Proceedings of the New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Association
Published by: New Zealand Veterinary Nursing AssociationThe New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Library on SciQuest contains the complete archive of annual conference proceedings of the New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Association (NZVNA) and a comprehensive archive of selected articles from the New Zealand Veterinary Nurse, the quarterly journal of the NZVNA. This library provides a unique collection of high-quality articles on a wide range of veterinary nursing topics, in fully indexed and searchable format. Access to the New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Library is granted to all members of the NZVNA as a benefit of membership, and is available to educational organisations and institutions by annual subscription. To become a member of the NZVNA, contact membership@nzvna.org.nz for subscription information follow the link above.
2025 Proceedings ( 2025 )
- Teamwork in action: veterinary nursing role in building effective veterinary care strategies
- Know your worth with pride and professionalism
- Reflective CPD practice
- Help! Which diet to use with co-morbidities
- Unleashing your patient's microbiome: Hill's Science Diet with ActivBiome+ Multi-Benefit bundle
- Canine and feline intubation tips and tricks
- Decoding the art of taking dental x-rays
- Below the gum - that's where we should be
- Cuff 'em: catching hypertension in senior cats - a guide for veterinary nurses to establish cat-friendly screening protocols
- Balancing act: anaesthesia considerations for pulmonary artery mass removal with inflow occlusion in a dog
- Itching for answers: nursing dermatology and ear disease in pets
- Paw-sitive changes: how nutrition can transform your pets' skin
- One framework to rule them all: simplifying chronic condition clinics
- Improve patient outcomes with complementary therapies
- Cooperative care: building low stress veterinary visits
- Lead, mange, nuture: what is my role as head veterinary nurse?
- A curious and positive approach to people and communication
- The neuroscience of the stress response
- Team based care - utilising nurses in the consult room in a team approach
- Effective and efficient: utilising the clinic support team for optimal patient, client, and team outcomes - unlocking performance through the veterinary clinic support teams
- Calm in the chaos: tackling anxiety in veterinary professionals
2024 Proceedings ( 2024 )
- Abdominal radiology review: seeing the hidden stuff
- Thoracic radiology review: seeing the hidden stuff
- Successful nutritional nurse consultations
- Forward-thinking nursing skills
- Supporting dogs physical and mental well-being through enrichment
- Rehabilitation in the veterinary clinic: post-op orthopaedic rehab for veterinary nurses
- Rough inductions and difficult recoveries
- Procedures for the neonate / paediatric patient
- Breathe like a brachy: the joys of anaesthetising brachycephalics
- Diabetic emergencies
- Changing the way we do things around here: optimising utilisation of staff in a veterinary practice
- Emergency anaesthesia
- Hijabi in the headlights
- Gastrointestinal parasites: management in small ruminants on lifestyle blocks
- Administering chemotherapy
- Nursing the cancer patient
- Wounds: tips and tricks to help manage equine wounds
- Becoming a unicorn team
- Understanding the generational gap
- Preventing burnout
- Coaching your team to win - how a small tweak in your communication can have a huge impact
- How to make the veterinary profession a sustainable career
2023 Proceedings ( 2023 )
- Shock has two faces: the keys to perfusion
- Going green with the team: Setting up an eco-group in your workplace
- Administering chemotherapy? Let’s talk best practice guidelines and techniques
- To clot or not to clot? Hemostatic disorders
- Behavioural considerations of the dermatology patient
- Food allergies in cats and dogs
- Wound healing: understanding the process
- The essential art of triage: sharpen your hands, eyes, ears, and mind
- Bandages in veterinary medicine
- Place that lifeline! Vascular access
- Basic ocular anatomy, physiology and pathology for veterinary nurses
- Addressing surgical conditions in brachycephalic breeds
- Practical nursing for ophthalmic cases
- Evidence-based CPR: the RECOVER guidelines on basic and advanced life support
- Nursing of neonatal intensive care patients - not just small horses
- The future of education for equine veterinary nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Advanced reproductive techniques for horses from AI to cloning
- Feeding approaches for horses after colic
- Radiation protection practices of equine veterinary nurses and technicians
- The power of happiness
- Difficult conversations don't need to be so difficult
- Enhancing wellbeing and facilitating career progression of allied veterinary professionals in New Zealand through clinical coaching: an effective approach
- Becoming more resilient to what life throws at us
- Turning passion into purpose: your inner compass
- Do I deserve to be here? Taming your inner impostor
2018 Proceedings ( 2018 )
- Caring for the critical pet
- Periodontal disease
- Monitoring the IV fluid therapy patient
- Fluid therapy: too many choices
- Saving teeth - alternatives to extraction
- Nursing care for the septic patient
- Emergency anaesthesia
- Pneumonia in the dog and cat
- The human animal bond
- CPR: RECOVER initiative
- Ischemia and reperfusion injury: when cells almost die
- Rough inductions and difficult recoveries
- Compassion fatigue and burnout - can I catch it?
- Nursing care of the upper airway surgery patient
2016 Proceedings of the NZVNA of the NZVA annual conference ( 2016 )
- Adding value to patient and client care in your practice
- Avian wildlife first aid and stabilisation
- Ban the surgical scrub
- Case study: Lead toxicity in an Australasian harrier
- Help to add value to veterinary practice and prevent the need for antibiotic use
- Modern analgesia - a team approach
- Myofascial pain - how it affects our patients
- Nutritional therapy for parrots with lipomas
- The Zero Pain Philosophy
- Tricks to help tell what is going on
- What veterinary nurses can do to help support their patient's immune systems
- You arrive at a scene of an emergency involving animals. You are asked to help. What should you do next?
