Internal Medicine Courses

Respiratory patients are commonly seen in practice, often presenting as high-risk complex cases with intensive care requirements. They can be incredibly challenging to nurse, but extremely rewarding, and allow the veterinary nurse to demonstrate a wide variety of skills.  This learning series...

This course explores the most common presentations that we encounter in Practice: vomiting and diarrhoea. Gastrointestinal disease is a major cause of patient admittance to the hospital, with a proportion of patients requiring advanced and intensive nursing care. A veterinary nurse’s...

A five-part learning series with Nicola Lakeman. Veterinary nurses are perfectly placed to manage the nutritional requirements of inpatients, as well as give valuable advice to increasingly-confused clients about what they should actually be feeding their pets. Beginning by looking at how to...

An eleven-part learning series for nurses with Nicola Lakeman. Covering all aspects of medical nursing, this series aims to provide you with the confidence to go back into practice fully-equipped to deal with even the most challenging of cases. We begin by looking at care bundles, nursing...

A learning series of four videos filmed at a Livestream event with veterinary nurse Nicola Lakeman. Cats and dogs with diabetes are commonly seen in practice. These cases may present as an acute emergency requiring intensive nursing care and treatment, or be diagnosed from consultations such...

A five-part learning series for nurses with Linda Ryan RVN. Cancer is a common cause of death and illness in older pets. Up to one-in-four cats and dogs over eight years old will die from it, and many more pets live with chronic cancer conditions. Therefore veterinary nurses in all types of...

Strategies to limit parasitic disease rely on a combination of practical control measures and preventative treatments. A risk based approach to the use of preventative products is vital to safeguard animal and human health, while ensuring over treatment does not take place and it allows bespoke...

RVNs deal with different types of laboratory samples every day in practice, and it is essential that they are trained in sample collection, handling and quality analysis to prevent degradation of the sample and laboratory error which can lead to inaccurate or delayed diagnosis and...

Nutrition can be easily overlooked when formulating treatment plans for our patients, with the focus often being on pharmacological intervention and other supportive care measures, but it can and should play a fundamental role in the management of most medical conditions, whether it is to support...

Nutrition is the cornerstone of all excellent veterinary care. This learning series with Georgia Woods-Lee will look at each life stage to ensure an optional recommendation is always given. From growth, throughout adulthood and into their senior years, nutrition plays a key role in maintaining...