Calling all SVN's... What do you want from a study guide or textbook??

RE: Calling all SVN's... What do you want from a study guide or textbook??

Jodie Hoare — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:00:31 GMT

Personally, I don't think that e-books are good for practical skills because the image quality is a bit rubbish and can be hard to teach and follow techniques when you are using them in work.

For subjects like nurse clinics and calculations an ebook would be useful as you could read it at home or college and make notes.

RE: Calling all SVN's... What do you want from a study guide or textbook??

Claire Kealey — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:26:27 GMT

From my experience I feel that calculations, especially dispensing medications and drug dosages, are not taught in the amount of detail required and I found it hard to find a good, detailed step by step book that covered these. I think many nurses are embarrassed to admit their maths skills aren't the best so rarely ask for help in lectures etc I know that was and still is my area to improve on in nursing. I also think anaesthesia monitoring for small furries would be something to add to as they are so different to dog and cats under anaesthesia.

RE: Calling all SVN's... What do you want from a study guide or textbook??

Tamzyn Lundy — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:24:34 GMT

Wow, thanks for all that! Really helpful to hear what others think about different formats And topics of interest.... as a student do you think you would consider buying e-books rather than traditional ones, via Amazon etc? Perhaps short guides on the topics you suggested such as bandaging / nurse clinics rather than all in one textbooks??

RE: Calling all SVN's... What do you want from a study guide or textbook??

Jodie Hoare — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:48:08 GMT

I've got a looooot of books! I have the BSAVA, Aspinall, and Orpet textbooks as a coverall. I prefer the BSAVA books format with the headings, pictures and the yellow box tutorials. The Orpet book has a lot of information that you can tell came from personal experience, so there's lots of handy tips in there. The content in the Aspinall book is great as it goes into a lot of detail, but the format is boring and doesn't stand out, so it doesn't always grasp my attention.

I have the BSAVA practical nursing and Aspinall clinical procedures books, both of which are great. I have a book by Sophia Yin on stress free handling which includes a lot of pictures and a DVD that goes through all the techniques on real animals that don't like to be handled. I think that a companion dvd would greatly improve the practical skills books as its hard to interpret a technique from a single picture and some text.

For seperate topics I have the Exotic nursing textbook and Aspinall A&P Textbook and Workbook, both of which are brilliant. I find the clinical language in the exotics book hard to understand so I have to look things up. The Aspinall A&P books are brilliant, but I think that they could benefit from an interactive dvd with animations and questions similar to those on Vetlogic.

Vetlogic is not a textbook but as a visual learner it increased my understanding of A&P.

I would like a wound management and bandaging book for vet nurses, similar to the discontinued Louise O'Dwyer one but with updated products, wound care/bandaging clinics, gaining client compliance, more info on the tie over bolus dressing and patient interference prevention other than buster collars.

I would also like to have a book dedicated to nurse clinics with up to date advice and tips for dealing with non compliant clients.

I am at the end of my first year, hope you found this helpful,

Jodie