Annual Conference 2014, FCE Publication number 322 ( 2014 )
- Anaesthesia for compromised patients
- Antimicrobial resistance - and why nurses should be worried
- Consulting in action: A report on nurse wellness clinics
- ECGs and arrhythmia identification
- How can you make a significant contribution to the advancement of veterinary medicine?
- Improving compliance of medication
- Management of the heat stroke patient: Exploring the pathophysiology to understand the treatment
- Modern analgesia: Part 1
- Modern analgesia: Part 2
- Placement and use of nasoesophageal tubes
- Seeing your clinic through the eyes of a cat: Reducing their stress and yours
- The Kiwi Care Team: Addressing the welfare of working equids in developing countries
Annual Conference 2012, FCE Publication number 298 ( 2012 )
- Are we fit for the future?
- Avian orthopaedic surgery
- Bouquets and Brickbats
- Common presentations of wildlife for treatment and rehab, and how to handle them
- Creative tools for managing compassion fatigue and stress
- Dental anatomy and pathology
- Disaster management: Christchurch style
- Future contribution of the New Zealand veterinary profession to science and science-informed policy
- Gizmos and gadgets: How does it work, what does it measure, and how can I get the most out of it?
- Gold standard veterinary nursing Care: Aim for excellence
- How to integrate what you learn into practice
- How to thrive on stress and stay sane in a crazy and changing world
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: The benefits for heart disease
- Illness and injury prevention: A Handbook for New Zealand vets
- Neither dog nor cat - Part I: Small mammals
- Neither dog nor cat - Part II: Birds, reptiles, and amphibians
- Physiotherapy
- Practical dentistry for veterinary nurses
- Risk factors for musculoskeletal problems in veterinarians
- Stem cell therapy
- The nurse-centered clinic
- The painful patient - differentiating between pain, dysphoria, and euphoria
- The practicalities and pitfalls of antibiotic prescribing
- The problem with overuse of antibiotics
- Treating wildlife in the clinic
- Understanding grief and supporting clients and colleagues through pet loss
- Wildlife critical care
Annual Conference 2011, FCE Publication number 286 ( 2011 )
- Behavioural considerations in the older dogs
- Changes to ACVM: Veterinary operating instructions, changes that affect you
- Conditioning and rehabilitation of seabirds
- Conducting and interpreting research in practice: How solid is your evidence?
- CSI: Cocci, struvites, and interesting yeast - In-clinic preparation and interpretation of ear smears and urine sediment
- Educating your clients with professional service
- Excelling in customer service: Turning your clients into advocates
- First aid and husbandry of native New Zealand birds
- Interpreting blood results: Facts and fallicies
- Knowing your limits and when to refer
- National Animal Identifi cation Tracing (NAIT)
- Parasitology through the kaleidoscope, the microscope, and the telescope
- Safeguarding the veterinary nurse doing "the right - and the lawful - thing"
- Staying alive: A primer for veterinary technicians who work with horses
- Suppliers and practices: In it together
- The large animal technician's role in fi eld surgery
- Understanding reproduction and practical interventions in dairy cattle in New Zealand seasonal supply farm systems
- What will your business look like in 2020?
Annual Conference 2010 ( 2010 )
- Cats with Smashed Faces - Management of Facial Trauma In The Cat
- Chemotherapy Safety in Veterinary Medicine
- Critical Care Nutrition
- Life Saving Emergency Room Techniques
- Management of The Shock Trauma Patient
- Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient: How to Tell When Your Patient Is In Trouble
- Nursing Management of The Acute Renal Failure Patient
- Oxygen Therapy - Chasing The Blues Away
- Post Operative and Anesthetic Complications
- Utilization of The Nursing Process For Veterinary Technicians
- Wound Care and Bandaging
Annual Conference 2009, FCE Publication number 279 ( 2009 )
- Artificial Insemination
- Assessing Anemia
- Breed Related Ocular Problems
- Chemotherapy and Nurses: What Part Does the Nurse Play in Cancer Treatment?
- Conflict in the Workplace
- Cows Hooves and the Veterinary Technician
- Deer Velveting: Introduction and Restraint Methods
- Deer Velveting: Removal Procedure and Considerations
- Diabetes in Dogs and Cats: an Update
- Dysuria: Outflow Obstruction
- Future and Present of Large Animal Veterinary Technicians
- Leptospirosis Vaccination Programme
- Medical Management of Canine Osteoarthritis: Current Thoughts
- Monitoring in the ICU
- Monitoring the Anesthetized Patient
- Neonates
- Ophthalmic Emergencies
- Ophthalmic Surgery
- Our Expectations for Client Service At the Pet Emergency and Specialty Center To the Client, You are the Company
- Pancreatitis in Dogs and Cats
- Perioperative Pain Management in Dogs and Cats: Tips and Techniques
- Principles and Practice of Manipulation of the Oestrous Cycle in Large Animals
- Rural Animal Technician in Practice
- Soft Tissue Surgery
- The Ins and Outs of the Ups and Downs: The Science Behind Downer Cows
- Therapies in Shock: Sepsis Resuscitation
- Toxicology and Poisoning
- Understanding Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
- Practical calf rearing : The role of the vet nurse and technician in the diagnosis and treatments
Annual Conference 2008, FCE Publication number 271 ( 2008 )
- Pancreatitis - A nursing perspective
- Small animal dentistry
- Improving radiographic image quality
- Health issues with senior cats
- The development and training of the narcotic detector dog
- Local anaesthesia and nerve blocks
- Nursing the diabetic patient
- Recent advances in Internal Medicine
- Management of canine Cushing's syndrome
- Value added veterinary nursing
- Anaesthetic monitoring without the fancy toys
- Management of canine hypoadrenocorticism - Addison's disease
- The critical need for nutritional support
- Hill's prescription diet a/d and jevity for tube feeding cats
- Anaesthetic monitoring - Lines and numbers !
