'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

RE: 'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

Helen Tottey — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:25:53 GMT

Don't we have to start somewhere? This is a great big step in the right direction. Yes there is awareness issues but that has to come down to the practices and individual RVN's helping to educate owners on the value of ALL the skill sets in their team. This isn't undermining other very experienced staff but if we don't have our title protected we may as well do away with the qualification all together! I am proud of my RVN status and worked hard - and continue to work hard for the benefit of the profession I am passionate about and I want the Veterinary Nurse title to be protected.

RE: 'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

PSA-David — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:01:36 GMT

to be fair its a bit of both. Protecting the name is a start so people could double check things, I would hope this would be a start of things where the RCVS states it law that only REGISTERED AND TRAINED nurses are allowed to carry out nursing procedures. This should also include this "qualified microchip implanter" rubbish that I notice going around on FB at the moment..

RE: 'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

Sal the 1st — Wed, 20 May 2015 10:45:47 GMT

and we all know where 'assume' gets us - so essentially protecting a name is more important than a standard of care for all practices?

RE: 'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

PSA-David — Wed, 20 May 2015 10:41:54 GMT

this would protect the title. As once people are informed this is one of our "nurses" the general public automatically assume they are qualified and registered. If they have to State that they are an assistant they this would make the public think about actually who is monitoring any anaesthesia or have they actually had any training. I would then like to assume, this will encourage practices to either train and allow staff to attend college or employ Registered Vet Nurses.

RE: 'Veterinary Nurse' one step closer to being protected in law

Sal the 1st — Wed, 20 May 2015 09:26:24 GMT

Sorry but I am really not getting this - what exactly are we protecting? There will still be a very large number of unqualified nursing staff (whatever you want to call them) in practice because there is no legal requirement for nursing staff to be qualified and as an extension of that for them to be regulated. So if this is 'the final brick' this is the best you can hope for?