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Tag: Hygiene

  • Managing workloads

    Managing workloads

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    It’s 2023. I’m most likely closer to my date of dying then I am to my date of birth. This doesn’t terrify me, but what does scare me is the fact I seem to be “growing up”. How did this happen? Can I reverse it? Can I get a refund? I’m sure many of you…

  • It’s never the owner’s knickers, part 1

    It’s never the owner’s knickers, part 1

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    I start with the proposed title for my memoirs, which may never be written as I do have this blog to share my life stories – but the idea and title are there for when I feel the urge. Anyway, let’s get back to the knickers… We all know that after surgery for a foreign…

  • From blog to where?

    From blog to where?

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    Following on from my little nostalgia tour, which I started when I hit my 10th anniversary writing for Vet Times, I thought I might give you a look at what happens after my blogs are published… Some blogs created some extra interest or led to other things; others provoked letters to Vet Times, comments on…

  • Cultural differences

    Cultural differences

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    No matter how much I try to persuade him otherwise, Prof Edward Coleman is insistent that he uses an indoor litter tray. Cat litter now makes up about 50% of the contents of my bin each week. I recall it being much the same when in practice with the added bulk of non-clumping litter and…

  • How are new grads coping with COVID?

    How are new grads coping with COVID?

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    As we all know, in March 2020 the world came to a grinding halt… and ever since the veterinary profession has been adapting accordingly. For those who have worked throughout, it has been a whirlwind of changing goalposts and new protocols, with advice seemingly changing on a daily basis. For veterinary students who have not…

  • Practice in practices makes perfect, in practice…

    Practice in practices makes perfect, in practice…

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    In a world currently filled with sacrifice and compromise, the cancellation of a week’s EMS over the Easter holidays did not, at first glance, seem like a hardship. Of course I had been looking forward to my first ever farm-practice placement – especially as only a week or so before I had tried my hand…

  • You got a friend in me

    You got a friend in me

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    Over the past three years, I’ve found one of the hardest parts about revising at home over the holidays isn’t actually the fact you’re revising at home, but that you’re not revising back at university. Now let me explain, because I know it sounds odd… Why would anyone not want to go home for the…

  • 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…

  • New vet schools are not the solution

    New vet schools are not the solution

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    We’ve barely had a day of news in the past year that didn’t include Brexit. Yet, do any of us really know what the real consequences will be? Within the veterinary profession, specific factors are undoubtedly going to be influenced by Brexit, even if we don’t know the extent of these yet. They do, however,…

  • 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…