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On hand to answer your questions is Adam Gregory, RVN NCert (Anaesth) DMZAA DipVNZS APVN, Head Nurse at Great Western Exotics.
Before putting your questions to Adam, you're invited to read his article on the subject here: https://www.veterinary-practice.com/article/pain-management-in-the-avian-patient
Then join the Clinical Article Club here: https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/vetnurse-clinical-article-club and post your question or discussion point in the forum.
Remember, you can claim time spent reading or participating in the discussion towards your annual CPD requirement: press the 'Claim CPD' button at the top right of the discussion thread.
Now, when you search Google for something which includes the word 'job' or 'jobs', Google presents an easy-to-filter list of local vacancies. You can also search in other locations.
One of the criteria for a job advert to be listed in Google for Jobs is that it must first have appeared on a webpage written with special code which allows the search engine to read the advert correctly.
VetNurse Jobs has been upgraded to include this code, and jobs advertised on VetNurse.co.uk are now appearing on Google for Jobs.
VetNurse Editor Arlo Guthrie said: "We've known this was coming for some time, so we made sure VetNurse Jobs would be ready as soon as Google unveiled the new system.
It has yet to be seen how widely Google for Jobs will be used by veterinary nurses looking for a job. Back in the day, you'd have to wait for the latest copy of Vet Times to arrive in the post in order to find a job. Then came the internet, and with it a small handful of job websites worth checking for VN vacancies, of which VetNurse Jobs is one.
Now, Google for Jobs provides one-stop search from most of the big players, although not all veterinary job boards are compatible with the new system and notably Indeed is excluded from Google for Jobs search results.
The question now is whether jobseekers will continue to go directly to their favourite job website, or search google first. Either way, though, you'll find jobs advertised on VetNurse.co.uk!
What do you think of the new Google for Jobs feature? Comment below.
You probably know that just reading content on www.vetnurse.co.uk can count towards the 5 hours of undocumented Continuing Professional Development RVNs are allowed to undertake each year. What you may NOT know is that other activities on the site can now count towards the requirement for 45 hours (on average) of documented CPD, without restriction. Best of all, it's free!
To count towards your CPD requirement, your activities on VetNurse must be part of a documented process of appraisal and development. In other words, you must keep a record of your activity and how it has contributed to your professional development.
By default, VetNurse.co.uk keeps a record of your activity on the website, which provides an auditable trail. To view your activity, click My Account (main menu) > View My Profile > View all activity. If no activity is displayed, checked that you have activity logging enabled in the 'Display Options' under 'Edit My Profile'.
Currently, there are three main VetNurse.co.uk activities you can take part in which can count towards your annual CPD requirements:
Participating in forumsIf you post a question on VetNurse.co.uk and receive a reply, you may count the time spent posting your question and reading the answer as CPD. You should keep a note of what you learned.If you post a reply to a question, and needed to research your answer, the time you spend researching and posting your answer also counts as CPD. So, if you can answer the question in your sleep, that doesn't count. But if the question made you think, and you need to check your facts, that does.To count towards your CPD allowance, your forum posts must concern a subject which can reasonably be argued to advance your knowledge and proficiency as a veterinary nurse (so RCVS-bashing posts won't qualify!)
Publishing content on VetNurseVetNurse offers a number of additional opportunities to self-publish on the site, and any time spent researching and publishing qualifying content (which can reasonably be argued to advance your knowledge and proficiency as a nurse) can count towards your documented CPD. For example, Practical Nursing Tips (http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/blogs/veterinary-nursing-tips/default.aspx) is a newsfeed in which members can publish clinical tips; the time you spend researching and publishing a tip would qualify.
Documented readingAdditionally, time spent reading the site where you document specifically what you have read and what you have learned can also count towards your documented CPD.
Further information about CPD requirements is available from the RCVS website, click here.