There are many behaviour changes individuals can adopt in their personal lives, to limit their impact on the planet and reduce green-house gas emissions. Easy and quick changes which are impactful...
In the UK, there are specific regulations that cover tail docking in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act 2006. These are The Docking of Working Dogs' Tails (England) Regulations 2007 and The...
Online interviews via Microsoft Teams, with ten participants, were used to collect qualitative data. The semi-structured nature of the interviews provided a basic framework to ensure all of the core...
Veterinary human support is a useful umbrella term and can include anything related to supporting people in veterinary roles, from recruitment and training, through to workplace support and career...
The National Union of Registered Veterinary Nurses (The NURVN) is a trade union run by four RVNs – fighting for the rights of nurses, today and tomorrow. We have been slowly building our base of...
The NHS advocates the use of ‘safety huddles’ to support effective communication at key points in the care of individuals, to improve safety. A safety huddle is a short multidisciplinary briefing,...
This was a prospective, cross-sectional survey-based study, approved by the RCVS Ethical Review Panel. The inclusion criteria for participation were being a registered veterinary nurse (UK practicing)...
The main aim of this research is to investigate the relation-ship that competence has to confidence and determine what factors in the registered veterinary nurse experience enable or disable competent...
In a recent RCVS survey of the veterinary profession, wellbeing scores had declined compared to 2014 and are lower than wellbeing scores from the national wellbeing survey, England, conducted in 2016....
The veterinary industry carries a hefty carbon footprint. Typically, we use a lot of energy to maintain ambient temperatures of our premises, we rely heavily on single use plastics, we use anaesthetic...
Early models of bereavement, such as the five stages model created by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, described grief as a process, with the people involved passing through stages such as denial,...
