Advice needed, please help!!

RE: Advice needed, please help!!

Sal the 1st — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:27:11 GMT

[quote user="Alison Clare Hickman"]

[quote user="sarahkat"]endless stinking waterproof[/quote]

Hahahaha - yes! Happy days, happy, smelly, days... (and rotten, festering expired foetal lambs and calves - poooh!)

And your nose knowing where the pig vets are at all times. Stinky MacPinky.

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had to laugh at that - I once had a vet complain for weeks about the stink in the practice escort. The vet that usually drove that car said he hadn't noticed anything , all was ok as far as he was aware and perhaps the other vet being a bit vertically challenged had a problem with his nose being too close to his backside (said in jest I think?)We eventually found one very soiled parturition gown (which had been missing for about two weeks in the space under the drivers seat. But get this the vet with no sense of smell hit the roof when I accidentally smashed a bottle of parentrovite in the boot of the same car and said he couldn't drive it until it had been cleaned umpteen times because the smell made him queasy

RE: Advice needed, please help!!

Alison Clare Hickman — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:31:34 GMT

[quote user="sarahkat"]endless stinking waterproof[/quote]

Hahahaha - yes! Happy days, happy, smelly, days... (and rotten, festering expired foetal lambs and calves - poooh!)

And your nose knowing where the pig vets are at all times. Stinky MacPinky.

RE: Advice needed, please help!!

sarahkat — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:06:45 GMT

I have worked in both. I really enjoyed the mixed aspect - LA drugs, farm visits, equine visits etc, not so fun cleaning endless stinking waterproofs the vets used to aim towards the washing machine and T.B kits and trying to sort out endless drug requests from farmers, competently. But it was educational. Currently in SA only and its fab, really enjoy it and to be fair don't miss the LA stuff. Toxic staff really depends on the practice and management I'm afraid. I have been bullied out of a job previously. But NOT everywhere is like it, my current job is lovely everyone is grown up and we all work as a team. Trust me nice places do exist X

RE: Advice needed, please help!!

Alison Clare Hickman — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:11:19 GMT

i trained and worked in a mixed practice. Loved it. Although we had dedicated large animal nurses who mainly attended farm and equine off-site work I did get to nurse equine, ovine, bovine and porcine patients on a regular basis on-site. Not to mention the odd alpaca and goat. Swan. Peacock. Goose... Etc! Never a dull day.

however, your reason for leaving SA is, you say, due to a toxic staff issue. I regret that you could find that ANYWHERE... ☹ so do your homework before potentially jumping from the frying pan into the fire!

Finally, I will state that my experience in mixed practice really advanced my nursing knowledge and confidence. So, if the practice is a great place to work human-wise, I say.... Do It!!

RE: Advice needed, please help!!

Sal the 1st — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:09:21 GMT

I have worked in mixed before (albeit a while ago) - for me it was getting used to two sets of drugs ie sa and la (with some cross overs), withdrawal periods etc , working out what the hell the farmers were on about on the phone ie was it an emergency as in happened that day? was it an emergency two days ago so needing an immediate response or the knacker man (quite possible) or was it just a little niggle that they wanted the necessary for to fix themselves. We had two visit bags too. Rarely did the la vets need nursing assistance on a visit but when they did it was usually either very mucky or bloody or both and any bruises/battle scars you got tended to be a bit bigger. Our only hospitalised cases were usually scouring calves, the odd horse and sometimes sheep (and then because the farmers 'forgot' to pick them up until they were sure they weren't going to snuff it). We were a 70/30 sa/la. It was rewarding then - don't know about now.