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GENERAL NEWS

CertAVN graduation group

to organisations providing treatment for our Anaesthesia and Analgesia and patient and staff behaviour in action.
animals with cancer. The future holds Emergency and Critical Care pathways. There were lots of standout and innovative
great promise for VNs with a keen The RVC’s CertAVN teaching team projects, which will improve the welfare of
interest in oncology, and under Nicola’s has been recognised with an RCVS patients under our care.
guidance, their path ahead is sure to be QI Knowledge Champion Award Our congratulations go to all the students
filled with exciting prospects.
for integrating quality improvement for their hard work, as well as to everyone
initiatives into the CertAVN learning who supported them along the way.
and assessment activities. This award As part of our commitment to contribute
acknowledges the course team’s to VN knowledge and evidence base,
dedication to developing our students’ watch this space for conference
competence and confidence in quality presentations and publications of our
assurance activities, including teaching students’ research in the coming months.
them to write up Knowledge Summaries
and conduct and document their clinical
audits. Moreover, Sam McGaw, who
graduated with her CertAVN this year,
received the runner-up RCVS Knowledge
Award for the clinical audit she conducted
during her CertAVN studies.
Textbooks, articles and
public speaking
Nicola Read (right) and Sarah Holiday,
Oncology Nurse Specialist, Aura Our Veterinary Nurses have been
Veterinary (left) extremely busy this year, writing
and disseminating VN knowledge
Post-registration CertAVN and evidence.
courses go from strength School of Veterinary Nursing team
to strength members; Hilary Orpet, Evie Yon,
This summer, we celebrated the Perdi Welsh, Sarah Batt-Williams,
graduation of our first cohort of RVNs Lyndsay Wade, and Hamish Morrin,
who undertook our Graduate and authored chapters in the newly
Postgraduate Certificates in Advanced published textbook Professionalism
Veterinary Nursing (CertAVN). Amongst and Reflection in Veterinary Nursing
them, RVC Clinical Educator and by Wiley Blackwell in 2022.
Neurology RVN, Ilaria Vercesi, won first The Veterinary Nurse’s Practical Guide
prize for achieving the highest marks. Undergraduate VN
students shine to Small Animal Anaesthesia, also
In response to the tremendous success In the summer, we were thrilled by the published by Wiley Blackwell this year,
and high demand of the first two years of impressive research output and poster was edited and authored by Niamh
running this course, we have doubled our presentations from our fourth year VN Clancy, QMHA Anaesthesia RVN and
intake numbers. Teaching Fellow. In addition, anaesthesia
students. Their projects covered a diverse
In May, we were delighted to welcome range of research studies, with students RVN colleagues Ana Costa, Ioan Holban,
our first cohort of CertAVN students working in laboratories, undertaking Lisa Angell, and Carol Hoy also authored
undertaking the new Medical Nursing retrospective analysis of clinical data, chapters in the book, and Carol Hoy
pathway, which we now offer alongside surveying the profession and observing provided all the illustrations.

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