What about the nurses?
- Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 177, Nº. 11, 2015, págs. 270-270
- Idioma: inglés
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HAVING so far focused mainly on veterinary surgeons, the RCVS/BVA Vet Futures project has this month rightly turned its attention to veterinary nurses (VNs). The project is looking at some of the challenges currently facing the veterinary profession with a view to developing a strategy for the future – and it would be difficult to imagine a future without veterinary nurses, who form a vital part of the veterinary team. In a thought-provoking blog on the Vet Futures website1, Laura Kidd, a veterinary surgeon, VN lecturer and clinical skills tutor for veterinary students, looks at some of the factors that might be contributing to an apparent shortage of VNs, and asks what might be done to increase the numbers entering and staying within the profession.
The blog, which has already attracted a number of comments, notes that, while RCVS figures indicate that the number of veterinary nurses is increasing each year, anecdotally there doesn't seem to be enough of them to meet demand. The 2014 RCVS Survey of the Veterinary Nurse Profession2, like similar surveys in 2010 and 2008, found that, despite veterinary nursing having been around for a long … [Full text of this article]
