Vet Nurse Courses

This free learning series is suitable for vet nurses and covers the maintenance and use of anaesthetic equipment including the difference between rebreathing and non-rebreathing circuits, choosing the correct circuit to use and the importance of leak testing our equipment.

Local anaesthesia techniques have grown in popularity and are now an important part of anaesthesia in small-animal veterinary medicine.  Veterinary nurses are key in delivering an array of applications of local anaesthesia, working within the RCVS Code for Professional Conduct. In this...

Veterinary visits can be challenging for even the most passive of cats, as well as for their owners. Fractious behaviour is one possible indicator of emotional challenges and can make it difficult for the practice team to accurately assess and treat the cat, while also increasing the potential for...

Anaesthesia and analgesia is an important area within a nurses role where protocols constantly need to be reviewed and updated to further your knowledge. This learning series with Claire Woolford offers a comprehensive overview so that anaesthesia can be planned and tailored to each patient as...

In this free learning series for vets and vet nurses, Martha Cannon explains the advantages and disadvantages of using naso-oesophageal tubes as a method of assisted feeding in cats, demonstrates how to place them and discusses their care and maintenance.

This course explores the most common presentations that we encounter in Practice: vomiting and diarrhoea. Gastrointestinal disease is a major cause of patient admittance to the hospital, with a proportion of patients requiring advanced and intensive nursing care. A veterinary nurse’s...

A five-part lecture series for nurses delivered by Paul Aldridge. Schedule 3 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act allows registered veterinary nurses to perform acts of minor surgery under veterinary supervision. This learning series gives an introduction to the typical procedures covered by this...

This learning series with Lisa Pearce and Clare Potts is aimed at nurses with an interest in all aspects of orthopaedic surgical nursing, from theatre through to recovery or those wishing to improve their knowledge as a scrubbed assistant. It aims to refresh your knowledge of surgical...

Nurses deal with wounds every day in practice, from surgical incisions to traumatic wounds presented in an emergency, and they can be rewarding cases if managed correctly. Wound management requires a good knowledge of the stages of wound healing to ensure accurate assessment and the appropriate...

A five-part learning series with Nicola Lakeman. Veterinary nurses are perfectly placed to manage the nutritional requirements of inpatients, as well as give valuable advice to increasingly-confused clients about what they should actually be feeding their pets. Beginning by looking at how to...