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  • Choose your own path

    Choose your own path

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    Life doesn’t come with a manual, more’s the pity. How much easier would it be if we were automatons, told exactly where to go and what to do? No big decisions to be made or uncertain futures to be faced. But then, there wouldn’t be any adventures either. With no guidebook, we have to choose…

  • Embrace change

    Embrace change

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    Change can be scary. But it can also be exhilarating, liberating and exciting – and it happens all the time. By the time you read this, for example, Harry and Meghan will have made one of the biggest changes possible by embarking on married life (read how some homeless hounds marked the occasion on page…

  • Beware of practice code breakers

    Beware of practice code breakers

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    While highly sought after by intelligence agencies, code breakers in the veterinary world aren’t always as sought after. This is great, as the code of conduct is not there to be broken – it’s an important written guidance and protects the title “veterinary nurse”. Under the section “Veterinary nurses and the profession”, point 3.5 states:…

  • Is a non-clinical RVN still an RVN?

    Is a non-clinical RVN still an RVN?

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    Let’s start off this new year with a “State of the Nation” review. After all, in the murky half-light of January it can sometimes feel sluggish and gloomy if you’re uncertain about things coming in the future. So, let’s banish these feelings (at least for a little while) – where are we now for RVNs?…

  • Schedule 3 – evidence of our role secured

    Schedule 3 – evidence of our role secured

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    As well as traditional Halloween high jinks, 31 October 2017 marked a truly happy day for veterinary nurses, as the RCVS published results of its survey into VNs and vets‘ knowledge and use of – as well as future wishes for – the VN role under Schedule 3. As the full document is more than…

  • Getting #VNFutures on the road

    Getting #VNFutures on the road

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    It’s been just over a year since I attended the #VNFutures launch day. A very nervous me turned up at the RVC in Camden with the great and the good of the vet world to hear about plans to improve all of our futures. The presentation from Liz Cox and Sam Morgan for the RCVS…

  • An abbreviation too far?

    An abbreviation too far?

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    We love an abbreviation in the veterinary world. CBA, RTA, TTA – just hopefully not all on the same patient, or all at the same time. To laypeople, medical notes must seem like another language. Therefore, it’s no surprise, when said laypeople request access to their records, that these notes rarely hold the answer. So…

  • Green is not the only colour

    Green is not the only colour

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    I’m in a bit of a rut – I’ll apologise for that now. There’s a bit of a theme coming out in my current writing; it’s all about our identity, or lack thereof, as seen from different viewpoints. I started digging into this subject at the beginning of the year (Are vet nurses hidden in…

  • Never off duty

    Never off duty

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    And lo it came to pass, it was Bank Holiday Monday – the extra Bank Holiday for Easter, creating the dreaded four-day holiday weekend. Dreaded? Yes, for veterinary staff. For those nine to five office workers it’s a joyful break from their poop-free work places, but not so for us. We toil – whatever the…

  • Pet hunting criteria – am I neurotic?

    Pet hunting criteria – am I neurotic?

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    It’s been suggested to me recently some of my attitudes to owning a pet might be a bit “weird”. As I have written in previous blogs about Hollie, Little Blue (LB) and general pet ownership issues, you might agree. You might already have thought this. I don’t really mind. I know I’m a little special…