Setting up your rvn business

Re: Setting up your rvn business

caz vn1 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:33:34 GMT

think you might be right. thanks for the tip x

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Helen Tottey — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:49:06 GMT

I opened my own vet practice 5 years ago now and employ the vet. I certainly think VN's should have other options outside of traditional nursing and going into rep'ing!

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Sophie Bedford RVN CertVNECC — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:37:50 GMT

Have you thought about maybe doing Reiki for local dog/cat charities and getting references or endorsements from that? They must speak to lots of people and would set you apart from other people who just leaflet drop aswell if you are already "tried and tested"... just an idea!

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Mark Hedberg — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:00:11 GMT

That's because there's quite a lot of leaflet dropping going on; it's a bit difficult to stand out when your advert is being stepped over and kicked into a convenient corner. (No disrespect intended, just saying that I get a lot of fliers for charity clothes, pizza delivery, dog walking, cleaning, moving, and so on...it's very competitive. People do business with people they like; go to fairs and meet people; volunteer at popular events, and so on, would be my suggestion...

Re: Setting up your rvn business

caz vn1 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:18:49 GMT

I have been looking into this as well. did a leaflet drop round my area but had very little response was quite suprised!

saw an ad on here for buying into a franchise so they do all the advertising for you just cant decide if that is the way to to go?

any feedback gratefully recieved x

Re: Setting up your rvn business

ally — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:42:19 GMT

I want to do something like that along with my reiki for animals. It's great to see VNs able to do this! Do you know what insurance company she used? :)

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Phrin Vernon RVN — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:28:18 GMT

This is something I need to look into Sal - I'd love to be able to not just administer but also supply flea and worm treatment... interested to hear a reply, as I'm not sure where to start looking.... well actually I know I should prob contract AMTRA and or VMD - just would rather not have to lol!

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Sal the 1st — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:05:37 GMT

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Hi there,

Yep my sister in law is a vn and set up her own buisness , here's the website.

http://www.petnursevisits.com/

She is pretty successful and I think just locumed one or two days a week to suppliment her income. I hope to do something similar or have a specialised nursing hospital at some point in my life. It would be nice to be able to work for ourselves instead of ways having to be under the permission of a vet!

Just grabbing as much exp with locuming and travelling right now then we'll see what the future brings :)

I used to do a lot of pet sitting too but took up too much of my life! You could probably easily pet sit/dog walk with an agency or set up an add on a forum somewhere and then drop down to part time work in practice once you have enough of a client base...

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I checked out the link and it looks good but just wondered on the services page on the flea and worming treatments (frontline, drontal,panacur) - is it a case that the owner purchases them from a vet or pharmacy and then the nurse administers them or does the nurse carry their own supply?

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Phrin Vernon RVN — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:54:36 GMT

I'm just in the process of trying to set up my own business - no customers so far but then it's early days - lots more leaflet dropping and advertising to be done! I'm hoping that if things pick up I can expand - get a vehicle and offer taxi services, and afford to set up for microchipping.

Behaviour has never been my forte so I won't be offering that anytime soon - looking more towards the dog walking, cat sitting side of things.

I'd also be interested in mobile vet nurse appointments, but am concerned about how that could be done without access to patient records.

Re: Setting up your rvn business

natasha schneider — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:03:29 GMT

Hi there,

Yep my sister in law is a vn and set up her own buisness , here's the website.

http://www.petnursevisits.com/

Just grabbing as much exp with locuming and travelling right now then we'll see what the future brings :)

Re: Setting up your rvn business

Gemma Burden RVN — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:16:14 GMT

I worked with a nurse that left to go travelling, and when she came back she went into cleaning as being a nurse she was already really good at that, but the money was much better. She then started dog walking for a lot of her clients, and as far as I know she still does this. I know this isn't a conventional route into the job, but I think her clients started asking her as they knew she was a VN. What made it even better for her was that she was doing a lot of walking anyway with her own dog, so was sort of being paid for something she would be doing anyway.
I have known a few nurses that had done pet sitting whilst still working as a VN, but I think you have to be careful if you do this as sometimes employers dont like it and people sometimes link the pet sitters to the vets.