- Early age neutering
Annual Conference 2007, FCE Publication number 263 ( 2007 )
- Understanding sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
- Therapies in shock : Sepsis resuscitation
- Assessing anemia
- Dysuria : Outflow obstruction
- Soft tissue surgery
- Neonates
- Artificial insemination
- Monitoring the anesthetized patient
- Monitoring in the ICU
- Ophthalmic emergencies
- Conflict in the workplace
- Diabetes in dogs and cats - an update
- Pancreatitis in dogs and cats
- Perioperative pain management in dogs and cats : Tips and techniques
- Medical management of canine osteoarthritis : Current thoughts
- Chemotherapy and nurses : What part does the nurse play in cancer treatment ?
- Toxicology and poisoning
- Our expectations for client service
- Ophthalmic surgery
- Breed related ocular problems
- Principles and practice of manipulation of the oestrous cycle in large animals
- The ins and outs of the ups and downs : The science behind downer cows
- Deer velveting : Introduction and restraint methods
- Deer velveting : Removal procedure and considerations
- Rural animal technician in practice
- Cow's hooves and the veterinary technician
- Leptospirosis vaccination programme
- Future and present of large animal veterinary technicians
Annual Conference 2006, FCE Publication number 252 ( 2006 )
- Local analgesic techniques in dogs
- Wound care in dogs and cats for the veterinary nurse
- Veterinary nurse health care clinics ? added value for your clients and your practice
- Pain in companion animals
- The complete dental prophylaxis : protocols including oral examination, oral radiography, canine and feline extraction techniques
- Equine nutrition
- The malpositioned image ? a hindrance to diagnosis
- Surgical nursing : fear or fun ?
- Advanced surgical nursing
- Animal behaviour problems ? the role of the veterinary nurse
- Selected topics in ear, nose and throat medicine
- Monitoring and nursing care of the critically ill patient
- Electrocardiography ? a stepwise approach
- What's new concerning canine and feline infectious diseases?
- Nutrition in severe illness
- Nutrition for geriatrics
- Intensive care monitoring of the acute renal failure patient
- Intensive nursing care of a severe parvovirus enteritis patient
- Disasters ? dilemma, crisis or opportunity?
Annual Conference 2005, FCE Publication number 244 ( 2005 )
- Nutrition essentials
- The critical need for nutritional support
- A learning community for veterinary nurses
- The philosophy of good pain management
- Opioid analgesia
- Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Local and regional anaesthetics
- Lameness examination in the horse
- Introduction to analgesic options for acute and chronic pain management
- Radiography review
- Advanced diagnostic imaging
- Adjunctive and advanced therapies for pain management
- Cardiac critical care
- Basic and advanced pharmacology of antibiotics
- General anaesthesia and physiology: the effects of anaesthesia on vital organ function and homeostasis
Annual Conference 2004, FCE Publication number 237 ( 2004 )
- The nurse's role in reproduction clinics
- Whelping ? do's and don'ts
- A tale of cats and conditioning
- Uki ? advanced diploma in surgical nursing
- Developing veterinary nurses as rural technicians
- Laboratory introduction for veterinary nurses
- Animal health advice for lifestyle blocks
- The nurses' role in practice standards
- Health and safety in pregnancy and lactation
- The critical need for nutritional support
- Nutritional management of feline diabetes mellitus
- Feline lower urinary tract disease
- Pharmacology ? do's and don'ts
- New (and old) regulations
- Intubation in animal patients ? ?animal intubations, great and small÷
- Nursing care of K2, a North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx australis mantelli) - first steps forward at 8 years old
- People responding to wildlife affected by marine oil spills
Annual Conference 2003, FCE Publication number 230 ( 2003 )
- Farm animal emergencies
- Diabetes mellitus: what's new, what should we know & what should we do?
- Parasite control and mineral supplements
- Ocular emergencies ? what do you need, what do you do?
