Tag: salary
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10 years: a decade of Davidson
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2022 is bringing up lots of 10 year anniversaries: The London Olympics Keeping up with the Kardashians began My first blogs for Vet Times Yes, 10 years ago I was on Twitter as @JaneRVN and was already using #PlanetRVN when a certain digital editor from Vet Times slid into my DMs… before that was even…
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Accessibility to veterinary medicine, part 2: attracting students
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So why is the veterinary profession struggling to attract students from underprivileged backgrounds? Whether it has anything to do with economical geography or not, many vets will tell the same story – they were told repeatedly during their childhood and teenage years that they would never make it as a vet and to pick another…
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Commonly held beliefs that don’t do us any good, pt 4
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Belief #4: A career in veterinary science doesn’t pay well Compared to many other professions, veterinary science is not what you would call a high performer on the salary front. Depending on who you ask, vet wages fall somewhere between that of a plumber and a hat rack. But is this always true? Here’s a…
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Four-day working week
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As a private sector service, veterinary – despite many businesses being under corporate ownership – still varies widely from practice to practice. This includes, of course, the omnipotent “rota”. The hours a vet would be expected to work are completely dependent on the practice – and often the individual, too. With part-time work and job…
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Disillusionment
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“Have we had the suicide talk?” I was 16 or 17, seeing practice at my local vets’, as I did every Thursday evening. One of the vets would often fill gaps in consults by grilling me on the ins and outs of the profession, but this topic had not been covered before. When I blinked…
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The value of a nurse: putting a number on it
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I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard anecdotally about the value of vet nurses to the vet team. This is always nice to hear; whether it’s about me or vet nurses as a whole, it’s heart-warming to hear – but does that pay the bills? For some reason, while we are getting…
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Online vet grad bashing
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I’m generally a big fan of the various vet-related Facebook groups – they provide a less formal way to keep in touch with veterinary news, while offering a wealth of information from numerous different types of people across the profession. In minutes, a post looking for opinions can offer a “thousand ways to skin a…
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New locum matching service unveiled
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A service is being launched to help practices across the UK fill their locum job vacancies in minutes. Locum Vet Finder (LVF) has been designed to help solve some of the problems created by a recruitment crisis that has left hundreds of practices struggling with unfilled locum vacancies. Based on an innovative technology platform that…
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Perks of the job
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I always thought it would be a rewarding job. That was one of the reasons for doing it, after all. I don’t mean financially – although, when I was training, I thought the money would be nice, because everyone knows vets do alright, don’t they? After I qualified and calculated the hours I worked compared…
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Asking for it…
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Original or primary vet nursing research is moving on in leaps and bounds. This is amazing, both for us and for our patients. Not surprisingly, there has been a rise in people sharing their surveys for assignments and dissertations on social media to gather information and data. However, working with data means complying with a…