Maintaining welfare standards during hospitalisation
(incl. tax)
Have you ever wondered if you are ‘doing enough’ for your patients when they are hospitalised with you? Are you a ‘let’s get the job done as quickly as possible so it’s over for the animal’ type person or more of a ‘I want to try and make this as postive as possible for the patient’ type person?
This presentation will look at:
• How patient welfare is compromised in the practice by considering the animal’s behavioural, physical, physiological, and environmental needs
• The practical and inexpensive steps a veterinary nurse can take to improve patient welfare with very little extra effort
• The practice of leading by example to help to create an environment of ‘this is normal patient care’ rather than the practical steps being considered ‘extras’
Every area of the clinic will be covered from prep, to theatre to recovery to kennels. No matter how long you have been nursing there is something here for everyone.
This webinar is sponsored by Stress Free Pets
Recording from 31.03.2021
Hayley Walters RVN MBE
Hayley qualified as a veterinary nurse through the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in The UK in 1999. She spent 7 years in mixed animal practice before leaving England to work for animal welfare charity ‘Animals Asia’ with Asiatic black bears rescued from the bile farming industry in China. In 2012 she moved to Scotland to take up a new position as a Welfare and Anaesthesia veterinary nurse for the University of Edinburgh. Hayley was part of the anaesthesia team and responsible for training final year veterinary students in all aspects of anaesthesia, inpatient care and pain management at the teaching hospital of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Hayley also taught animal welfare and clinical skills to veterinary students in developing countries for the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education. Her focus was on improving veterinary education through excellence in patient care and promoting humane alternatives to live animals in veterinary education. In 2018 Hayley moved back to England and now works in a first opinion small animal practice, and also in emergency and critical care. She is the first veterinary nurse to receive an MBE from the Queen for services to veterinary education and animal welfare.
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