- Common eye conditions and ocular pharmacology
- A nursing guide to the canine coat: structure, function and maintenance
- A nursing guide to the canine coat: maintenance therapeutic shampooing
- Wound care
- Problem wounds and case studies
- Equine emergencies and first aid ? part 1
- Equine emergencies and first aid ? part 2
- Equine colic ? part 1: causes, presentation, history taking and initial clinical examination
- Equine colic ? part 2: medical and surgical management, treatment and monitoring
- Care of injured native birds
- Care and common conditions of companion birds
- Current thoughts on companion animal revaccination practices
- Ethics in veterinary practice
- Pain in companion animals
Annual Conference 2002, FCE Publication number 221 ( 2002 )
- Critical illness
- Therapy of shock
- Physical therapy for animals
- Equine wound management
- The human animal bond
- Equine preventative medicine
- Intravenous catheters - placement and maintenance
- Treatment and nursing care of poisoned pets
- Dermatology for veterinary nurses
- Cardiac critical care
- Critical monitoring
- Electrocardiography workshop
- Large animal faecal egg counting
- Stress and burnout in technicians
- Respiratory critical care
- Nursing cats with hyperthyroidism
- Small animal blood transfusions
- The veterinary nurses role in the prevention and correction of feline behaviour problems
- Puppy preschool - the follow up
Annual Conference 2001, FCE Publication number 212 ( 2001 )
- Dynamic veterinary business management
- Radiographic positioning
- Basic interpretation of radiographs
- The elimination of artefacts by practising good radiography
- Acute renal failure ? initial recognition and treatment needs
- Chronic renal failure
- Diabetes mellitus ? aetiology and management
- Wound management
- Cardiac disease
- Management of the patient with cardiac disease
- Consequences of gastrointestinal disease
- Nutritional management of gastrointestinal disease
- Marketing the veterinary clinic (a veterinary nurse perspective)
- Haematology - Making and staining blood smears
- Preparation of laboratory samples
- An introduction to diagnostic cytology : General principles
- Recent advances in cancer therapy
- Principles of crystalloid fluid therapy
- Fluid therapy plans: case-based examples
Annual Conference 2000, FCE Publication number 200 ( 2000 )
- Clinical pharmacology of pain management in small animal practice
- Nursing care protocols for the critically ill
- Monitoring the critically ill patient
- Introduction to ultrasound
- The nursing management of the diabetic ketoacidotic patient
- Wound management
- New concepts in fracture healing - the role of the external fixator
- Nursing management of the gastric dilatation - volvulus (god) patient
- Initial management of the emergent or critically ill patient: a conceptual approach
- Emergency lifesaving techniques and procedures
- Sterilisation - a veterinary point of view
- Health and safety in the veterinary clinic
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Intravenous catheter placement
- Anaesthetic machine maintenance
- Feline hyperthyroidism: the veterinary nurses perspective
- Cancer therapy: the veterinary nurses perspective
- Fluid therapy
Annual Conference 1999, FCE Publication number 190 ( 1999 )
- Effective practical bandaging techniques
- Physical therapy for the spinal case
- Taking samples
- Feline lower urinary tract disease
- Gastric dilatation volvulus
- Nursing the cancer patient
- Setting up a small animal intensive care facility
- Understanding shock
- An introduction to general anaesthesia
- Inhalational anaesthetic agents and human safety minimising exposure to trace amounts of anaesthetic gases
- Introduction to role of surgical assistant
- Theatre practice
- Monitoring the anaesthetised patient ? basic monitoring techniques
- Management of the fracture patient, repair methods, equipment used plus maintenance
- Monitoring the anaesthetised patient ? advanced monitoring techniques
- Oncology for veterinary nurses
- Pain recognition and assessment in companion animals
- Dermatology for veterinary nurses
- Critical care ? in surgical patients
- Critical care surgical nursing
- Recognising and managing common anaesthetic complications
- Instrument care/maintenance and sterilisation
- The recovery period ? care for cats and dogs recovering from general anaesthesia
- Nursing care of the spinal patient
- Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Hip dysplasia and methods of surgical repair
- Avian anaesthesia - an introduction
Annual Conference 1998, FCE Publication number 185 ( 1998 )
Annual Conference 1997, FCE Publication number 177 ( 1997 )
- Emergency nursing - basic concepts of readiness
- Emergency nursing - monitoring and assessing vital signs
- Basic laboratory monitoring
- Blood component therapy - the whys, whens and hows
- Considerations in the care of the critically ill parvovirus patient
- Considerations in the care of the postoperative patient
- Equine emergencies and the veterinary nurse
- Emergency and supportive care for the avian patient
- Nursing aspects of small animal poisoning cases
- Oestrus control in bitches and queens
- An introduction to veterinary radiology
- Fluid therapy in small animal practice
- Radiographic positioning and restraint
Annual Conference 1995, FCE Publication number 164 ( 1995 )
- ASIF technique for veterinary nurses
- Post anaesthetic complications in large animals
- Post operative surgical orthopaedic nursing
- Radiographic safety - do you work in a safe practice? If not - why not?
- Chemotherapy and radiotherapy
- Information packages for farmers
- Farmers' expectations of veterinary nurses
- Pocket pets
- Feline immuno-deficiency virus
- The role of zoo veterinary nursing in the conservation of kakapo at Auckland zoological park
- The pet health counsellor programme
- Grief counselling
Annual Conference 1994, FCE Publication number 160 ( 1994 )
- Personal and interpersonal skills in dealing with customers and suppliers
- Practice ethics for veterinary nurses
- Visual merchandising
- Welcome to our clinic
- The hospitalized patient
- Spinal and pelvic injuries
- Geriatrics
- Gastro-intestinal surgery and post-op care
- Nutrition in critical care patients - enteral nutrition
- A nurses guide to the NZVA hip dysplasia scheme
- Radiation safety - how safe are you?
