The webinars will form part of Animalcare’s campaign to support veterinary professionals in making confident and practical recommendations to clients about caring for their pets’ teeth.
Practice group says course will equip mentors with additional skills to develop graduate vet students and student nurses into high-flying veterinary professionals.
New postgraduate and graduate certificates in advanced veterinary medical nursing complement RVC’s existing post-registration qualifications in emergency and critical care, and anaesthesia and analgesia.
Emma Dever has juggled her management role with up to 20 hours a week of study, as well as helping to care for her father, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2021.
Charlotte Fennell from the Linnaeus-owned small animal hospital said it was an honour to have joined such a select group, and admitted the news of her success sparked tears of joy and relief.
Anne Ward, Lizzie Hackney, Robyn Lowe, Ciar Pembroke and Kirsty Cavill all received awards at the ceremony, held at the association’s annual congress in Telford (7 to 9 October).
A veterinary nurse who was given a court order more than two years ago following an incident on a flight to Turkey has now been dealt with by an RCVS panel.
College formally welcomes eight new overseas graduate vet surgeons and six new overseas-trained VNs on to their respective registers in an online event.
The post-registration programme supports RVNs entering referral practice and, in addition to the cohort increase, has also had its schedule updated to ensure attendees make best use of training time.
The RCVS DC has requested a Doncaster-based VN be removed from the register after she admitted falsifying a number of clinical records and holding herself out as an RVN, while not being registered.
The qualifications were launched in 2019 as the next achievable step for students who have completed their Level 3, choosing surgical, medical or practice nurse as their area of special interest.
