Veterinary Nursing – Those Were the Days !

• Kathy Kissick VNC Vice Chair

• 1908 – 2016

• Not just 50 years of celebration

1844 RCVS Formed – Royal Charter

Veterinary Practice Recognised as aProfessionCoat of Arms granted

1908 Canine Nurses Institute

1913 RuislipDogSanatorium

Canine Nurse Institute• Trained by VS on caring for dogs• Kept them and nursed them in their rooms• Salary 25 shillings per week• Plus room and board and travelling• Equates to £1.25

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

Be careful of exclusion of studentswho will be excellent all round nurses.

1938 - Mrs Florence Bell RVC Head Nurse

Empathy and Advocacy for Animals

1961- ANA Nursing started1962 – first ANA examinations in

September

1965 BVNA inaugurated

1966 BVNA changed Name to BANAA

Nurse Title Protected for human nurses

Protecting the Title 2016

Sewell & Cousins VS

• Veterinary surgeons beginning to take interest in additional help in the surgeries

• Contacted the RCVS for formal recognition of veterinary nurses

• RCVS rejected this initiative

Establishment of VNs

• Concerns raised by VS in Veterinary Record• Getting above our station• Wanted to be mini vets

• Mini vets ?

Judy comic 1969 & Debbie Comic 1982

Jean Turner RANA 1971

Antibiotics

Anaesthesia

Pharmaceutical companies

Pet InsuranceAnalgesia

Preventative Treatments

Vaccinations

Analgesia

Nutrition

Bandaging

Me !!! 1983

Registered Animal Nursing Auxiliary

1984 BVNA renamed

Nursing title no longer protected for human nurses only

Veterinary Nurse Certificate 1984

Nursing in the 1980s

Nursing in the 1980s

TV Influences

CAW students – back in time

Most VNs started at an Early Age

Stereotyping

Very few male Veterinary NursesUntil 1990s

1977 male human centred nurses allowed onto register

Demand led to College Training

BictonBerkshireMyerscough 1975Rodbaston

1 year in practice before College

Day / blocks and evening classes

Few Text books

Reliant on textbooks written by VS

Reliant on teaching by VS

Jones Animal Nursing

Guidance Booklets

•Preliminary and final examinations – Credit if 75% in all sections•Examined by VS•Long essay questions•Short answer•Practical vivas each year and tasks•Spotter test•Then NVQ and MCQ examinations

Examinations 1999

Past papers & Syllabus

BVNA over the Generations

Pre Veterinary Nursing late 1980s

BSAVA Started to Develop VN Textbooks

Meeting the Needs of The VN

Larger Range of Textbooks

VN – RVN – Dip AVN

Equine Veterinary Nursing 1990s

1991 - onwards

• VSA 1966 amended to incorporate Schedule 3 Tasks

• Dip AVN 1980s with BVNA• Graduate programmes in 1990s• HE Dip – Dip AVN in 2000 +• 2012 VN Declaration incorporated into

admissions along with new Code of Conduct

VN Council

• The RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council was established in 2002 and replaced the Veterinary Nurses Committee.

• It has overall responsibility for all matters concerning veterinary nurse training, post-qualification awards and the registration of qualified veterinary nurses.

Educate our Clients

Educate our Prospective Students

Nurses are Nurses are Nurses!

Mini Vets ?

Or Maxi Nurses ?

Advocates for our Patients

BVNA Still Needs All Our Support

VNC Needs Your Support• Six veterinary nurses are contesting two places in this year’s VN

Council elections, all of whom are new candidates. They are:• Mrs Stacey Bullock RVN• Miss Racheal Marshall RVN• Mrs Wendy Nevins RVN• Mr Matthew Rendle RVN• Mrs Samantha Thompson RVN• Miss Helen Tottey RVN• Ballot papers and candidates’ details are due to be posted to all

veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses eligible to vote during the week commencing 14 March, and all votes must be cast, either online or by post, by 5pm on Friday, 29 April 2016.

Huge Opportunities for VNs

Always Important

Like to Think I have Done This

Me Now

My Home Now