- Care of casts and bandages
Annual Conference 1993, FCE Publication number 153 ( 1993 )
- The first aid and emergency treatment of wild birds
- Notes on caring for injured or sick birds
- The red-eared terrapin (Pseudemys scripta elegans)
- Some wildlife case histories
- Avian and laboratory animal species anaesthesia
- Safe and correct use of animal remedies
- Preparation for surgery
- Preparation of the patient
- Anaesthesia circuits
- Establishing and maintaining fluid therapy in small animals
- Monitoring the equine patient
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in small animals
Annual Conference 1992, FCE Publication number 146 ( 1992 )
- Veterinary expectations of nursing assistance
- The role of the veterinary nurse in emergencies
- Acute haemorrhage/bandaging
- Human post-operative monitoring
- Veterinary post-operative monitoring
- Safe use of anaesthetic gases
- Post operative analgesia
- Zoonoses of companion animals
- Over-the-counter advice on anthelmintics and worm control
- Flea control: products and their usage
- Standard procedures for dealing with acute poisonings
- Cat and dog foods: dietary advice to owners
Annual Conference 1991, FCE Publication number 137 ( 1991 )
- Veterinary nursing around the world
- The first impressions
- Caring for your clients
- Interpersonal skills
- Special problems in the clinic
- Merchandising and counter sales
- Safe handling of animals
- Preparation and handling of samples
- Safety and handling of drugs
- Monitoring anaesthesia
- Post-operative monitoring
- Canine diabetes mellitus
- Cleaning, disinfection, sterilisation
- Collection of blood and urine samples from the dog, cat and bird
Articles
- Adding value to patient and client care in your practice
- Anaesthesia for compromised patients
- Antimicrobial resistance - and why nurses should be worried
- Are we fit for the future?
- Artificial Insemination
- Assessing Anemia
- Avian orthopaedic surgery
- Avian wildlife first aid and stabilisation
- Ban the surgical scrub
- Behavioural considerations in the older dogs
- Bouquets and Brickbats
- Breed Related Ocular Problems
- Case study: Lead toxicity in an Australasian harrier
- Cats with Smashed Faces - Management of Facial Trauma In The Cat
- Changes to ACVM: Veterinary operating instructions, changes that affect you
- Chemotherapy and Nurses: What Part Does the Nurse Play in Cancer Treatment?
- Chemotherapy Safety in Veterinary Medicine
- Common presentations of wildlife for treatment and rehab, and how to handle them
- Conditioning and rehabilitation of seabirds
- Conducting and interpreting research in practice: How solid is your evidence?
- Conflict in the Workplace
- Consulting in action: A report on nurse wellness clinics
- Cows Hooves and the Veterinary Technician
- Creative tools for managing compassion fatigue and stress
- Critical Care Nutrition
- CSI: Cocci, struvites, and interesting yeast - In-clinic preparation and interpretation of ear smears and urine sediment
- Deer Velveting: Introduction and Restraint Methods
- Deer Velveting: Removal Procedure and Considerations
- Dental anatomy and pathology
- Diabetes in Dogs and Cats: an Update
- Disaster management: Christchurch style
- Dysuria: Outflow Obstruction
- ECGs and arrhythmia identification
- Educating your clients with professional service
- Excelling in customer service: Turning your clients into advocates
- First aid and husbandry of native New Zealand birds
- Future and Present of Large Animal Veterinary Technicians
- Future contribution of the New Zealand veterinary profession to science and science-informed policy
- Gizmos and gadgets: How does it work, what does it measure, and how can I get the most out of it?
- Gold standard veterinary nursing Care: Aim for excellence
- Help to add value to veterinary practice and prevent the need for antibiotic use
- How can you make a significant contribution to the advancement of veterinary medicine?
- How to integrate what you learn into practice
- How to thrive on stress and stay sane in a crazy and changing world
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: The benefits for heart disease
- Illness and injury prevention: A Handbook for New Zealand vets
- Improving compliance of medication
- Interpreting blood results: Facts and fallicies
- Knowing your limits and when to refer
- Leptospirosis Vaccination Programme
- Life Saving Emergency Room Techniques
- Management of the heat stroke patient: Exploring the pathophysiology to understand the treatment
- Management of The Shock Trauma Patient
- Medical Management of Canine Osteoarthritis: Current Thoughts
- Modern analgesia - a team approach
- Modern analgesia: Part 1
- Modern analgesia: Part 2
- Monitoring in the ICU
- Monitoring the Anesthetized Patient
- Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient: How to Tell When Your Patient Is In Trouble
- Myofascial pain - how it affects our patients
- National Animal Identifi cation Tracing (NAIT)
- Neither dog nor cat - Part I: Small mammals
- Neither dog nor cat - Part II: Birds, reptiles, and amphibians
- Neonates
- Nursing Management of The Acute Renal Failure Patient
- Nutritional therapy for parrots with lipomas
- Ophthalmic Emergencies
- Ophthalmic Surgery
- Our Expectations for Client Service At the Pet Emergency and Specialty Center To the Client, You are the Company
- Oxygen Therapy - Chasing The Blues Away
- Pancreatitis in Dogs and Cats
- Parasitology through the kaleidoscope, the microscope, and the telescope
- Perioperative Pain Management in Dogs and Cats: Tips and Techniques
- Physiotherapy
- Placement and use of nasoesophageal tubes
- Post Operative and Anesthetic Complications
- Practical dentistry for veterinary nurses
- Principles and Practice of Manipulation of the Oestrous Cycle in Large Animals
- Risk factors for musculoskeletal problems in veterinarians
- Rural Animal Technician in Practice
- Safeguarding the veterinary nurse doing "the right - and the lawful - thing"
- Seeing your clinic through the eyes of a cat: Reducing their stress and yours
- Soft Tissue Surgery
- Staying alive: A primer for veterinary technicians who work with horses
- Stem cell therapy
- Suppliers and practices: In it together
- The Ins and Outs of the Ups and Downs: The Science Behind Downer Cows
- The Kiwi Care Team: Addressing the welfare of working equids in developing countries
- The large animal technician's role in fi eld surgery
- The nurse-centered clinic
- The painful patient - differentiating between pain, dysphoria, and euphoria
- The practicalities and pitfalls of antibiotic prescribing
- The problem with overuse of antibiotics
- The Zero Pain Philosophy
- Therapies in Shock: Sepsis Resuscitation
- Toxicology and Poisoning
- Treating wildlife in the clinic
- Tricks to help tell what is going on
- Understanding grief and supporting clients and colleagues through pet loss
- Understanding reproduction and practical interventions in dairy cattle in New Zealand seasonal supply farm systems
- Understanding Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
- Utilization of The Nursing Process For Veterinary Technicians
- What veterinary nurses can do to help support their patient's immune systems
- What will your business look like in 2020?
