ANA or VCA

Re: ANA or VCA

montello — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:33:17 GMT

Thanks will give it a go :)

Re: ANA or VCA

Sarah Southworth RVN CertVNECC — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:39:28 GMT

I did the ANA course a few years ago, and found it very useful. It certainly provided background knowledge for the first year course. I knew alot of the anatomy by the time i started my first year. definatetly worthwhile doing.

hope this helps.

Re: ANA or VCA

Katie Murphy RVN — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:37:45 GMT

I mentored a student on the VCA course although I don't know anything about the ANA It is a good course and I'm sure it has become more organised now as my student was in the first year of the course and so there was a lot of trial and error... there is a course tutor at the CAW available for support as well as the mentor.

Re: ANA or VCA

Rhiannon Hutton — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:20:53 GMT

I did the ANA course about 3 years ago and really enjoyed it. I'm now a mentor for one of our nursing assistants who is doing the VCA course. She has to do a lot more assignments and its set out a bit like the VN portfolio whereas when I did the ANA course, there was just 12 (i think) case logs to do and I did all the exams in one go at the end. Her course is run by CAW so it is a bit more structured than mine was and she gets quite a lot of support through them. I did the ANA course through the BVNA so not sure what support SJS give. The exams are much the same for both courses but the VCA course encourages more practical involvement. On a slightly more trivial note, when you pass the ANA course you get a badge!

Re: ANA or VCA

paula morgan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:54:54 GMT

I agree, the ANA was a good course, was very informative and gaveme a good grasp of things before i started diploma course x

Re: ANA or VCA

Sally Seddon — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:32:34 GMT

I did the ANA via SJS and i really enjoyed it. The qvns i work with were suprised by how indepth it went and It gave me a good base knowledge. im really glad i did it. I can defo reccomend it! I dont know alot about VCA so cant help with that one sorry.