Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:12:37 GMT

If you want to comment on this story, probably best to do it in this thread in the forum: www.vetnurse.co.uk/.../27912.aspx

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Paulette — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:29:41 GMT

Hi Alison,

Please could you give a brief description of the reasons why listed nurses had decided to stay listed/will not want to become registered? As someone who supports the recent developments I'm interested in the reasons and being able to understand other's views. I can see why people who have retained a particular status through their own choice will not appreciate their options being removed, but I'd like to understand their resistance to registration. Thanks, P.

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Arlo Guthrie — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:31:18 GMT

No Sal, I was aware of the story and the coverage elsewhere (which seemed in at least one case to be deliberately inflammatory), and decided I would rather wait and report when the official announcement was made.

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Sal the 1st — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:21:25 GMT

in answer to Arlo - VN Times must have better sources then? - this was announced around November 8th.

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Arlo Guthrie — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:45:33 GMT

Hi Sal, the RCVS held fire before making the official announcement because there was some uncertainty over the timing. It was thought that the Royal Charter would happen this year. It's actually happening next. They weren't able to announce officially until that was known for sure, which was last week, and I published the same day as the press release was issued.

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Sal the 1st — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:17:24 GMT

its taken a long time for this to get into the breaking news hasn't it? - well over a month

RE: Royal Charter to recognise veterinary nursing as a profession

Alison Clare Hickman — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:50:37 GMT

Dear Arlo,

I know of some nursing colleagues who are Listed Nurses and have steadfastedly remained so for many years - I cannot see them being happily rail-roaded into Registered status as they definitely have their reasons for NOT wanting to do so. I would support their individual stance in this respect however I guess they have no further options but to capitulate or accept an equivalent status of a VCA or similar and lose Schedule 3 status? I think there are a lot of very experienced and qualified nurses out there that will quietly disappear. Or noisily with finger language... haha.

To the positive; you only have to read the front page of this weeks VN Times (OOH work and the Working Time Regulations) to see that if we are a recognised profession in law then this has an immediate impact on the help that VN's can access. There are other ways to tackle the issue of OOH/WTR but at the very least the Citizens Advice Bureau will be able to assist those nurses who seek help from them!

I watch developments with great interest.

What do other nurses think?!

Ali h