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Veterinary Nursing – Those Were the Days !
• Kathy Kissick VNC Vice Chair
• 1908 – 2016
• Not just 50 years of celebration
1844 RCVS Formed – Royal Charter
Veterinary Practice Recognised as aProfessionCoat of Arms granted
1908 Canine Nurses Institute
1913 RuislipDogSanatorium
Canine Nurse Institute• Trained by VS on caring for dogs• Kept them and nursed them in their rooms• Salary 25 shillings per week• Plus room and board and travelling• Equates to £1.25
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
Be careful of exclusion of studentswho will be excellent all round nurses.
1938 - Mrs Florence Bell RVC Head Nurse
Empathy and Advocacy for Animals
1961- ANA Nursing started1962 – first ANA examinations in
September
1965 BVNA inaugurated
1966 BVNA changed Name to BANAA
Nurse Title Protected for human nurses
Protecting the Title 2016
Sewell & Cousins VS
• Veterinary surgeons beginning to take interest in additional help in the surgeries
• Contacted the RCVS for formal recognition of veterinary nurses
• RCVS rejected this initiative
Establishment of VNs
• Concerns raised by VS in Veterinary Record• Getting above our station• Wanted to be mini vets
• Mini vets ?
Judy comic 1969 & Debbie Comic 1982
Jean Turner RANA 1971
Antibiotics
Anaesthesia
Pharmaceutical companies
Pet InsuranceAnalgesia
Preventative Treatments
Vaccinations
Analgesia
Nutrition
Bandaging
Me !!! 1983
Registered Animal Nursing Auxiliary
1984 BVNA renamed
Nursing title no longer protected for human nurses only
Veterinary Nurse Certificate 1984
Nursing in the 1980s
Nursing in the 1980s
TV Influences
CAW students – back in time
Most VNs started at an Early Age
Stereotyping
Very few male Veterinary NursesUntil 1990s
1977 male human centred nurses allowed onto register
Demand led to College Training
BictonBerkshireMyerscough 1975Rodbaston
1 year in practice before College
Day / blocks and evening classes
Few Text books
Reliant on textbooks written by VS
Reliant on teaching by VS
Jones Animal Nursing
Guidance Booklets
•Preliminary and final examinations – Credit if 75% in all sections•Examined by VS•Long essay questions•Short answer•Practical vivas each year and tasks•Spotter test•Then NVQ and MCQ examinations
Examinations 1999
Past papers & Syllabus
BVNA over the Generations
Pre Veterinary Nursing late 1980s
BSAVA Started to Develop VN Textbooks
Meeting the Needs of The VN
Larger Range of Textbooks
VN – RVN – Dip AVN
Equine Veterinary Nursing 1990s
1991 - onwards
• VSA 1966 amended to incorporate Schedule 3 Tasks
• Dip AVN 1980s with BVNA• Graduate programmes in 1990s• HE Dip – Dip AVN in 2000 +• 2012 VN Declaration incorporated into
admissions along with new Code of Conduct
VN Council
• The RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council was established in 2002 and replaced the Veterinary Nurses Committee.
• It has overall responsibility for all matters concerning veterinary nurse training, post-qualification awards and the registration of qualified veterinary nurses.
Educate our Clients
Educate our Prospective Students
Nurses are Nurses are Nurses!
Mini Vets ?
Or Maxi Nurses ?
Advocates for our Patients
BVNA Still Needs All Our Support
VNC Needs Your Support• Six veterinary nurses are contesting two places in this year’s VN
Council elections, all of whom are new candidates. They are:• Mrs Stacey Bullock RVN• Miss Racheal Marshall RVN• Mrs Wendy Nevins RVN• Mr Matthew Rendle RVN• Mrs Samantha Thompson RVN• Miss Helen Tottey RVN• Ballot papers and candidates’ details are due to be posted to all
veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses eligible to vote during the week commencing 14 March, and all votes must be cast, either online or by post, by 5pm on Friday, 29 April 2016.
Huge Opportunities for VNs
Always Important
Like to Think I have Done This
Me Now
My Home Now