Qualified to unqualified nurses in practice

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Dawn Seabrook — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:22:59 GMT

Sorry Didn't explain that very well they have qualified as a veterinary care assistant under the city and guilds scheme.

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Cheryl RVN — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:24:08 GMT

I currently work in a practice with 2 qualified and 2 students VN's and 2 animal nursing assistants.

In previous practices they have had a mix of qualified and unqualified carrying out the same duties and nursing tasks. Also some called themselves VN's to clients and this name is not yet protected and I feel that it should be.

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:06:22 GMT

When I started we had 1.5 RVNs, 4 SVNs and one unqual nursing assistant.

Now have 4.5 RVNs and one SVN

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Izzie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:02:48 GMT

We have 2 RVN, 1 VN, 1SVN and non qualified head nurse.

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dinkyd — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:57:12 GMT

We have 7 RVNs and 1 ANA.

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Sal the 1st — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:47:42 GMT

3 nursing staff where I work - 1 qual and 2 non qual and we all do the same job. There is one vet - pretty close knit team

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FINNIGAN — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:41:22 GMT

ok, so where does all this leave me? ive been in practise for 6 years now, am just going to do final 4th attempt at paper 2 level 3, (all i need to qualify) if i fail, thats it for me, my boss has said my job is safe and nothing will change for me, but what will i be? i wont be qualified, not a svn, either and no longer signed on as a trainee, i wont continue either as a student regarding carrying on with trying to qualify as not starting the whole thing again!!! so what will my title be then!!!!!

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Jenblob2 — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:07:28 GMT

I work at a vets where for at least the past 4 years have only had assistants and no qualified or students. Not a particularly big practice, there once was a part time qualified but as far as i know theres just been assistants from when it opened. Theres 3 full time and 1 part time now and I, (a full time) have just started training and i think the other 2 full time will be training from sept/jan. I never realised how much qualified nurses even did before i started training in Jan. All assistants get treated the same but i would love to have a qualified now to take a bit of control and show me how stuff is supposed to be done!!! having a clinical coach that is a vet is a bit tricky!

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Angiy Michael — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:55:58 GMT

I've never worked anywhere that had staff in a full nurse role that weren't either qualified or training as students..so usually 100% qualified and some students . Most places I have worked have ANA or Aux . I don't think I would fancy working somewhere that employed someone in the full nurse role that wasn't ether qualified or training but then have usually worked at places that have roles for nurses that are 100% nursing based..ie no reception etc., so it wouldn't be appropriate to have someone with no formal training unless they were starting their actual training. At my current workplace we have upwards of 35 nurses , approx 4 or 5 of whom are students, of the others 4 are DipAVN and 2 are currently working towards DipAVN, several have have a vet nursing degree either via initial qualification or via top-up. We have approximately 7 Auxillaries of whom about half have ANA or are working towards it

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BengalcatRVN — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:17:14 GMT

[quote user="Dawn Seabrook"]

8.5 RVN and 6 qualified Vet care assitants

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ummm. what makes them qualified? Just asking, coz my PCA's want to kow

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Dawn Seabrook — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:04:14 GMT

8.5 RVN and 6 qualified Vet care assitants

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BengalcatRVN — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:54:10 GMT

1 qualified, 1 student.

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epartrick — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:43:04 GMT

We have 2 QVNs and 3 SVNs (1 who is about to do practicals, one on a uni placement and i have just started college)

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Susan Jackson — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:20:30 GMT

Don't think unqualifieds are allowed to administer meds (Inj) or loads of other things. SVN can because they're supervised and training but there will always be practices out there that will think everythings fine.

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Claire Cameron — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:20:20 GMT

Thanks for your replies guys.

Just wondered as a practice a friend works at is having a few changes. She's the only QVN and is leaving, there are 2 unqualifieds (no training at all) and the boss isn't replacing her as he feels its sufficient to just have 2 unquals.

Made me quite annoyed

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Elvira — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:18:50 GMT

All 8 nurses are qualified (2 are part time), plus 1 assistant, who I believe is to start training later this year. We also have 2 receptionists who are QVNs.

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FINNIGAN — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:16:31 GMT

2 full tme svn, seem to be there all the time and 2 part time, one of which is head nurse, daft i think!!! 2 students on there own!!!

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Laura James — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:16:13 GMT

1 QVN, 5 .5RVNs (1 going on maternity, 1 leaving soon & 1 part time), 4 SVNs, 1 starting her training Sept, and 1 auxillary nurse

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xXx Cat xXx — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:07:49 GMT

2 RVNS 1 SVN and 1 ANA.

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Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:18:48 GMT

3 RVN (altho 2 currently on maternity leave - grrrr), 3 SVN and 2 unqualified.

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Catherine Raymond — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:53:41 GMT

4 qualified, one going through ana training, 4 unqualified nurse assistant

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Sally Seddon — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:52:26 GMT

3 qual (2 job share), me svn and one auxilliary

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Kim Buckley — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:52:35 GMT

Sorry it has all come out in one line! Stupid posting off my phone!

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Kim Buckley — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:51:58 GMT

Current job - all qualified nurses Last job - 2 qualified nurses and 1 kennel assistant Job before that - 5 qualified and 4/5 students