Re: 50 years in veterinary nursing

jacqueline elsom — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:44:03 GMT

Thank you, we had Angela Mariconda come out from the BVNA to help us with the session and she brought some fascinating old archive pictures and meeting minutes, it was really helpful. x

Re: 50 years in veterinary nursing

John Alborough — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:32:09 GMT

The BVNA has some lovely old historical material

Re: 50 years in veterinary nursing

jacqueline elsom — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:27:19 GMT

Thats great! thanks for your help :)

Re: 50 years in veterinary nursing

Samantha Russell — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:12:27 GMT

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Hi everyone,

We are a group of BSc nurses from the Royal veterinary College and to celebrate 50 years of veterinary nursing we are creating posters that will hopefully be displayed at this years BVNA congress.

The posters will be a kind of timeline of veterinary nursing over the past 50 years. our group is working on time period 1951-1969 and we were wondering if anyone had any information or pictures from that time that we could use, i.e the RANA uniform, the badge, the syllabus from this time and anything else that you think is interesting or useful.

Thanks

Jackie, Sarah and Ffion

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Heres a photo and a clip from a newspaper dating 1956 from the veterinary record, hope this can help :]

http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/160/15/497/F2.large.jpg

Two brief paragraphs in The Veterinary Record of November 24, 1956, recorded a meeting at the bva's headquarters the previous Friday, at which a group of members had discussed the establishment of a National Small-Animal Association. The meeting voted unanimously in favour of the idea and a small steering committee was established. The following year, the steering committee announced that the British Small-animal Veterinary Association was to be formed to ‘promote the cultural, scientific, and professional interests of veterinary surgeons and practitioners engaged in small-animal practice, teaching and research’ (VR, February 9, 1957, vol 69, p 117). The inaugural meeting took place at the Royal Veterinary College on March 7, 1957 (reported right). Fifty years on, the bsava is the largest of the bva's specialist divisions, and its annual congress is the biggest annual veterinary gathering in the uk. Here, five past-presidents of the bsava, one from each decade, reflect on the issues facing the association during their presidential year, how things have changed and the challenges that might lie ahead. On p 502, Mike Jessop, the current president, discusses activities over the past year.