Unit name | Applied Clinical Veterinary Nursing |
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Unit code | VETS30036 |
Credit points | 40 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Mrs. Amy Homer |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
All 1st, 2nd and 3rd year units |
Co-requisites |
All other 4th year units |
School/department | Bristol Veterinary School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit is a part of the BSc Honours Programmes- Veterinary Nursing and Bioveterinary Science & Veterinary Nursing and Companion Animal Behaviour. It expands upon the underpinning knowledge gained within the Clinical Veterinary Nursing Theory unit in year two of the programme and will enable students to investigate in more depth key areas of both medical and surgical nursing, anaesthesia and analgesia. They will reflect upon the clinical nursing they have carried out within the 3rd year of the programme, evaluate its effectiveness and formulate care plan strategies based upon clinical practice and theory taught within the unit.
Aims:
To enable the student to understand and assume the responsibility for the provision of the nursing and veterinary requirements of patients under the direction of the supervising veterinary surgeon.
At the end of this teaching unit, the student should be able to :
1 Assess the specific needs of patients presenting with medical conditions (typical and complicated) or undergoing advanced surgical procedures and choose the most appropriate nursing interventions to support these patients.
2 Plan , implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing delivered to a range of patients with common and complex surgical and/or medical conditions (including, when appropriate, anaesthesia management, pain assessment and management, fluid therapy, nutritional support)
3 Prepare, check and appropriately use a wide range of diagnostic, surgical and anaesthetic equipment and appraise the use of this type of equipment in high dependence surgical and medical patients.
4 Analyse, criticise and combine the available literature on advanced surgical and medical nursing (including anaesthesia and analgesia) and integrate this in their nursing practice
Lectures
Case Studies
Practicals
The pass mark for this unit is 40%. Students must obtain a minimum of 40% in each of the following assessment components:
- 2 hour written paper (80% weighting)(ILO 1,2,3) - Research Skills group DSE (20% weighting)(ILO 4)Students who fail to satisfy either of the above criteria will be deemed to have failed the whole unit and will need to resit that component part.
Resits as above
Recommended:
BSAVA manual of canine and feline advanced veterinary nursing
Book by Moore, Alasdair Hotston; Rudd, Suzanne; British Small Animal Veterinary Association - c2008
BSAVA manual of canine and feline anaesthesia and analgesia
Book by dawsonera - 2016
BSAVA manual of canine and feline surgical principles: a foundation manual
Book by dawsonera - 2012
Anaesthesia for veterinary nurses
Book by Welsh, Elizabeth; MyiLibrary – 2009
Further reading:
Veterinary anaesthesia
Book by Clarke, K. W.; Trim, C. M.; Hall, Leslie W.; Wright, John G.; dawsonera - 2014
Small animal surgery
Book by Fossum, Theresa Welch - 2018
Veterinary surgery: small animal
Book - 2018
Small animal spinal disorders: diagnosis and surgery
Book by Sharp, Nicholas J. H.; Wheeler, Simon J - 2005
Equine surgery
Book by Auer, Jörg A.; Stick, John A - c2012