Celebrate Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month with us!

Many of you have seen our display and decorations in our waiting room celebrating Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month! Why are we celebrating this? And what does VNAM18 mean? Outside of the consulting room, most of the attention and medical care your pet receives is at the hands of a veterinary nurse.

It is this we celebrate each May, as Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month (VNAM) gives us an opportunity to talk about our role in caring for your pets. In any given day a veterinary nurse may find themselves taking x-rays, medicating patients, doing consults, maintaining equipment, monitoring anaesthetics, dressing wounds, answering phones, running nursing clinics and the list goes on!

The title “Veterinary Nurse” is not yet protected in law (scarily meaning anyone can use it), but it is advised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons that it should be taken to mean only Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVNs).

Jurassic Vets is proud to employ RVN's,as RVN's have undertaken a rigorous training programme, sat examinations, and are subject to a Code of Conduct, which includes a disciplinary process if a grievance should arise. They undergo continued study, and log professional development hours to maintain our Registration throughout their careers. Some RVNs undertake specialist training in a range of topics, especially the care of exotic pets, feline medicine, anaesthesia and dentistry. There are several different routes to becoming a veterinary nurse from the diploma to a degree. The BVNA can provide you advice on the career and studying, if you are interested in pursuing this career.