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RCVS updates guidance for VN training organisations
The VN Standards Framework details the professional values, knowledge, skills and behaviours that need to be met by those responsible for training veterinary nurses.
Update contains six overarching standards and how they can be evidenced.

The RCVS has published updated guidance for how veterinary nurses are educated and trained.

The College’s VN Standards Framework applies to higher education institutions and awarding bodies that set veterinary nursing curricula, the centres that deliver the courses, and the affiliated RCVS-approved training practices where student veterinary nurses carry out their placements. 

As with previous versions of the guidance, this new version contains six overarching standards (learning culture; governance and quality; student empowerment; educators and assessors; curricula and assessment; and effective clinical learning) and how they can be evidenced.

The update follows feedback from stakeholders and was approved at a meeting of the RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council in February 2021. 

“During 2020, accreditations and quality monitoring audits were conducted against the RCVS Standards Framework for Veterinary Nurse Education and Training,” explained Julie Dugmore, RCVS director of veterinary nursing. “Feedback from all involved was positive but reflected a need for clarification in some areas and further examples to assist with evidencing compliance.

“Since February 2021, four accreditations have been conducted against the updated standards, the results of which demonstrate a positive move towards the outcomes-based approach to accreditation and quality monitoring.”

The VN Standards Framework, approved in November 2019, details the professional values, knowledge, skills and behaviours that need to be met by those responsible for training student veterinary nurses. 

This latest update considers the feedback received from stakeholders following the application of new standards last year.

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Vets to run marathon for World Animal Protection

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 Two recently graduated veterinary surgeons will be running the London Marathon in April to raise money for the charity World Animal Protection.

Alex Bartlett and Maeve O'Neill plan to run the race together if they are given the same start times.

Dr O'Neill said: "You're always limited in what you can do to help animals, so it is nice to raise money for a charity that helps animals around the world."

Dr Bartlett added: "I have never run a marathon before and am excited to run my first one for such a good cause!"

Both Dr Bartlett and Dr O'Neill have fundraising pages online. 

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BSAVA releases new Guide to Procedures

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) has published a new edition of its Guide to Procedures for Small Animal Practice.

It has added four new procedures; cystostomy tube placement, endotracheal intubation, point-of-care ultrasound and wet-to-dry dressings.

BSAVA says that it is an essential step-by-step guide to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed in practice. The textbook includes new images and illustrations, as well as high-definition videos for use prior to procedures.

Nick Bexfield and Julia Riggs, editors of the new edition, said: "We have built upon the success of the previous editions by responding to the feedback received from the BSAVA readership, and hope this new guide helps to further increase the confidence and accuracy with which these procedures are performed."

Print copies are available in the BSAVA store, with a digital version in the BSAVA library.