Midweek Musings: Facebook Live with VN Futures

Jill has been in the veterinary profession for over 20 years – she worked in primary care practice and as a head nurse for 12 years; at the University of Liverpool Vet School supporting teaching education of post and undergraduate vets, and currently holds a role with the RCVS in leading the VN Futures Project. She has a passion for the progression of the VN role, and many of her activities over the past few years have worked towards this aim, including the development of the first VN specific communication guide.

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Lou qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 2009 and has worked in various first opinion practices and a referral hospital. Her main interests are anaesthesia, analgesia, emergency and critical care nursing, and quality improvement (QI).In 2019, Lou was awarded the RCVS Inspiration Award for her ongoing ability to inspire and enthuse others and was also named an RCVS Knowledge Champion in 2019 and 2020 for her clinical audit work in practice. Lou is clinical nurse lead at Wendover Heights Veterinary Centre and Quality Improvement lead RVN at RCVS Knowledge. In practice, she is responsible for reviewing clinical standards, implementing QI practices, and training the team in her areas of interest. Through her social media channel, “Lou The Vet Nurse”, which has more than 17,000 followers, she shares CPD, hints and tips with fellow nurses, and blogs about her life as an RVN.

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Amelia is a Registered Veterinary Nurse who has worked at a variety of privately owned hospitals, as well as rescue centres, concentrating on intensive inpatient care. She has always been passionate about EBVM and Quality Improvement (QI) within practice to offer patients the best possible care and uses her veterinary experience to ensure that content is relevant to those in practice. Amelia is the Quality Improvement Project Manager at RCVS Knowledge, her role includes managing national audits and registries, such as the National Audit for Small Animal Neutering and the Canine Cruciate Registry. This includes working to create resources and content that will support practices in embedding QI in practice, and use their audit data to help improve patient care on a practice, local and national scale. 

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