- Wildlife critical care
- Wound Care and Bandaging
- You arrive at a scene of an emergency involving animals. You are asked to help. What should you do next?
- Abdominal radiology review: seeing the hidden stuff
- ASIF technique for veterinary nurses
- Caring for the critical pet
- Clinical pharmacology of pain management in small animal practice
- Critical illness
- Dynamic veterinary business management
- Effective practical bandaging techniques
- Emergency nursing - basic concepts of readiness
- Farm animal emergencies
- Local analgesic techniques in dogs
- Nutrition essentials
- Pancreatitis - A nursing perspective
- Personal and interpersonal skills in dealing with customers and suppliers
- Practical calf rearing : The role of the vet nurse and technician in the diagnosis and treatments
- Shock has two faces: the keys to perfusion
- Teamwork in action: veterinary nursing role in building effective veterinary care strategies
- The first aid and emergency treatment of wild birds
- The nurse's role in reproduction clinics
- Understanding sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
- Veterinary expectations of nursing assistance
- Veterinary nursing around the world
- Therapy of shock
- Know your worth with pride and professionalism
- Periodontal disease
- The first impressions
- The role of the veterinary nurse in emergencies
- Therapies in shock : Sepsis resuscitation
- Wound care in dogs and cats for the veterinary nurse
- Going green with the team: Setting up an eco-group in your workplace
- Monitoring the IV fluid therapy patient
- Physical therapy for the spinal case
- Practice ethics for veterinary nurses
- Small animal dentistry
- Thoracic radiology review: seeing the hidden stuff
- Notes on caring for injured or sick birds
- Administering chemotherapy? Let’s talk best practice guidelines and techniques
- Physical therapy for animals
- The critical need for nutritional support
- Assessing anemia
- Caring for your clients
- Fluid therapy: too many choices
- Reflective CPD practice
- Taking samples
- Veterinary nurse health care clinics ? added value for your clients and your practice
- Radiographic positioning
- Successful nutritional nurse consultations
- To clot or not to clot? Hemostatic disorders
- Forward-thinking nursing skills
- Help! Which diet to use with co-morbidities
- Improving radiographic image quality
- Nursing care protocols for the critically ill
- Saving teeth - alternatives to extraction
- Basic interpretation of radiographs
- Dysuria : Outflow obstruction
- Equine wound management
- Interpersonal skills
- Unleashing your patient's microbiome: Hill's Science Diet with ActivBiome+ Multi-Benefit bundle
- Visual merchandising
- Whelping ? do's and don'ts
- A learning community for veterinary nurses
- Behavioural considerations of the dermatology patient
- Canine and feline intubation tips and tricks
- Health issues with senior cats
- Nursing care for the septic patient
- Pain in companion animals
- Supporting dogs physical and mental well-being through enrichment
- Post anaesthetic complications in large animals
- Diabetes mellitus: what's new, what should we know & what should we do?
- Feline lower urinary tract disease
- Monitoring the critically ill patient
- The red-eared terrapin (Pseudemys scripta elegans)
- Decoding the art of taking dental x-rays
- Emergency anaesthesia
- Rehabilitation in the veterinary clinic: post-op orthopaedic rehab for veterinary nurses
- Special problems in the clinic
- The elimination of artefacts by practising good radiography
- Food allergies in cats and dogs
- The philosophy of good pain management
- Below the gum - that's where we should be
- Emergency nursing - monitoring and assessing vital signs
- Merchandising and counter sales
- Parasite control and mineral supplements
- Pneumonia in the dog and cat
- Soft tissue surgery
- The human animal bond
- Welcome to our clinic
- Gastric dilatation volvulus
- The development and training of the narcotic detector dog
- The hospitalized patient
- Wound healing: understanding the process
- Introduction to ultrasound
- A tale of cats and conditioning
- Acute haemorrhage/bandaging
- Acute renal failure ? initial recognition and treatment needs
- Cuff 'em: catching hypertension in senior cats - a guide for veterinary nurses to establish cat-friendly screening protocols
- Equine preventative medicine
- Opioid analgesia
- Post operative surgical orthopaedic nursing
- The complete dental prophylaxis : protocols including oral examination, oral radiography, canine and feline extraction techniques
- The essential art of triage: sharpen your hands, eyes, ears, and mind
- The human animal bond
- CPR: RECOVER initiative
- Local anaesthesia and nerve blocks
- Some wildlife case histories
- Spinal and pelvic injuries
- Balancing act: anaesthesia considerations for pulmonary artery mass removal with inflow occlusion in a dog
- Bandages in veterinary medicine
- Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Rough inductions and difficult recoveries
- Safe handling of animals
- Uki ? advanced diploma in surgical nursing
- Radiographic safety - do you work in a safe practice? If not - why not?
