Dr Mary Fraser MRCVS, Lecturer in Environmental Biology & Veterinary Nursing at Edinburgh Napier University, is asking RVNs to take part in a pilot study investigating the stresses and strains of working in practice.

Mary said: "I am interested in how we prepare students for the realities of practice, in particular dealing with stressful situations. As part of this I have set up an online questionnaire where I hope currently qualified veterinary nurses will give me their opinions about their own training and how they feel it prepared them, or if things need changed, then how we could do this."

The survey is open to RVNs who have worked in practice for a minimum of 6 months, although they don’t need to be currently working in practice.

To take part, visit: https://survey.napier.ac.uk/n/zzzlg.aspx.

And if you want to further support the work Mary is doing, do circulate the survey amongst the other nurses at your practice!

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