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New Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum

The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has, this week, launched a new Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum (OVAM). The museum, is one of the world’s largest online veterinary anatomical resource collections designed to inspire learners everywhere to engage with animal anatomy and science in an interactive and informative way. The Online Veterinary Museum includes:  3D imaging of […]

22/11/2012

Nursing Progress Log (NPL) will be unavailable the weekend of the 15/16 December

The RCVS have just informed us that veterinary nursing students/clinical coaches will be unable to access the Nursing Progress Log (NPL) the weekend of the 15/16 December whilst some technical work is carried out by SkillWise on their servers. They apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

21/11/2012

Veterinary Nursing Student, Nicola Cutts, Shares her Tips for Staying On Top of your College Work!

The best advice I could give anyone is ‘if you can give 100% into any situation then you will receive 100% back’. Always push yourself to reach those targets and treat every patient as you would expect your pet to be treated. Finding the correct balance between your social life and college needs to be […]

20/11/2012

Looking to Recruit a New Apprentice? We Can Help!

If you are looking for a new student veterinary nurse or an animal care/horse care apprentice, then we can help you recruit for free! In addition to our free jobs board, we can place the vacancy for you on the National Apprentice Service’s website. We can even filter through the applications, if need be, and arrange the interviews for […]

RCVS and VN Council elections: Candidates Now Being Sought

Nominations are now being sought for candidates to stand in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon Council (RCVS Council) and Veterinary Nurse Council (VN Council) elections. The deadline for nominations is 5pm on 31 January 2013. There are six seats due to be filled on RCVS Council, and two on VN Council. Those elected will […]

CAW Students – Design a Poster or Poem and be in with a chance of winning £100!

In recognition of Anti-Bullying Week 2012 (19-23 November) we are running a poster/poem competition for all our students with the winning entrant receiving £100! Anti-Bullying Week has been running for six years now and this year’s theme is ‘We’re better without bullying’. Posters and poems can be any interpretation of this theme. This year’s theme […]

19/11/2012

Staff and Students Raise Lots for Children In Need

Staff and students from The College of Animal Welfare’s Huntingdon and Leeds centres raised over £200 for Children In Need on Friday 16 November by wearing spots or pyjamas and holding a cake sale! A variety of ‘spottiness’ was seen around the Huntingdon centre – from spotty nails and spotty shirts to spotty face paints […]

NPL ‘Bug’ Now Fixed

The ‘bug’ on the NPL system which meant that the days of the week were not corresponding correctly with dates has now been fixed.

12/11/2012

Reminder Re VN Registration

All Clinical Coaches (who are veterinary nurses) should have renewed their annual registration by now (1 Nov). Remember, if there is a lapse in your registration you will not be able to act as a Clinical Coach during that period. We suggest if you have not renewed your registration and you still wish to remain […]

05/11/2012

Changes to OSCE Tasks

There have been very minor changes to a few of the tasks – essentially wording only. LD08 – wording change to the scenario to indicate right carpus.  Identification of horse no longer included.  Task steps remain the same. NC19 wording change to the task to include that the tablets will be given twice daily.  Remainder of […]

31/10/2012