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The monthly VN Times podcast takes a deep dive into the issues impacting on the veterinary nursing profession. From making the right career choices to dealing with disability โ it's no holds barred with editor Lacey Pitcher.
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Ep 45: The human-animal bond, a vet nurseโs role
In this VN Times Podcast, editor Lacey Pitcher RVN discusses careers with Kirsty Cavill.
Kirsty has a passion for veterinary nursing that has allowed her to develop and utilise her skills in a variety of ways to not only help improve animal welfare but also provide accessible care in a variety of ways.
Kirsty, an award-winning vet nurse, shares her advice and insight to help other consider how they can support and nurture the human-animal bond.
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Ep 44: Pivots and peer mentoring, with Sara Ho-Le
In this episode, VN Times editor Lacey Pitcher welcomes experienced RVN Sara Ho-Le to discuss training, leadership and peer mentoring.
Saraโs career has been varied and her passion for emergency and critical care has seen her travel to the other side of the world.
Sara discusses utilising her career passport to nurse down under and how mentor nurses have shaped her career.
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Sara completed her veterinary nursing diploma after passing the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) in 2011. After working in clinical practice for several years, Sara obtained RCVS clinical coach status and is passionate about the training and development of student veterinary nurses.
In 2018 Sara returned to study and completed the Certificate in Veterinary Nursing for Emergency and Critical Care (CertVNECC) through VetsNow Ltd. In 2022 Sara obtained the Veterinary Technician Specialist qualification in Emergency and Critical Care through the Academy of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Technicians and Nurses (AVECCTN).
Sara has worked in a variety of practices, including first opinion, specialist centres, university teaching hospitals, and not-for-profit organisations in the United Kingdom and Australia.
She currently works as the training and development coordinator at one of Melbourne's largest veterinary hospitals. Saraโs professional interests include emergency and critical care nursing, disease pathophysiology, anaesthesia and analgesia, wound care, and in-clinic teaching and training.
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Ep 43: Veterinary nursing - falling back in love with medicine
In this episode, VN Times editor Lacey Pitcher welcomes experienced RVN Helen Harris to discuss squiggly careers and falling back in love with veterinary nursing.
Helenโs career has been varied including GP, charity and shelter medicine and now, zoo nursing.
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Ep 42: UK Vet Nurses Worldwide, with Jackie Hay and Michelle Barley
In this episode, VN Times editor Lacey Pitcher welcomes experienced RVNs Jackie Hay and Michelle Barley, two of the nurses behind UK Vet Nurses Worldwide, an initiative dedicated to advancing animal care worldwide by helping facilitate skilled vet nurses sharing their knowledge and education with others to help improve animal welfare.
Despite experiencing technical issues, Jackie and Michelle rallied in true vet nurse fashion to make things work โ even resorting to recording the second half of our interview in a car using mobile internet (pictured) โ because the conversation was too valuable not to be had.
Follow UK Vet Nurses Worldwide on social media at:
www.instagram.com/ukvn.ww
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554955708249
You can also support the initiative at www.gofundme.com/f/uk-vet-nurses-worldwide
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Michelle is a qualified Veterinary Nurse with twenty-nine yearsโ of experience and she works part-time as a nurse, she has worked with large animals, small animals, equine and exotics.
Michelle was on the Board of Trustees for St Francis Dogs Home, Newquay from 2019 to 2022 and has now become the Fostering Coordinator.
Michelle has a particular passion for dogs and horses and has a keen interest in dog behaviour and currently working towards her behaviour certificate.
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Jackie has been a qualified vet nurse for 18 years. She enjoys emergency and critical care and gained the Vets Now ECC certificate in 2019.
Throughout her career, Jackie's main focus has been the care of small animals but she has also supported British Divers Marine Life Rescue with the rehabilitation of seal pups. She is passionate about maintaining high-quality care standards and has been a clinical coach supporting student vet nurses.
Jackie was inspired to create the charity UK Veterinary Nurses Worldwide after working with charities in Cyprus, Romania and Sri Lanka where she trained vets and their assistants in anaesthesia, safe practice and animal welfare. The initiative, UKVNWW, will continue this work and promote animal welfare internationally.
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Fay initially started with a career in human medicine and later decided to retrain as a veterinary nurse. Since 2016 Fay has been involved with trap, neuter, and release clinics and actively gets involved with outreach projects where she can.
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Ep 41: Small animal internal medicine, with Laura Jones
In this episode, VN Times editor Lacey Pitcher talks to RVN Laura Jones, founder of www.veterinaryinternalmedicinenursing.com and veterinary technician specialist in small animal medicine.
Laura is a regular speaker at many big conferences around the UK and further afield, but in this podcast we learn about the person behind the accolades and how she is sharing her passion for medicine with other nurses.
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Laura began nursing in 2007 and qualified as an RVN in 2010. She went on to gain the RCVS Advanced Nursing Diploma in 2014, before moving to a multidisciplinary referral centre in Hampshire as an Internal Medicine nurse. Here, she completed a top-up degree in Advanced Nursing, graduating in 2017.
In January 2019 Laura moved to The Ralph as Senior Medicine Nurse and, in June of the same year, became a member of the Academy of Internal Medicine Veterinary Technicians, completing the VTS entrance exam in Arizona. -
Ep 40: Nutritional knowledge, with Laura Hughes
In this VN Times podcast editor Lacey Pitcher speaks to Laura Hughes about the importance of conversations surrounding nutrition.
Laura is a veterinary nurse development manager at Purina PetCare who firmly believes that supporting nurses has a direct impact on animal welfare. This conversation includes:
โข what the Purina Institute offers nurses
โข CentreSquare resources and tools
โข a teaser of what Purina will be offering at BVNA congress
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Laura qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2002 and worked across first opinion, referral, and rescue centre practices before joining Purina. Since then, she has worked in various roles across the Purina business.
Her current role is to support veterinary nurses in practice as well as technical training for the Purina Veterinary Nutrition Partners.
Lauraโs aim is to further develop the awareness of Purinaโs research and to inspire more people to be passionate about nutrition.