The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

ginny — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:58:07 GMT

Funding was a mess before the new government!

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

SharonSP — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:34:06 GMT

Absolutely! totally agree...but hey...that's the new government for ya...look what they're trying to do with uni students too.

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lorraine wiggins — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:46:32 GMT

i dont get funded any more coz they have put the fees up and im over 25 its so unfair!!! makes me mad the amount of money i have to find and the crap wages we are on!

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Tracey Louise — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:52:57 GMT

We have got 2 students on the new course, our vnac is doing a 3 year day release course. The first 2 years will be theory and written exams and the third year practical plus practical exams (osce's). So far its all going well. the NPL is about to be up and running, and i have someone from our college coming to the practice to show me how to use it today. The NPL is much simpler than the portfolio, it involves less paperwork and less work and time all around.

We managed to get both students funded with DART, the practice still has to pay exam fees and registration fees.

The only negative i have is that its 3 years instead of 2 to qualify, quite a big thing, but will be worth it in the end.

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

JustJordanAhoy — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:12:24 GMT

I just started the new course In Bridgend, and have a fantastic TP too.

Although I have no fees to pay, including Reg, I get no help what so ever and not paid in our placements. I had just left Uni doing Marine Geography so I got used to students loans to survive on. But infact on this course I am using more petrol than I did getting to uni as my practice is 40mins away, and my college is 45mins away in the opposite direction. Cant win really.

I desperately need to find a weekend job, but truth be told I am finding it difficult to stay awake after my practice work, god help me working 7 days a week :/

There should be some sort of way allowing us to have student loans in my opinion. This has cause many students to drop out already once they realised the costs... and sadly more will have to make that same tough decision soon too.

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

shropshirelass_1987 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:17:55 GMT

Hi Sorry I havent been online for a while, as for the funding thing for us it basically depends on whether or not you have a level 3 qualification or not if you do you have to pay the course tuition fees, if not like me who only had level 2 qualifcations means I got the tuition fees paid for me by the college. But I still have to pay my £195 registration fee to the RCVS & I'm not sure on the exam fees yet at my college. But on my VCA last year I had to pay both the exam & tuition fees myself because I already had a level 2 qualification.

Sorry I confused you a little sharon from what I understand is you can now for year 1 train in either a Training practice (TP) or for those practices that dont meet all the requirements to be a full TP & they miss a few of the criteria or want to train students then they can become an auxillary training practice or an (ATP) hope this helps x

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

SharonSP — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:34:39 GMT

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& that for your first year as a student VN you dont have to be in a training practice any more.

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Hi, can you let me know what you meant by this part of your post - i am confused!!

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Thanks...I interpreted it slightly differently as in.."you can train in a practice that is a non-tp", but obviously the aTPs are just satellite centres and you can train in these as you have said.

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Phrin Vernon RVN — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:52:02 GMT

woooooo! go you!

you'll be qualified before you know it!

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

PHA86 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:05:28 GMT

My practice have been telling me for 12 months that I wouldn't be able to do my VN training with them any longer because of the changes, then last week it all got finalised. I could have really done without the stress of trying to find a new place to work! As far as I'm aware, all the TPs will know of the changes, following various RCVS meetings, etc.

I start college Monday, I'm excited, shame I've had such a rubbish day at work today!

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Nichola231 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:48:01 GMT

As far as I am aware, you can train in an Auxiliary Training Practice but you will have to complete certain parts of the training in a normal TP that has the proper facilities.

I'm leaving it a year. Gives the course time to go through some of its teething problems.

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

SharonSP — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:54:33 GMT

[quote user="Angharad Seabury"]

& that for your first year as a student VN you dont have to be in a training practice any more.

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Hi, can you let me know what you meant by this part of your post - i am confused!!

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Jenny Cook RVN — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:33:10 GMT

Im starting my 2nd year next thursday onto a transitional diploma course, so i have a year and a half left till qualify rather than 2 more years.

I ve been told that some diploma units for us 2nd years who have completed NVQ L2 will be marked off as completed under transferable skills etc, as some of the stuff has been covered already via NVQ 2 AND via portfolio. Therefore we shouldnt have to have extra work to do or redo the same units/subjects again unless for revision purposes.

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Rachel Jayne — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:08:52 GMT

I'm confused by the whole funding thing now too, I thought if you were under 24/25 you were entitiled to funding, but a girl I know who used to work as a kennel maid at a practice I worked at, who's only just finished her GCSE's and is starting her ANA has been told she's not entitled to any funding at all...

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jodieandrews — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:51:22 GMT

I'm at Bicton college and they are trying to get apprenticeship money to fund us-even over 25's. I'm just starting the second year and its gonna be even worse for us because we have done NVQ 2 first and this doesn't cover all the topics in the new course so its extra work for us to fit in!It sounds like it might be horrendous but i'm gonna take it a day at a time and try not to get too stressed about it:(

Re: The new Veterinary Nursing course.

Nicola Smith — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:04:00 GMT

Thats the same for us too, I think it depends on the college and who does their funding. Our college uses a company called DART for funding and they will fund or part fund anyone unless they alreday have a degree.

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Sally Seddon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:52:52 GMT

The place im going has funding for over 25's, im 27 and its getting funded. I didnt expect to get any to be honest but for some reason i have

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Laura x — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:47:59 GMT

I'm annoyed there is no funding for over 25 year olds!! Have worked in a practice for 10 years battling to train, feels like a kick in the teeth really.