Picking Brains Time!!!

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

bongo — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:10:18 GMT

[quote user="Claire Millington"]

Hi Steph

Our top tip would be to sign up to the online VN CPD record – it has ideas for types of activities you can do and record as CPD, and lets you upload and store notes and certificates.

VNs can find out more and sign up at www.rcvs.org.uk/education/cpd-for-vns/professional-development-record-for-vns

Claire

RCVS Coms

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Claire I have misplaced/ forgotten my password to get on to this and have asked for an email with a new password about five times now but to no avail.

Sorry to hijack your thread Steph.... top tips.....mmmmmmmm

I know, always practise at taking pulses and always feel the pulse manually on an anaesthetised patient no matter how much monitoring you have. ECGs can look normal for a good couple of minutes in a dead animal! Sorry, is that a bit morbid?

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Claire Millington — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:24:07 GMT

Hi Steph

Our top tip would be to sign up to the online VN CPD record – it has ideas for types of activities you can do and record as CPD, and lets you upload and store notes and certificates.

VNs can find out more and sign up at www.rcvs.org.uk/education/cpd-for-vns/professional-development-record-for-vns

Claire

RCVS Coms

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Sal the 1st — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:29:53 GMT

[quote user="Susan Jackson"]

Ok serious then!

I've been left with animals to drip or get a catheter in that have been really depressed. If they arn't that responsive to clippers and shaving their legs I've used tourniquet and catheterised them on my own before. It's not a situation that I would have liked to be in but on call with one vet one nurse or Saturdays seem to be the prime times for these events.

Having emergency dose charts speaks for it's self but having a Vet run through an emergency situation and for the practice to discuss who would do what would be really important. Get the drugs out, often I've been in an emergency and the vials are still in the plastic holders and some brands do not open well.

Learn to tube with and without laryngoscope. You may have an RTA that you need to do this prior to Vets arriving in the morning (amazing how many cats get knocked over in morning rush hour). Again have a discussion with your practice and form a plan of how you deal with this emergency. This is another situation I've had to catheterise a cat on my own.

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Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Susan Jackson — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:06:19 GMT

Ok serious then!

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Alison Clare Hickman — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:35:16 GMT

Har har har! Or...saying "ooohh aarrr eeee, I can't get hold of it" when trying to extricate a madly flapping and maniacal mallard duck from a tiny eye-level kennel. It craps EVERYWHERE ...and a droplet of flying liquid poo lands on my lip and I go and lick my lip ....euuuuuuuwwwwwwwwrrrrgggghhhhh.

Moral of my story. Mmmmm mm mmmmm mm.(Keep yer flippin mouth shut!)

Seriously tho... how about some triage tips? Set the scene for some 'what if' senarios and get the nurses to discuss what they would/could do if presented with various emergencies and the vet wasn't immediately available to help. Handy to have this sort of info sitting in a box in the old brain ready to use when u need it...

Ali h

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Sal the 1st — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:58:38 GMT

lol - and yes I have done it! the other one is not walking into the muckiest stable in Lincolnshire breathing through your mouth so you arent overcome by the smell and inadvertently inhaling the biggest fly ever that decided to exit the stable at exactly the same moment you decide to take a breath - it still makes me shudder a couple of decades later

Re: Picking Brains Time!!!

Susan Jackson — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:42:31 GMT

You mean like, don't stand behind a dog open mouthed when squeezing anal glands?!? lol