Are you returning to Small Animal Practice after a career break or maternity / paternity leave and feeling a bit out of touch? Or perhaps you’re just looking to refresh your clinical nursing knowledge? This mini-series will help you regain your confidence and bring you right up to date with key areas of small animal nursing. We will cover emergency medicine, anaesthetic nursing and managing pain in our veterinary patients. Depart from this course with the confidence, knowledge and skills that you need to thrive in today’s small animal practices.

• Join Paula Hill RVN VTS Anaesthesia Analgesia and Nicola Waring BSc (Hons) CVN RVN Dip CVN Dip AVN Dip Ed QTLS Specialist Anaesthesia / Surgical nurse for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to download
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!

Programme

What you’ll learn:

• The importance of monitoring patients under anaesthesia
• Common problems in anaesthesia
• Respiratory monitoring
• Cardiovascular monitoring
• Recognition and troubleshooting problems under anaesthesia
• Recovery

CPR

What you’ll learn:

• Recognise the clinical signs in a patient in respiratory distress.
• Recognise clinical signs associated with specific respiratory diseases.
• Identify how to perform thoracic auscultation.
• Prepare for stabilisation of the respiratory patient.
• How should we be monitoring our patients in respiratory distress.
• Performing resection of everted laryngeal saccules
• How to manage the precarious recovery of patients after a respiratory collapse.
• What is the Recover campaign?
• Discuss causes of and how to identify a cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Identify what should be in your CPR crash cart and the roles of the resuscitation team.
• Understand the theory of basic life support and advanced Life Support.

Anaesthesia pharmacology & Pain assessment and using a multimodal approach to treating pain

What you’ll learn:

• Recap on the physiology and terminology associated with pain.
• Understand the importance of managing pain.
• Recognise the impact of pain if left untreated.
• Understand a multi-modal approach to pain.
• Recognise why should we use a pain scoring system?
• Evaluate the challenges of using a pain scoring system.
• Understand where to start when implementing a pain scoring system.
• Learn how to implement different acute and chronic pain scoring systems.
• Action, use and effects on the body systems of -Premedicant drugs, Induction drugs, Inhalation drugs and Analgesic drugs

The price includes all 3 sessions, notes and quiz – 8 hours of CPD

*No traffic jams, accommodation hassles, pet or childcare, rota clashes, locum fees ……….. just great CPD and a valuable ongoing resource.