- The nursing management of the diabetic ketoacidotic patient
- Chronic renal failure
- Geriatrics
- Place that lifeline! Vascular access
- Basic laboratory monitoring
- Intravenous catheters - placement and maintenance
- Ischemia and reperfusion injury: when cells almost die
- Itching for answers: nursing dermatology and ear disease in pets
- Local and regional anaesthetics
- Nursing the diabetic patient
- Ocular emergencies ? what do you need, what do you do?
- Preparation and handling of samples
- Procedures for the neonate / paediatric patient
- Developing veterinary nurses as rural technicians
- Gastro-intestinal surgery and post-op care
- Human post-operative monitoring
- Neonates
- Wound management
- Avian and laboratory animal species anaesthesia
- Basic ocular anatomy, physiology and pathology for veterinary nurses
- Diabetes mellitus ? aetiology and management
- Laboratory introduction for veterinary nurses
- Lameness examination in the horse
- Recent advances in Internal Medicine
- Rough inductions and difficult recoveries
- Treatment and nursing care of poisoned pets
- Chemotherapy and radiotherapy
- Nutrition in critical care patients - enteral nutrition
- Addressing surgical conditions in brachycephalic breeds
- Breathe like a brachy: the joys of anaesthetising brachycephalics
- Paw-sitive changes: how nutrition can transform your pets' skin
- Safety and handling of drugs
- Blood component therapy - the whys, whens and hows
- Common eye conditions and ocular pharmacology
- Compassion fatigue and burnout - can I catch it?
- Introduction to analgesic options for acute and chronic pain management
- Practical nursing for ophthalmic cases
- New concepts in fracture healing - the role of the external fixator
- Diabetic emergencies
- One framework to rule them all: simplifying chronic condition clinics
- Wound management
- Equine nutrition
- Evidence-based CPR: the RECOVER guidelines on basic and advanced life support
- Management of canine Cushing's syndrome
- Nursing care of the upper airway surgery patient
- Artificial insemination
- Considerations in the care of the critically ill parvovirus patient
- Improve patient outcomes with complementary therapies
- Safe and correct use of animal remedies
- Veterinary post-operative monitoring
- Nursing management of the gastric dilatation - volvulus (god) patient
- Animal health advice for lifestyle blocks
- Changing the way we do things around here: optimising utilisation of staff in a veterinary practice
- Cardiac disease
- A nursing guide to the canine coat: structure, function and maintenance
- Cooperative care: building low stress veterinary visits
- Dermatology for veterinary nurses
- Nursing of neonatal intensive care patients - not just small horses
- Nursing the cancer patient
- Radiography review
- Considerations in the care of the postoperative patient
- Emergency anaesthesia
- Lead, mange, nuture: what is my role as head veterinary nurse?
- A nurses guide to the NZVA hip dysplasia scheme
- Information packages for farmers
- A curious and positive approach to people and communication
- Monitoring the anesthetized patient
- Preparation for surgery
- Safe use of anaesthetic gases
- The future of education for equine veterinary nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Value added veterinary nursing
- Initial management of the emergent or critically ill patient: a conceptual approach
- Management of the patient with cardiac disease
- Advanced diagnostic imaging
- Advanced reproductive techniques for horses from AI to cloning
- Cardiac critical care
- Monitoring in the ICU
- Farmers' expectations of veterinary nurses
- A nursing guide to the canine coat: maintenance therapeutic shampooing
- Anaesthetic monitoring without the fancy toys
- Hijabi in the headlights
- The neuroscience of the stress response
- Consequences of gastrointestinal disease
- Critical monitoring
- Emergency lifesaving techniques and procedures
- Feeding approaches for horses after colic
- Ophthalmic emergencies
- Post operative analgesia
- Preparation of the patient
- Radiation safety - how safe are you?
- Setting up a small animal intensive care facility
- Adjunctive and advanced therapies for pain management
- Team based care - utilising nurses in the consult room in a team approach
- The malpositioned image ? a hindrance to diagnosis
- Nutritional management of gastrointestinal disease
- Conflict in the workplace
- Gastrointestinal parasites: management in small ruminants on lifestyle blocks
- Management of canine hypoadrenocorticism - Addison's disease
- Radiation protection practices of equine veterinary nurses and technicians
- Understanding shock
- Wound care
- Care of casts and bandages
- Anaesthesia circuits
- Cardiac critical care
- Effective and efficient: utilising the clinic support team for optimal patient, client, and team outcomes - unlocking performance through the veterinary clinic support teams
- Electrocardiography workshop
- Surgical nursing : fear or fun ?
