HELP! EMERGENCY NURSING PROTOCOL

Re: HELP! EMERGENCY NURSING PROTOCOL

Jacqueline Gallacher — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:32:23 GMT

you could order louise O'dwyer and paul aldridge book- practical emergency and critical care veterinary nursing, your practice would probably pay for it and they do cpd talks too. Its a really good book to have in the practice.

patients should be seen if - they have abdominal swelling/distension, anything in respiratory distress, dystocia, any traumatic injuries, any bleeding from orifices or severe bleeding wounds, anything in pain, ingestion of toxins, burns, persistent vomitting, collapsed animals, pale or blue mucous membranes, not passing urine, neurological symptoms, weak animals, severe coughing, eye injuries.... probably more, hope that helps.

I would discuss which drugs and equipment your vets want in the emergency crash box

Re: HELP! EMERGENCY NURSING PROTOCOL

susiejane13 — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:35:42 GMT

Thanks guys, thats all really helpful. id really love to under take the vets now emergency and critical care course but im to nervous. im currently only doing 10 hours a week and have 2 kids not even in school yet. im worried i wont have enough time, and dont think i could sit the exams twice, i live in the midlands. has anyone out there got a piece of the course they could send me so i could see what level its at, and maybe what the exam questions are like?

Re: HELP! EMERGENCY NURSING PROTOCOL

AMANDA CURTIS — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:19:58 GMT

below is a link to the vets now website, it is information for owners to give a basic idea of what to do in particular emergencies maybe handy for your waiting area.

www.vets-now.com/infographic

the 2nd link is then the new RECOVER guidelines on CPR for veterinary practices, there are lots of links and charts that are handy for theaters and what kind of drugs to keep in a crash box's etc.

http://acvecc-recover.org/

the website below offer some cheap webinars, some are priced around the £10 mark, they may have some helpful information on their site

www.ecpd-vetnurse.com

Hope this has been of some help to you

Re: HELP! EMERGENCY NURSING PROTOCOL

Nick Shackleton — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:17:12 GMT

The list is endless to be fair. Cat can't pee, non productive vomiting, any sort of positioning, resp distress, etc... About courses have you looked at undertaking the Vets Now cert ECC VN???? Am sure work would fund this due to your new role. Crash trolley Three separate draws. Range of ET tubes, cannula, tape, tube tie, syringes, range of drugs, adrenaline, atropine, antihistamine etc... We used to have a trachyostomy kit in ours too. And a defibrillator Think it would be an idea to sit down with a senior vet and ask what they want in it. Look at crash trolleys alternatively look at mechanics trolleys Good luck