Progression is Power: Unleash your Nursing Potential! 

2 Day In-Person CPD for Veterinary Nurses – 11 hours of CPD

Your ticket price includes lunch and three servings of tea or coffee on both days. Staff will be available to request water bottle refills.

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During this weekend, we will be looking at progression as a veterinary nurse and ways to enhance your role in practice! Lectures over this two-day event include developing your practice’s weight clinics, surgical nursing, transfusion medicine for the veterinary nurse and the use of ultrasound for veterinary nurses. We will also have anaesthesia sessions looking at ECG and Capnography, as well as a look into CPR.

Day 1 – Event Running Order:

Time	Session Title & Speaker	Speaker Bio & Session Synopsis	Session Sponsor
08:30	Welcome!
09:00-10:00	Progression as a Veterinary Nurse – Leona Anderson BSc(Hons), NCert(AnaesthNsg), MISAP, RVN	Progression as a Veterinary Nurse – Leona Anderson.pdf
10:15-11:45	Weight Consultations for the Veterinary Nurse Fi Marjoram C&GCertSAN CertCFVHNut BVNACertSAN	Weight Consultations for the Veterinary Nurse – Fi Marjoram.pdf
12:00-13:00	Surgical Nursing in General Practice – Leona Anderson BSc(Hons), NCert (AnaesthNsg), MISAP, RVN	Surgical Nursing in General Practice – Leona Anderson.pdf
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Haematology for the Veterinary Nurse – Katy Stewart (BVM&S MRCVS) & Isabel Macpherson BVMS MRCVS	Haematology for the Veterinary Nurse – Katy Stewart & Isabel Macpherson.pdf
14:45-15:45	Don’t sugar coat it! Nursing consultations for the diabetic patient – Lewis Knox RVN NCert (Medical Nursing) & Leona Anderson BSc(Hons), NCert(AnaesthNsg), MISAP, RVN	Don’t sugar coat it! Nursing consultations for the diabetic patient – Lewis Knox and Leona Anderson.pdf
16:00-17:00	Ultrasound for the Veterinary Nurse – Lucy Speak RVN, MSc Veterinary Physiotherapist, CertVNECC, MIRVAP, Canine hydrotherapist, Recover certified (ALS and BLS)	Ultrasound for the Veterinary Nurse- Lucy Speak .pdf

Day 2 – Event Running Order:

Time	Session Title & Speaker	Speaker Bio & Session Synopsis	Session Sponsor
09:00	Welcome!
09:30-10:30	As easy as ECG – Emma Smith RVN CertVNECC	As easy as ECG – Emma Smith.pdf
10:45-11:45	Just breathe – Capnography	Just Breathe – Capnography – Emma Smith.pdf
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Tackling Tricky Transfusions – Lewis Knox RVN NCert (Medical Nursing)	Tackling Tricky Transfusions – Lewis Knox .pdf
14:15-15:15	Triage-establishing the baseline – Samantha Thompson RVN GradDip VN CertVN ECC DET	Triage-establishing the baseline- Samantha Thompson .pdf
15:30-16:30	CPR- What’s new in ETCO2 and more – Samantha Thompson RVN GradDip VN CertVN ECC DET	CPR- What’s new in ETCO2 and more – Samantha Thompson .pdf

All sponsors will have an area in the room and be available with product examples, literature and to answer any questions.

The speakers will be bringing along some of their own educational literature and merchandise for sale. Please bring your bank card for any purchases.

BVNA Scotland Advocate:  Leona Anderson, BSc(Hons), MISAP, RVN Leona has worked in veterinary practice doing a variety of duties since the age of 14 and qualified as an RVN via the Level 3 City and Guilds diploma in November of 2018. Since qualifying she went back to university to complete her top-up degree in veterinary nursing. She currently works in a private mixed animal practice in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire. Leona loves learning and is always looking for the next area she can improve on! She enjoys all aspects of nursing, in particular medical management consultations such as diabetes management, wound management and dermatology, but also surgical nursing and diagnostic imaging. She has recently returned from a 6 month sabbatical with her partner where they travelled the world, visiting 12 different countries, which included working in Australia, Malaysia and Tanzania along the way; from locuming, to a conservation project with turtles, to shelter medicine. Since returning home she has started working towards her next goal which is a masters in Veterinary Physiotherapy.

If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact; [email protected]

Cancellation Policy

BVNA CPD Courses and Events CancellationPolicy.pdf