Visit from the college

RE: Visit from the college

Kim Rathbone — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 06:55:58 GMT

Thank you everyone and thank Ruth I will watch the webinar as well see what they have to say.

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Ruth Stewart — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:19:01 GMT

the RCVS have a webinar from February entitled 'Veterinary Nurses and the Law'. It is available to watch on webinarvet (link below). In the webinar Kathy Kissick and Gordon Hockey also discuss the roles of VCAs/ANAs etc. Its worth watching and also has CPD value.

https://www.thewebinarvet.com/webinar-category/rcvs-webinars/

RE: Visit from the college

SharonSP — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:33:49 GMT

Agree with everyone here, your college representative has got it very wrong with regards to the role of a VCA/ANA/kennel assistant. Our VCAs do everything apart from anaesthesia, meds & schedule 3 tasks, all tasks are under guidance from the nursing team and all TPR results are reported back to the nurses. They are as good as the training provided by the practice. We really appreciate them and they are a valuable member of the team and do help to take the pressure off the nurses.

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Kim Rathbone — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:03:42 GMT

Thanks for responses, I'm glad you agree as well, as I honestly don't think we would cope without them. They really take a lot of pressure of us so that we can concentrate on nursing care, everything is done either under supervision or under the direction of vet/nurse. They always ask questions as well, I agree with you Sal I think they need to understand the real world of vet practice. Hopefully they will send through more info on this so that we can set guidelines if we need to. Until then they will continue there duties as normal.

RE: Visit from the college

Nicola Smith — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:30:54 GMT

They may be referring to the literature from the rcvs which is doing the rounds basically identifying most tasks as schedule 3. I would ring the college and they can tell you a bit more about it. It was brought up at our last standardisation meeting.

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nikki84 — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:41:29 GMT

I must say I agree with the above. Having someone in and ANA/VCA/PCA role is invaluable in the clinic.
We employ PCA (patient care assistants) who are trained in the same manner as a student VN but cannot carry out specific tasks such as intravenous injections or catheter removals, blood taking etc etc. We do allow them to do pretty much everything else, but always under supervision.
There have always been people in this role where I have worked and that's now 15years!

RE: Visit from the college

Ben Ogden — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:26:57 GMT

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]

maybe your college bod needs an introduction to the real world, or at least to find out more about the role of the VCA/ANA - and I am being polite here!

http://www.caw.ac.uk/careers/veterinary-care-assistant/

http://www.myerscough.ac.uk/?page=course-search&action=factsheet&reference=20141186&query=&html-title=Animal%20Management%20(Animal%20Nursing%20Care%20Assistant)%20City%20&%20Guilds%20Level%203%2090%20Credit%20Diploma%20/%20Extended%20Diploma

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I'm with you on this Sal, a couple of good VCA's can really take the pressure off a nursing team.

RE: Visit from the college

Steph Worsley — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:52:19 GMT

Our auxillaries feed and walk our patients, but don't do TPRs, medicate or do anything like POCs

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Sal the 1st — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 08:58:08 GMT

maybe your college bod needs an introduction to the real world, or at least to find out more about the role of the VCA/ANA - and I am being polite here!

http://www.caw.ac.uk/careers/veterinary-care-assistant/