Advanced VN

Courses tagged with "Advanced VN"

Tick paralysis

Tick paralysis is a debilitating condition that requires prompt recognition, appropriate treatment, and specialized nursing care. In this comprehensive course, you will gain a solid foundation in understanding Tick Paralysis, its common clinical signs, and the essential steps for preparing to handle Tick Paralysis patients.

Throughout the course, you will delve into the intricate aspects of Tick Paralysis, starting with the recognition of patients affected by this condition. You will learn how to identify the specific symptoms and signs associated with Tick Paralysis, enabling you to swiftly identify affected animals in various settings.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognizing the clinical presentation and signs of Tick Paralysis patients.
  • Implementing appropriate treatment strategies for Tick Paralysis patients.
  • Providing specialized nursing care for Tick Paralysis patients, including comfort measures, mobility assistance, and holistic support.
  • By the end of this course, you will have gained the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively support the management and care for Tick Paralysis patients.

Course Type:

  • Interactive video lessons that should take up to 60 min to complete

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT


Category: Clinical Skills

Feline Renal Disease

Discover essential knowledge about Feline Renal Disease with this comprehensive course. Explore its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options, empowering you to better understand and manage this condition. Gain insights into dietary considerations, lifestyle modifications, and supportive care techniques. Equip yourself with expert guidance to enhance the well-being of cats affected by renal disease.

Throughout this course, you'll delve into the multifaceted aspects of Feline Renal Disease, beginning with an exploration of its underlying causes and risk factors. We'll analyze the intricate interplay between genetic predisposition, age, and environmental factors, enabling you to identify potential triggers and mitigate their impact.

Understanding the early signs and symptoms of Feline Renal Disease is crucial for prompt diagnosis and intervention. You'll learn how to recognize the subtle indicators of renal dysfunction, such as increased thirst, frequent urination, weight loss, and changes in appetite. We'll delve into the diagnostic tools and techniques employed to assess kidney function, including blood tests, urinalysis, and imaging studies, empowering you to make informed decisions and develop appropriate treatment plans.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of Feline Renal Disease.
  • Explore various treatment options and their effectiveness.
  • Gain insights into dietary adjustments and lifestyle modifications to support affected cats.
  • Learn about the importance of regular monitoring and supportive care techniques.

CPD Points: 

  • 1 AVNAT


Category: Clinical Skills

Post Anaesthesia Standards of Care

Post-anaesthesia standards of care are essential to ensure the safe recovery of animals from anaesthesia. Proper post-anaesthesia care can prevent complications and promote a successful outcome. This includes monitoring the animal’s vital signs, maintaining a stable body temperature, managing pain, and providing appropriate support and nutrition. It is important for veterinary practices to establish and adhere to strict post-anaesthesia standards of care to ensure the highest level of safety and comfort for animals under their care. By providing proper post-anaesthesia care, veterinary practices can also improve client satisfaction and trust in their services.

In this course, we will explore the goals of recovery, what as a minimum should be monitored, how to reduce complications, post-anaesthesia abnormalities and how to set your team up for success moving forward with consistency and a high standard of care.

Learning outcomes:

  • Goals of recovery
  • Monitoring parameters
  • Reducing post-anaesthesia complications
  • Patient recovery

Course Content:

  • Interactive video with quiz questions
  • Certificate of Completion

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT CPD


Category: Clinical Skills

Anaesthesia with Co-morbidities and Increased Risk

This course will give you the confidence to approach those tricky anaesthetics that you tend to avoid. Whether the patient is young or old, brachycephalic or has an underlying medical condition, you will gain a good understanding of the additional considerations required for these patients to help ensure a smooth anaesthetic and good outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn about:

  • How to handle complex anaesthetics with confidence
  • Equipment preparation and general considerations for patients of different ages and sizes
  • Anaesthetic management of patients with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
  • Special considerations for obese patients and those undergoing dental procedures
  • How medical conditions like renal disease, diabetes and hyperadrenocorticism can affect anaesthesia
  • Requirements for specific emergency procedures such as urinary tract obstruction, caesareans and GDV surgery
  • The additional considerations required for complex cases

Course details:

  • 6 x interactive video with quiz questions
  • Certificate of Completion
  • Access: 
    • If access is via a subscription then you have access for the duration of the subscription
    • If individually purchased, you have access to the course for 365 days 
CPD Points: 
  • 2 AVNAT NIAG

Category: Clinical Skills

Telephone Triage Skills

The aim of telephone triage is to determine the urgency and necessary care level of a patient and provide advice to that client. For every phone call answered, it is our job, as the triage nurse or client care representative to seek to understand what state of emergency the patient is (or is not) in and provide the best care possible. The challenge for us in Veterinary Medicine, is that we are not speaking to the patient, but rather an interpreter of the patient. Therefore our telephone triage technique matters.

Course Type:

  • Interactive video lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete
Features:
  • Access to the course is either:
    • If you bought access to the stand-alone course, then you have access for 365 days
    • If as part of a subscription, you have access for th e duration of an active subscription  
  • Complete quiz activities to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT CPD point

Category: Clinical Skills

Bandaging and Wound Care

When applied appropriately, bandages promote healing, protect a wound, absorb exudate, can be used to relieve pressure and provide immobilisation or support. Learn about the stages of wound healing, what can promote or inhibit that process and how to use bandages to gain the optimal outcome.

