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Surgical skills and theatre practice for Diagnostic imaging techniques online Recorded Webinar Series: Approach to Emergency and critical care nursing online
veterinary nurses online for nurses wildlife casualties in practice Monday 29th September to Sunday 9th November
Monday 9th June to Sunday 20th July Monday 8th September to Sunday 19th October Recorded webinars with a live Q&A on NEW The phone rings and an emergency is on its way down to the clinic. Are
Monday 22nd September you and the team prepared?
Are you up-to-date with current surgical nursing practices? Would you Do you want to know more about diagnostic imaging techniques for small
like to improve your surgical skills? animals and play a vital role in supporting a range of diagnostic imaging Do you see wildlife casualties in practice and wish you had more Many nurses find emergency work challenging and overwhelming, but it
can be exhilarating and rewarding with a good team and forward thinking.
Nurses have a key role in preparing patients for surgery as well as procedures in your workplace? knowledge of these species? Would you like to feel more confident with This course is aimed at qualified veterinary nurses who wish to expand
caring for them in the post-operative period. This course will refresh This course is aimed at nurses wishing to extend their knowledge, handling, triage and decision making? and further their knowledge of working with emergency and critical
your knowledge on surgical nursing practices, from patient and theatre increase their role and responsibility in radiography and improve their Wildlife casualties are frequently presented for emergency veterinary care patients. The course will refresh your knowledge of specific key
preparation to postoperative care. It will also cover key surgical principles diagnostic imaging techniques. Through the activities in the course, you care, and decision making and the approach to these cases can areas including preparation of the clinic and team, common emergency
in the context of Schedule 3 nursing techniques. Emphasis will be placed will gain skills and knowledge to apply critical appraisal of radiography be challenging. This series of webinars aims to help clinicians build presentations and how to nurse the hospitalised critical patient. The key
on the inter-professional practice of the veterinary team working toward procedures and promote reflective and evidence-based practice. confidence in their management of wildlife cases from species elements of each topic will be discussed so that you can take ideas and
a common goal. Topics will be fully discussed using forums for us all to identification and triage through to stabilisation and treatment of common tips away to implement in your clinic.
learn from each other and to allow you to develop methods that can be Course details presentations. It is suitable for both experienced and new graduate vets
practically applied. Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18 and nurses. Course details
Course details Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £359 Course details Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18
Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18 Tutors Course type: Recorded webinars CPD hours: Up to 7 Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £359
Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £399 Lindsey Berriman BSc Radiography PGCertVetEd FHEA, with live Q&A Course fee: £209 Tutors
Head Veterinary Radiographer, RVC Course length: 6 hours of recorded
Tutors Ashley Moors FdSc GradDipVN PGCertVetEd RVN FHEA, lectures plus 1 hour for Q&A Eleanor Haskey BSc VTS(ECC) VPAC A1 PGCertVetEd RVN FHEA,
Lyndsay Wade MRes BSc PGCertVetEd RVN FHEA, Veterinary Radiographer, RVC ECC Veterinary Nurse, RVC
Freelance Veterinary Nursing Educator Tutor Daina Rawlings BSc VNCertECC VTS(ECC) RVN,
Alison Young DipAVN (Surgery) VTS (Surgery) RVN, Vicki Baldrey BVSc BSc DZooMed (Avian) MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Head Nurse, WECare Worldwide, Sri Lanka
Clinical Operations Manager, RVC Exotic Species and Small Mammal Medicine and Surgery, RVC

Webinar Plus: Nursing abroad Let’s get physical – practical Haematology and cytology for Small animal endocrine nursing online
Monday 30th June to NEW physiotherapy and rehabilitation online veterinary nurses Monday 29th September to
Sunday 20th July for nurses Monday 22nd September to Sunday 9th November
In love with nursing but not your location? Want to travel and not be Monday 8th September to Sunday 19th October Sunday 2nd November Do you find nursing patients with endocrine disease complicated? Have
broke? Join this course to get the inside scoop on nursing abroad! Would you like to be able to provide invaluable nurse support to difficulty remembering the different disease pathways? Confused by the
Join us on this 3-week course if you want a jump start on the next big Are you aware of the benefits physiotherapy can have for patients haematology and cytology cases in your practice? tests and reasons for clinical decisions that the vets are making?
step in your career and a guide on how to apply your skills in different postoperatively and for conservative management of injuries? Do you As nurses, our focus is to learn to care for patients with a range
countries. You’ll learn from my mistakes and save yourself time, stress and want to understand the different types of rehabilitation techniques that The ever-widening availability of in-house haematology analysers have of diseases. It is often expected that we can do so without fully
money – this is the cheat code you’ve been waiting for! You’ll hear some are available for your patients? Would you like to broaden the services brought about a gap in knowledge of blood smear examination, which is understanding the pathophysiology of those diseases, or the reasons
of my crazy stories and be able to decide if it’s all really worth it. you can offer to your clients? essential for the reliable and safe use of these machines in the veterinary behind the treatments the veterinary surgeon chooses. Endocrinology is
In this course, you will learn the basics of physiotherapy, the different practice. Veterinary nurses can provide invaluable benefit to the veterinary one of the medical topics that many of us do not have the time to study to
Course details techniques that can be used and useful equipment that can assist you practice by being able to perform an efficient blood smear examination, the level that we need to understand it sufficiently. We may therefore be
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 9 in practice. We will also discuss indications and contraindications of which can validate the in-house analysis, detect key abnormalities (that less able to provide the gold standard care we would like to our patients
physiotherapy and hydrotherapy. the machines can’t), and flag potential need for expert review. Nurses with endocrine disease.
Course length: 3 weeks Course fee: £249 can also provide great help to perform cytological examination of This course will refresh your knowledge of key endocrine disease
Tutor Course details lumps, bumps, organs, fluids, from collection to smear preparation to pathophysiology, diagnostic tests and nursing care to help bridge the gap
microscopic examination and/or submission to external laboratories.
Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18 between ‘what we do’ and ‘why we do it’. This will allow us to recognise
Daina Rawlings BSc VNCertECC VTS(ECC) RVN, Head Nurse, Any practice that uses automated haematology analysers needs a person
WECare Worldwide, Sri Lanka Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £359 to cross check blood smears – this course is designed to train you to be deterioration, unexpected clinical signs or behaviours and moderate our
nursing appropriately.
Tutors that unmissable nurse of the practice.
Holly Smith DipAVN (Surgical) RVN Level 3 Hydrotherapy, Course details Course details
Head Nurse Neurology and Rehabilitation, RVC Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18 Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 18
Helen Webb GradDipVN RVN Level 3 Hydrotherapy, Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £359 Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £359
Senior Nurse Neurology and Rehabilitation, RVC Tutor
Tutors
Barbara Glanemann DrMedVet DipECVIM PGDipVetEd FHEA MRCVS, Gina Parkes DipAVN (Small animal) PGCertVetEd RVN FHEA,
Head Medicine Nurse, RVC
Associate Professor in Small Animal Medicine, RVC
Balázs Szladovits DVM DipACVP PGDipVetEd FHEA MRCVS,
Associate Professor in Clinical Pathology, RVC