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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/28450/new-forum-profile-badges</link><description> Hi everyone, 
 I&amp;#39;ve tweaked the forum badging system as follows: 
 
 Everyone registered on the site as an RVN now gets an RVN badge against their name in the forums. 
There is a new badge based on the amount you contribute to the forums. Based on points</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161194?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:39:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:7a0a0fec-cd11-46eb-8039-e707a703fe1c</guid><dc:creator>Kate Dutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Super! Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161177?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:52:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:9f0a17fc-6c02-4097-bad7-ce434dc0dc39</guid><dc:creator>Steph Worsley</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;whoop thanks Arlo&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161176?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:44:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:4a502f75-7901-4b8c-b3b2-439154f0d845</guid><dc:creator>Arlo Guthrie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;there you go, &lt;a href="/members/steph" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Steph Worsley&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href="/members/kathari" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;Kate Dutton&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161167?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:07:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:1430382e-ac7d-49f2-9f59-94a02beb25f3</guid><dc:creator>Steph Worsley</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Arlo can I please have my Blue badge???&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161149?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:26:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:a02218ec-e817-4508-8236-3548c16688ed</guid><dc:creator>Kate Dutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you x&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161148?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:24:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:a7fbef3f-0de2-4555-a3f1-9e99fc074d7e</guid><dc:creator>Arlo Guthrie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, why not! But I have to make the badge, and I&amp;#39;m snowed under at the moment, will try and find a moment later today ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161147?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:23:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:0c8ada1e-c4e4-4e38-92b9-15a02a24615c</guid><dc:creator>Kate Dutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry Arlo, I asked if it were ok that my previous qualification showed too -&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;ve got a BSc Hons in Tropical Disease&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161146?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:21:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:f8f5f262-6c0b-447a-8b0d-065a86980b3a</guid><dc:creator>Arlo Guthrie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Kate Dutton&amp;quot;]Do we know if this is ok to go ahead?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Er, what is OK to go ahead?!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/161145?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:20:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:167fd269-1d09-4cb6-b268-5d839888de74</guid><dc:creator>Kate Dutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Do we know if this is ok to go ahead?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160465?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:34:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:db7dd9e2-c7c2-4892-91b5-906e52cf9563</guid><dc:creator>PSA-David</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;of course!&amp;nbsp; as people don&amp;#39;t realise, as nurses we may have done other very relevant courses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160460?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 20:29:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:83d15959-d6e5-44bd-aa38-89aec9bbd2c3</guid><dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;LOVE IT!&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160450?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 20:18:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:6b849106-e4e3-4f66-9df9-aae5fd3298ea</guid><dc:creator>Kate Dutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If we&amp;#39;re going down this road I&amp;#39;ve got a BSc Hons in Tropical Disease :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160448?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:27:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:6f754f49-6eaa-4fa4-97aa-b6d732f095ea</guid><dc:creator>PSA-David</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;h3 class="user-name"&gt;Laura James&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;div class="user-avatar"&gt;&lt;a href="/members/Laura_5F00_bsc/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;img alt="Laura James" src="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-imagefileviewer/communityserver-components-avatars-00-00-03-44-81/4TVGZ6RPNR9S.jpg_2D00_80x80.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; would need the Equine Science badge like myself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160011?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:18:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:cb312aee-4e0b-4d9d-9a53-64c6c52aa0b3</guid><dc:creator>PSA-David</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA&amp;quot;]Very nice I have both badges like a lot thanks.....I am very proud of my qualifications and happy to show them &lt;img alt="Big Smile" src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" /&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I agree, we all have studied a very long time not only to become RVN&amp;#39;s but to undertake other courses and degrees also. so lets display with pride. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/160006?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 20:44:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:6bf427c8-8fcf-457e-8197-c7623a17a5ff</guid><dc:creator>sananbaz</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Arlo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please can I have badges for my DipAVN (Surgical) and my BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing too?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you x&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159917?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 10:55:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:7c913e02-2ba0-4f96-bfe8-938e507895e8</guid><dc:creator>Sal the 1st</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can see it has opened a huge can of worms&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;badge or no badge!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How do you get that? -no huge can of worms, was just a polite request for Arlo to please remove my badge - which he has done and I am happy with. It isn&amp;#39;t and wasn&amp;#39;t a big issue - unless I am missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159915?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 09:38:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:9e13ecde-b930-449f-b5fb-1a4fe7c53f80</guid><dc:creator>Nicola Smith</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;How do i get my dipavn badge?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159895?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 09:47:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:7b08b990-e002-4226-87ec-6bdb9b566d83</guid><dc:creator>Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Very nice I have both badges like a lot thanks.....I am very proud of my qualifications and happy to show them &lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159894?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 09:45:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:e788036a-b7be-4755-b2a0-fc76234181d8</guid><dc:creator>Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I liked having my diploma badge so would prefer this if possible &lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt; I can see it has opened a huge can of worms&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;badge or no badge!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159891?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 08:45:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:dec5e6fb-32df-40ef-9d47-209262131036</guid><dc:creator>Mark Hedberg</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Caro Laithwaite VN,&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mark has some money riding on the request.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/quote] No worries, I&amp;#39;m safe, the money was place on someone asking!&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Hot_smiley.png" alt="Cool" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159881?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 20:05:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:69e3bfff-490f-4f26-8796-e5480084c209</guid><dc:creator>Caro Laithwaite VN</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Just put &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Neigh Teeth&amp;quot; in for the long equine one&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And can Sal and l have mammoth badges please. While l love my Rhino as it expresses me l just feel that well you offered us mammoths and l like mammoths also Mark has some money riding on the request.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159873?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 16:11:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:5cfa974c-2185-438c-8ee1-fd41cebb408e</guid><dc:creator>Arlo Guthrie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Heather88&amp;quot;]I am an SVN, but I also have a BSc Hons Equine Dental Science?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can see a bit of a problem looming ... the badges are only so big!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Think I might have to abbreviate it to BSc Hons Equine Dental&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159872?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 14:51:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:e5c7eab5-6841-4669-81cd-28d51ded3d4c</guid><dc:creator>Heather Bacon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am an SVN, but I also have a BSc Hons Equine Dental Science?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159869?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 11:10:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:7aef22fa-f3b7-4252-a522-8faabf3843de</guid><dc:creator>Arlo Guthrie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;PSA-David&amp;quot;]do I get an extra badge for having a BSc Equine Science honours degree?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/members/psa_2d00_david" class="internal-link view-user-profile"&gt;PSA-David&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- is that OK?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone else want a badge for advanced qualifications?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We do them on vetsurgeon.org, and I think they&amp;#39;re really helpful to see what people&amp;#39;s special area of knowledge is.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Caro Laithwaite VN,&amp;quot;]l may be wrong but l swear l heard Arlo&amp;#39;s deep sigh of Oh god those 2 again[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naaaaaah. It&amp;#39;s fine. Each to their own. I find the majority of people who contact me want to display the badge, but it&amp;#39;s no big deal for me to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Sal the 1st&amp;quot;]now I am happy[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here to please&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: New forum  / profile badges</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/159867?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 07:44:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:c7ef3813-972c-46ac-abe5-0ea2c91af747</guid><dc:creator>Sal the 1st</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;its just a preference thing for me - I prefer not to be branded just a little thing but now I am happy&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="/emoticons/new/Happy_smiley.png" alt="Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>