https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/24276/vet-nurse-training-with-cvs-group Hiya, Does anyone have any experience of doing their vet nurse training in a CVS practice?? I&#39;m particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has trained in the South West. Are they a good group to work for? Any bad experiences? Looking throughen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/149481?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:37:02 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:b78c5cb2-e890-490b-8264-a15688855586Fuzzyduck<p>They are run the same as any other practice other than certain &#39;restrictions&#39; on what/where you can buy products from. Most of these you can get round if needed. But while training this won&#39;t affect you as I doubt you&#39;ll be responsible for stock ordering. Otherwise training etc will be the same as other practices. They may write a clause in your contract that you have to work a certain amount of time post qualifying so you don&#39;t use them for training then leave as soon as you&#39;ve qualified, but this is common in many practices these days not just CVS. It costs a lot to train a nurse so a practice wants to get some use of you as a qualified nurse. Training places are so few and far between if you get one with any practice dont let the fact it&#39;s a corporate company put you off if it&#39;s what you want to do</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/149471?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:21:58 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:06124931-86d0-4739-ac8a-7bfa6753fb5bSmegSlayer<p>I did my training with a CVS practice in Kent and qualified in 2010.</p> <p>As far as training goes there was no difference to training with any other practice. All my fees and exams and travel to exams were paid for as was my registration fee. I did day release at college and that was classed as a day at &#39;work&#39; so was paid an 8 hour day which I know that one practice that a couple of girls in my year refused to do.</p> <p>The problems with CVS and other corporations is that the people managing areas and contracts with don&#39;t always have veterinary experience and are purely business based. For example when I was working for them CVS had a contract on Hills food so that was what we had to order. We had a cat with FLUTD who got horrendous diarrhoea with Hills c/d but was fine with RCW urinary so naturally we ordered that for him and occasionally we had a phone call or email from HO questioning why we were ordering a &#39;non-authorised&#39; product- it was difficult for the business people tp understand that one size doesn&#39;t necessarily fit all. We weren&#39;t allowed to order millpledge products which annoyed us because they were the only company we could find at the time who made large cotton buds which were great for dentals.</p> <p>You learn to manage and there are battles you can win but as far as training goes I had no complaints</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>