Veterinary Nursing Refresher
Learn from scenarios that you’re likely to come across when you return to practice, or that you’re already experiencing. What is an appropriate sedation to obtain radiographs from a 3 month old puppy? You’re monitoring an anaesthetised patient – what is the capnography trace telling you? How do you safely and effectively obtain the radiograph that your vet has requested? What fluid rate should you use for a patient under anaesthesia? Your patient has no heart beat! What should you do first?
Leave this course with the confidence, knowledge and skills that you need to thrive in today’s small animal practices.
Upcoming Veterinary Nursing Refresher Dates:
What You'll Learn
- What does your anaesthetic monitor tell you?
- Drugs currently used for sedation, premedication & anaesthesia
- Practical Session: Anaesthetic machine & anaesthetic circuit checks
- Is your anaesthetic machine ready to use?
- Does your anaesthetic circuit have a leak?
- Practical Session: Clinical skills
- How to place an intravenous catheter
- How to choose and apply the correct blood pressure cuff
- How to attach a patient to an ECG
- Fluid therapy during the perioperative period to improve outcomes
- Practical Session: Radiography positioning
- Practical skills to obtain a diagnosis
- Orthopaedic/abdominal/thoracic positioning
- Emergency Procedures: GDV, Caesarean Sections, Respiratory Emergencies
- Practical Session: CPR & RECOVER Clinical Guidelines
- The principles of CPCR
- The RECOVER campaign
- Why has cardiac / respiratory arrest occurred?
- Basic ECG interpretation
- The resuscitation team – how to manage a CPCR team
- How to perform effective CPCR
What Our Delegates Say...
After a break from my nursing career, this was the perfect refresher to give me confidence to apply for jobs as an RVN. Being reintroduced to up to date methods of anaesthesia CPCR, emergency care and fluid therapy has given me a great foundation to work on. The speakers on this course were approachable and very knowledgeable, answering everyone’s questions, no matter what they were.
Minnie Tackman RVN
Upcoming Veterinary Nursing Refresher Dates: