Clinical Skills

Courses tagged with "Clinical Skills"

Nutritional Consults

Learn the benefits of performing nutritional consults, 6 steps for effective consult communication, how to determine ideal patient body weight and how to calculate feeding quantities and costs for your 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

Tips for Making the Most of Dentistry in Practice

This course will lead you through the Nine Steps to successfully grow your business through dentistry. We will look at how dentistry can contribute to your overall gross revenue and impact your bottom line. You will gain strategies to implement in your practice to affect real change to improve client compliance to grow your business through dentistry.

Course Type:

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

Features: You have access to the course 365 14 days

  • Includes downloadable resources
  • Complete a quiz to attain your certificate of achievement

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

Utilising VARK to Support your Teams Learning Styles

This Proskill steps through Neil Flemming’s VARK tool first developed to help students and teachers in the 1980’s .  The VARK tool will help you to identify your team members learning preferences to allow you to adapt your training and coaching to maximize the learning outcomes.

  • Identify how to complete the VARK tool
  • Discover the 4 learning styles associated with VARK
  • Look at how you can incorporate this into your management tool kit

Course Type:

  • Interactive video lessons that should take up to 30 minutes 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:
  • 0.5 AVNAT Point

Dental Charting: Tips & Tricks

Dental Charts are used to accurately record oral pathology and treatment performed on our dental patients. This video will cover charting techniques using a systematic and thorough approach to allow for accurate recording of pathology found and the treatment performed in the patient record. The Modified Triadan Numbering System, Dental Scoring and common abbreviations for fast recording will be covered. The AVDC abbreviations discussed are accurate at the time of producing this video.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

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

CPD Points:

  • 0.5 AVNAT 


Category: Skill Builders

How to Talk to Clients About Desexing

How to educate clients about desexing to make decisions about whether they should desex their pets, responsible pet ownership and the benefits of desexing.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

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

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Fleas

Learn more about fleas, the signs and symptoms pets display and how to help clients to manage flea problems on their pets.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Heartworm

How to discuss the importance of heartworm prevention with our clients.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

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

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Intestinal Worms

Learn about the four different groups of gastro-intestinal worms and how to prevent them.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.
Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Post-op Processes

Learn how you can discuss post-operative care with your clients. In particular, complex cases and home care.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

How to Talk to Clients About Pre-op Processes

Learn what the client can do to prepare their pets before a surgical procedure.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Ticks

Learn about ticks, how to prevent ticks and health related problems to do with them.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Vaccination: Canine

Learn how to talk about vaccinations specifically in dogs and five diseases relating to dogs.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Talk to Clients About Vaccination: Feline

Learn how to talk about vaccinations specifically in cats and five diseases relating to cats.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

How to Asceptically Prepare a Patient for Surgery

Learn how to clip, clean and scrub a surgical patient.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

CPD Points:

  • 0.25 AVNAT

How to Avoid IV Catheter Complications

This comprehensive course is designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in recognizing, preventing, and treating commonly seen complications related to intravenous catheters in veterinary medicine.

Throughout the course, you will learn about the importance of proper catheter placement, monitoring, and maintenance to minimize the risk of complications such as phlebitis, thrombosis, thrombophlebitis, fluid infiltration, catheter embolism, and more. Our expert instructors will guide you through each topic, providing valuable insights and practical strategies to ensure optimal patient care.

Learning Outcomes: 

  • Introduction to Intravenous Catheters

  • Phlebitis

  • Thrombosis

  • Thrombophlebitis

  • Catheter Embolism

  • Fluid Infiltration

Features:

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

CPD Points: 

  • 0.5 AVNT

How to Make a Blood Smear

Veterinary Nurses are commonly asked to prepare a smear to be either for in-house examination or to be sent with with samples to an outside laboratory. Learn how to prepare a blood smear.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Includes downloadable resources

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

How to Measure and Calculate Urine Output (Catheter)

Learn how to measure & calculate urinary output using a closed urinary collection system. Monitoring urinary output is a vital tool to ensure that urine is being produced to reflect that kidney function and fluid therapy being balanced.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Includes downloadable resources

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT

How to Measure and Calculate Urine Output (Voluntary)

Learn how to collect & measure voluntary urine output. This will discuss ways how to collect urine to either look at the total amount of urine they are producing or a sample to test.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Includes downloadable resources

CPD Points:

  • 0.5 AVNAT

How to Perform a Conscious Oral Exam

Oral examination of a conscious animal is largely limited to visual inspection and some digital palpation only. The benefits of the conscious oral examination is to obtain a tentative diagnosis and help formulate a treatment plan. Learn how to perform a conscious oral examination on a dog or a cat.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.
Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days

How to Perform a Doppler Blood Pressure

Monitoring the blood pressure is a vital tool for helping to assess the patients health and status, learn how to correctly perform a doppler blood pressure.

Course Type:

  • Skill Builder. Designed to provide short and sharp training on specific skill sets. Perfect for inclusion in induction programs or for those who need a quick revision.

Features:

  • You have access to the course for 365 days
  • Includes downloadable resources

CPD Points:

  • 1 AVNAT