Veterinary nurses - true professionals

A short film animation to raise awareness of the vital role played by veterinary nurses in the care and treatment of animals, and to encourage support for our campaign to protect the title 'veterinary nurse'.
For more information, and to find out how you can help, please visit our website at www.rcvs.org.uk/vntitle

[@LuisSantos-gn2gp]

This would be a great video, if it didn't fail to acknowledge male veterinary nurses.

[@therespectedlex9794]

The first picture isn't very representative of men in the profession. Still, no point complaining like a bunch of women.

[@daniluzayadiolumiere1206]

Sarted 24 mins ago.next story 2.03pm

[@harre037]

@melopsicodelia who doesn’t think we train enough to deserve to be called a nurse.... Lovely 😊. We are nurses, we have the same qualities as you to care for our patients. We study everything other health care professionals do, I’m a dental nurse, an anaesthetist, a ward nurse, a surgical nurse, a paediatric nurse, a midwife, a pharmacology, a medical nurse, an intensive care nurse, physiotherapist, behaviourist, a nutritionist .... get the pattern? I know the anatomy of a wide range of animal such as cats, dogs, snakes, horses, hamsters, rabbits, birds, hedgehogs. They all have different anatomies and are treated differently. I have to remember every aspect of nursing care and for each one of their life stages. And they are all completely different. I carried out 1800 practical training hours minimum on top of my uni course and 4yrs to get where I am and continue professional development to ensure I can perform the highest medical care for my patients. We are in every aspect a nurse just as you are. I think you need to carry out your research again because you are very wrong. Very very wrong

[@davidcgriffiths]

So why are none qualified people carrying out anasetics and other procedures in some practices. Makes a nonsense of the register and qualification statements and standards.

[@melopsicodelia]

When I check the meaning of nursing is a health professional who goes to university for 4 to 5 years, to work with humans. Someone who studied microbiology, human anatomy, human physiology, psychology, infectology, mental health, pharmacology, epidemiology, nutrition, psychopathology, and every single pathology per age, etc, plus hundreds of hours in clinical practice in hospital, in every single area of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, mental health, ICU, anesthesiology, etc. This vet nurses and dental nurses are just ridiculous, I think is disrespectful to the profession (actual nurses) trying to appropriate the profession like that is terrible, why not vet tech? Like in most countries. Not saying your profession is not important, because obviously It is, but is clearly far from the same, I just dislike the wrong usage of the word because you are not a nurse. And trying to compare and actual nurse with a vet tech was just delusional.

[@harre037]

Lovely 😊. We are nurses, we have the same qualities as you to care for our patients. We study everything other health care professionals do, I’m a dental nurse, an anaesthetist, a ward nurse, a surgical nurse, a paediatric nurse, a midwife, a pharmacology, a medical nurse, an intensive care nurse, physiotherapist, behaviourist, a nutritionist .... get the pattern? I know the anatomy of a wide range of animal such as cats, dogs, snakes, horses, hamsters, rabbits, birds, hedgehogs. They all have different anatomies and are treated differently. I have to remember every aspect of nursing care and for each one of their life stages. And they are all completely different. I carried out 1800 practical training hours minimum on top of my uni course and 4yrs to get where I am and continue professional development to ensure I can perform the highest medical care for my patients. We are in every aspect a nurse just as you are. I think you need to carry out your research again because you are very wrong. Very very wrong.

[@emmamackay995]

To get into university to be a veterinary nurse requires BBBB to be a nurse who deals with humans and work for the NHS you only need BBC so we are actually more highly qualified - thanks tho 🤣🤣

[@melopsicodelia]

@@emmamackay995 BBBB, NHS? What are you talking about? Plus you are talking about *your* country, keep that in mind, in most countries vet nurses don't even exist, Thanks tho. 😉

[@emmamackay995]

@@melopsicodelia to get into university in Britain, you need higher grades to be a veterinary nurse than you do to be a human nurse, a veterinary nurse has just as much responsibility as a human nurse if not more , other countries such an Australia, America and many others have veterinary nurses - maybe the countries who don’t have them haven’t reached that stage in their development yet? To put things in perspective for you … I have a friend living in the same country as me in university studying to be a nurse like a human nurse during the covid pandemic they were simply told they could have open book exams so they could use their notes so basically not an exam, for my veterinary nurse exams it was just as strict as it would of been with/without covid and we had an online proctor system to ensure we didn’t cheat the testing is rigorous and to get into the profession in the first place isn’t easy, I’m insulted that you who clearly knows absolutely nothing about veterinary nurses thinks they have an opinion on weather they are actually nurses or not? Veterinary nurses have to learn all the same that a normal nurse would but for a variation of animals which are all very different, veterinary nurses can also perform minor surgery and can be involved in lab work, anaesthesia, wound care, nutritional care, administering medication etc etc etc the list goes on … until you do some research I think you should keep your opinion to yourself and lastly try walking into your local vets and telling the nurses or the support staff that they aren’t “nurses” and that they aren’t important ../ guarantee they could tell you otherwise

[@user-ik5do4tc8f]

drops every science course they’ve ever taken to sound special lol