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CAW Chooses City & Guilds To Award VN Qualification
The UK’s largest provider of veterinary nurse training, The College of Animal Welfare (CAW), has chosen City & Guilds to award its veterinary nurse provision. CAW has been carefully evaluating the choice of awarding body following the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ (RCVS) announcement to close its awarding body (RCVS Awards) last year. Commenting on […]
BVNA Launches New Laboratory Revision App
Student and qualified veterinary nurses can now benefit from the new BVNA Laboratory App for iPhone and iPad. The British Veterinary Nursing Association has joined forces with leading IT provider, AT Veterinary Systems, to produce a handy laboratory revision app for veterinary nurses. Split into two sections, the app comprises a quick revision and a […]
Reminders for Clinical Coaches!
Please remember that, as a Clinical Coach, you must make be an RVN or MRCVS – Please check your registration! If you have a student wishing to start the day release veterinary nursing programmes this September you should enrol them as soon as possible as places are filling up fast! Remember if your student is […]
NPL Server Maintenance – Sunday 15 July
We have been informed by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) that they will be carrying out essential maintenance to their NPL Server on Sunday 15 July. This will mean that students and Clinical Coaches will be unable to access their NPL for a few hours on this date. The RCVS apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Free Webinar to Help Vets and Vet Nurses Meet Code Requirement
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and the Webinar Vet have teamed up to offer a free webinar to help veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses meet one of the new provisions of the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct. The new Codes for both vets and vet nurses state that they must maintain minimum practice standards equivalent […]
Training Practices – Are you Ready for September?
Take a look at our summer health check for Training Practices (TPs) below and see if you are all up-to-date and ready for the start of next term: Have you completed all the action points from your latest TP annual audit visit? Are all your clinical coaches trained ready for September? If not, remember we offer free clinical […]
Summer VN Practical Examination Information
Uptake for the summer veterinary nursing practical examinations has been lower than expected this year and, as such, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has deemed it necessary to reduce the number of examination centres to four. The available exmaination centres are now Harper Adams University College, Hartpury College, Myerscough College and MYF Training.
Nursing Progress Log (NPL) Abuse
Action has recently been taken by a centre in a case of clinical coaches sharing log-in details in order to add entries to NPLs for which they were not authorised. Not only does this potentially invalidate entries, but it is a breach of the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct. Veterinary nurses and veterinary surgeons must […]
Fully Funded Veterinary Nurse Training to Under 19s
If you are under 19 years of age and are looking to start training as a veterinary nurse this September then you may be entitled to fully funded apprenticeship (Level 3 Diploma) training. To start the programme you must meet the academic entry requirements and be employed in a veterinary practice that is approved to […]
New Online CPD Recording System – the Professional Development Record – is available now!
Veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses wishing to record their CPD using the new online recording system – the Professional Development Record (PDR) can now access this and register via the RCVS website. Find out more about the veterinary nursing PDR here. Find out more about the PDR for veterinary surgeons here. The traditional paper-based CPD record card may still […]