Course Type:
Interactive lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Complete interactive lessons to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT Point

Category: Clinical Skills

Being a Patient Advocate

You are the eyes and ears of your patient. Learn how to decide the right patient plan and treatment goals, and how you can be an advocate for your patient.

Course Type:
Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Includes downloadable resources
Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT
Category: Clinical Skills

Blood Transfusions

Learn about managing blood transfusions for dogs and cats covering donor selection, collection, cross-matching, administration, and monitoring. This course includes downloadable course notes.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Anaemia; Regenerative/Non-Regenerative
  • Types of Blood Products, Use and Storage
  • Blood Collection; Donor Selection Criteria
  • Blood Types, Cross Matching, Typing, Xeno-transfusions
  • Product Preparation, Administration, Rate Calculations
  • Monitoring, Transfusion Reactions

Course Type:

  • Interactive video lessons that should take up to 2 hours to complete

Features:

  • You will have access as part of an active ProSkills Course Subscription
  • You have access to the course for 365 days with individual course purchase
  • Complete quiz activities to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 2 AVNAT CPD Points
Category: Clinical Skills

Cardiovascular Disease

Having a good understanding of the cardiovascular system and potential diseases and defects that can occur is essential for all veterinary professionals. The role the cardiovascular system has an effect in all functions of the body and is often a common problem seen in practice.

Learning Outcomes

  • Anatomy and function of the heart
  • Heart disease and abnormalities
  • Performing a cardiovascular assessment
  • Treatment and nursing care

Course Type:

  • Interactive video lessons that should take up to 2 hours to complete

Features:

  • You will have access as part of an active ProSkills Course Subscription
  • You have access to the course for 365 days with individual course purchase
  • Complete quiz activities to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 2 AVNAT CPD Points
Category: Clinical Skills

Chocolate Toxicity

Up to date information on chocolate toxicity. Learn about general toxicity triage, first response care, clinical signs of toxicity and the treatments and nursing care you can provide for your patients.

Course Type:
Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Includes downloadable resources
Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT
Category: Clinical Skills

CPR

Learn about CPR techniques, how to perform CPR and drugs commonly used in CPR situations.

Course Type:
Videocast lesson with quiz that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Includes downloadable resources
Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT | 1 AVA VetEd
Category: Clinical Skills

Crash Cart Organisation

What do you need in your crash cart? Why do you need it? Where should the crash cart be kept? Find out the answers and more in this course.

Course Type:
Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Includes downloadable resources
Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT
Category: Clinical Skills

Dental Charting: Fundamentals

Understand the foundations skills of dental charting, dental anatomy and the dentition in the mouth. Conscious and unconscious oral examinations, dental charting techniques and symbols used and lastly home care advice for clients.

Course Type:
Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:
You have access to the course for 365 days
Includes downloadable resources
Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT
Category: Clinical Skills

Dental Hand Instruments: Care & Sharpening

Maintaining and caring for hand instruments is an important facet in veterinary dentistry. Their proper care & maintenance will ensure their longevity, your safety and your patient’s comfort.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

Category: Clinical Skills

Dental Malocclusions: What do they Mean?

Learn to correctly identify normal occlusion in dogs and cats. Topics to be covered include: Normal occlusion, the Types & Classes of Malocclusions and their significance in the Oral Health of pets.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

Category: Clinical Skills

Dental Radiography

Learn the steps to produce veterinary dental radiographs quickly and efficiently. Topics covered include: basics of dental radiography; techniques for patient positioning; techniques for film positioning (including bisecting angle and parallel techniques); and correct orientation of film for optimal viewing and interpretation.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT Point

Category: Clinical Skills

Dentistry Fundamentals: Dental Nomenclature

Nomenclature is just a fancy word for the Names of Things. In this topic we will talk about the names of all things Dentistry starting with the anatomy of the skull, the oral cavity and through to the dentition. We will address the importance of the Veterinary Nurse’s Role in caring for our dental patients and learn some fun facts about Veterinary Dentistry along the way.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:
1 AVNAT

Category: Clinical Skills

Dentistry Fundamentals: Home Care Compliance

This topic gives you up to date information following global guidelines in best practice to engage clients to play an active role in the oral hygiene of their pets. Learn about the actions of home care products, tailored home care plans and the tools to educate clients.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

Category: Clinical Skills

Dentistry Fundamentals: Intra-Oral Radiography

Dental radiography has its challenges. This video will address what constitutes a diagnostic image, describe the various intra-oral techniques, along with the tips for success from patient, plate & generator positioning, mastering the bisecting angle, and correctly orientating images to better assist our veterinarians with interpretation.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT CPD 

Category: Clinical Skills

Dentistry Fundamentals: Malocclusions & C.O.H.A.T

Veterinary nurses play a pivotal role in the success of in-clinic dental programs, patient care and client education. This video covers the latest in client communication and provision of patient care meeting global standards. This video introduces veterinary nurses to identification of the four classes of traumatic malocclusions as early detection can help to reduce lifelong pain and discomfort.

Course Type:

  • Videocast lessons that should take up to 1 hour to complete

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

Category: Clinical Skills