbook of Veterinary Nursing. 2nd Ed. Blackwell Science: Oxford
Welsh, PJ, Jones LM, May SA, Nunn PR, Whittlestone KD, Pead MJ. (2009) Approaches to defining day-one competency: a framework for learning veterinary skills. Rev Sci Tech. 2009 Aug;28(2):771-7.
Welsh, P. 2006. Techniques in: M Cannon & M Forster-van Hijfte, eds. 2006. Feline Medicine, A Practical Guide for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians. Edinburgh: Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann. Ch 5.
Welsh, P. 2003. VNs and the Law: what would you do?. Veterinary Nursing Journal. July, pp 117-120.
Orpet, H and Welsh, P. 2002. Handbook of Veterinary Nursing. Blackwell Science: Oxford.
Welsh, P. 2000. Intensive Care Case Study. Veterinary Nursing Journal. July.
Welsh, P. 1994. The VN and the Hospitalised Patient. Veterinary Practice Nurse Journal. Dec 1994
Perdi is the Course Director for the RVC's suite of post registration qualifications for Veterinary Nurses: the Graduate Certificates and Postgraduate Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing. She oversees the teaching and learning activities for these online, distance-learning courses. She is Module Leader for the Fundamentals in Advanced Veterinary Nursing Practice module. These coures related closely to Perdi's passion for professional development, particularly in equipping veterinary nurses with the theoretical and practical skills required of today's veterinary nursing practitioners. More recently, Perdi has developed a particular interest in the teaching, learning and assessment methods and strategies that work for the particular needs of distance-learners.
As part of the RVC's schools outreach programme, Perdi liaises with a local non-selective, mixed secondary school in North London to introduce career options available to students associated with the veterinary nursing and veterinary professions. Perdi contributes to a range of the RVC's Widening Participation and Outreach activities, such as the Easter and Summer School and student interviews.