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The recently awarded Claire Rayner Scholarship for the Study of Compassion in Nursing/Midwifery Care demonstrates just how important compassionate nursing is: both in human nursing and the veterinary profession.
Tanya Caley has been working in practice for over seventeen years and has been heavily involved in nurse training for twelve of them. She hopes to be elected to VN Council and represent the views of everyday nurses.
Liz Branscombe is currently an elected member of VN Council and has been so for nearly five years, also taking on the role of Chairman in 2009. She says that she would like to "continue working towards changes that will allow a statutory register for RVNs".
Liz Cox, a senior nurse at a practice near Bristol, has been involved in the profession for the past twenty years. She hopes to be elected to VN Council this year and work to ensure that all nurses are "fit for purpose".
Rachel Smith, a VN currently working for Vets4Pets, has been involved with the veterinary profession for 18 years and, if elected to VN Council hopes to promote veterinary nursing to both those within and outside the veterinary field.
Voting in this year's VN Council elections have now opened, with veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses able to cast their votes online, by post or text message.
Elections for BVNA Council have begun and the association is hoping that its members will have their say on who represents veterinary nurses - either by nominating others or themselves.