- Zoonoses of companion animals
- Marketing the veterinary clinic (a veterinary nurse perspective)
- Administering chemotherapy
- Calm in the chaos: tackling anxiety in veterinary professionals
- Equine emergencies and the veterinary nurse
- Monitoring anaesthesia
- Sterilisation - a veterinary point of view
- The critical need for nutritional support
- The power of happiness
- Difficult conversations don't need to be so difficult
- Large animal faecal egg counting
- Pocket pets
- Basic and advanced pharmacology of antibiotics
- Diabetes in dogs and cats - an update
- Enhancing wellbeing and facilitating career progression of allied veterinary professionals in New Zealand through clinical coaching: an effective approach
- Nursing the cancer patient
- Over-the-counter advice on anthelmintics and worm control
- The nurses' role in practice standards
- Haematology - Making and staining blood smears
- Establishing and maintaining fluid therapy in small animals
- Stress and burnout in technicians
- Preparation of laboratory samples
- Advanced surgical nursing
- Becoming more resilient to what life throws at us
- Emergency and supportive care for the avian patient
- Health and safety in the veterinary clinic
- Wounds: tips and tricks to help manage equine wounds
- Hill's prescription diet a/d and jevity for tube feeding cats
- Pancreatitis in dogs and cats
- Respiratory critical care
- Turning passion into purpose: your inner compass
- An introduction to general anaesthesia
- Anaesthetic monitoring - Lines and numbers !
- Becoming a unicorn team
- General anaesthesia and physiology: the effects of anaesthesia on vital organ function and homeostasis
- Health and safety in pregnancy and lactation
- Problem wounds and case studies
- An introduction to diagnostic cytology : General principles
- Animal behaviour problems ? the role of the veterinary nurse
- Do I deserve to be here? Taming your inner impostor
- Equine emergencies and first aid ? part 1
- Nursing cats with hyperthyroidism
- Post-operative monitoring
- Perioperative pain management in dogs and cats : Tips and techniques
- Canine diabetes mellitus
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Inhalational anaesthetic agents and human safety minimising exposure to trace amounts of anaesthetic gases
- Monitoring the equine patient
- The critical need for nutritional support
- Flea control: products and their usage
- Nursing aspects of small animal poisoning cases
- Understanding the generational gap
- Recent advances in cancer therapy
- Early age neutering
- Equine emergencies and first aid ? part 2
- Intravenous catheter placement
- Selected topics in ear, nose and throat medicine
- Feline immuno-deficiency virus
- Introduction to role of surgical assistant
- Preventing burnout
- Small animal blood transfusions
- Principles of crystalloid fluid therapy
- Anaesthetic machine maintenance
- Cleaning, disinfection, sterilisation
- Nutritional management of feline diabetes mellitus
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in small animals
- Feline lower urinary tract disease
- Medical management of canine osteoarthritis : Current thoughts
- Fluid therapy plans: case-based examples
- Coaching your team to win - how a small tweak in your communication can have a huge impact
- Equine colic ? part 1: causes, presentation, history taking and initial clinical examination
- Feline hyperthyroidism: the veterinary nurses perspective
- Oestrus control in bitches and queens
- Pharmacology ? do's and don'ts
- The role of zoo veterinary nursing in the conservation of kakapo at Auckland zoological park
- Cancer therapy: the veterinary nurses perspective
- Standard procedures for dealing with acute poisonings
- Theatre practice
- Fluid therapy
- How to make the veterinary profession a sustainable career
- Monitoring and nursing care of the critically ill patient
- Equine colic ? part 2: medical and surgical management, treatment and monitoring
- The veterinary nurses role in the prevention and correction of feline behaviour problems
- An introduction to veterinary radiology
- Cat and dog foods: dietary advice to owners
- Chemotherapy and nurses : What part does the nurse play in cancer treatment ?
- New (and old) regulations
- Monitoring the anaesthetised patient ? basic monitoring techniques
- Care of injured native birds
- Toxicology and poisoning
- Electrocardiography ? a stepwise approach
- Intubation in animal patients ? ?animal intubations, great and small÷
- Our expectations for client service
- Puppy preschool - the follow up
- Management of the fracture patient, repair methods, equipment used plus maintenance
- Care and common conditions of companion birds
- Fluid therapy in small animal practice
- The pet health counsellor programme
- Ophthalmic surgery
- What's new concerning canine and feline infectious diseases?
- Grief counselling
- Breed related ocular problems
- Nursing care of K2, a North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx australis mantelli) - first steps forward at 8 years old
- Nutrition in severe illness
- Radiographic positioning and restraint
- Principles and practice of manipulation of the oestrous cycle in large animals
- Collection of blood and urine samples from the dog, cat and bird
- Monitoring the anaesthetised patient ? advanced monitoring techniques
- People responding to wildlife affected by marine oil spills
- Nutrition for geriatrics
- Intensive care monitoring of the acute renal failure patient
- Current thoughts on companion animal revaccination practices
- Oncology for veterinary nurses
- Intensive nursing care of a severe parvovirus enteritis patient
- Advances in veterinary nursing and veterinary nursing training
- Disasters ? dilemma, crisis or opportunity?
- The ins and outs of the ups and downs : The science behind downer cows
- Ethics in veterinary practice
- Practicalities of puppy school
- Pain in companion animals
- Equine limb fractures ? initial first aid management, radiography and on-going care
- Deer velveting : Introduction and restraint methods
- A communicating practice is a good practice
- Deer velveting : Removal procedure and considerations
- Pain recognition and assessment in companion animals
- Rural animal technician in practice
- Cow's hooves and the veterinary technician
- Dermatology for veterinary nurses
- Critical care ? in surgical patients
- Leptospirosis vaccination programme
- Critical care surgical nursing
- Future and present of large animal veterinary technicians
- Recognising and managing common anaesthetic complications
- Instrument care/maintenance and sterilisation
- The recovery period ? care for cats and dogs recovering from general anaesthesia
- Nursing care of the spinal patient
- Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Hip dysplasia and methods of surgical repair
- Avian anaesthesia - an introduction