AVSPNI Spring Conference
Date: Friday 21st to Saturday 22nd April 2023
Details
The AVSPNI Spring Conference focusses on companion animals and is a long-standing and popular fixture in the Northern Ireland CPD calendar. With a large trade exhibition and a highly social Party Night, it provides an excellent opportunity for networking and meeting up with old friends or making new ones. The key attraction is always the quality of the CPD and with two lecture streams for vets and one for nurses, all delegates can build on their existing skills and return to their practices armed with new knowledge and increased clinical confidence.
Our Quality Improvement Clinical Lead RVN, Lou Northway will show delegates how to build simple, practical routes to better outcomes for patients and the veterinary team into your working day.
Lou Northway VNCertECC NCert(Anaesth) RVN
Lou qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2009 and has worked in both primary care practices and a referral hospital. Since qualifying, she has gained additional certificates in emergency & critical care nursing and anaesthesia & analgesia. Over the years Lou has developed a love for anaesthesia, analgesia & quality improvement which are now her key areas of focus.
After having her baby boy back in September 2020 Lou is back working in a very busy primary care practice in Buckinghamshire as clinical lead RVN where she oversees clinical governance, quality improvement, team training and clinical nursing standards. In both 2019 & 2020 Lou was named an RCVS Knowledge Champion for the clinical audit & QI work she undertakes in practice. In 2019 Lou was also awarded the RCVS Inspiration award for her ability to inspire and enthuse others.
In 2021 the opportunity arose to join RCVS Knowledge as Quality Improvement Lead RVN helping to promote QI in the profession, she now undertakes this alongside her clinical practice role.
Lou is very passionate about teamwork and delivering brilliant patient care. Her aim is to help VNs to nurture their niche and value themselves. Lou loves being out and about speaking to the vet nursing community and sharing her pearls of wisdom & experiences, as well as chatting with VNs online via her social media platform ‘Lou The Vet Nurse’.
When
21-22 April 2023
Where
Europa Hotel
Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7AP