Re: ANA's in practice

Catherine Raymond — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:46:53 GMT

At the moment only an RVN or 2nd year SVN's do the clinics. Only the RVN does 2nd vaccs though. Thought it would be good to know what other practices do. We only have ever had RVN's do clinics, but as we are short have included the SVN's.

Re: ANA's in practice

Bekki2511 — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:39:25 GMT

I was under the impression it would be up to the individual practice, that could be wrong though! I was previously an ANA for one practice that asked me to do all nurse consults, including taking stitches out, microchipping and postop checks without any training (I wasn't a qualified ANA!) - in the end I refused as I thought it was wrong. I decided that if it was my pet having a post op check I wouldn't want anyone but a vet or qualified vet nurse to be doing it! The practice I'm now training at however doesn't let nurses do consults until they are qualified- except admissions and discharges if necessary out of hours! Would be really interested to see what other people say and have experienced though!