
Handbook of Veterinary Nursing
2nd edition
By: Hilary Orpet, Perdi Welsh
Paperback | 1 October 2010 | Edition Number 2
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Handbook of Veterinary Nursing presents essential guidance and helpful tips on developing and delivering high quality nursing care and skills.
Fully updated, this easy-to-follow guide reflects recent changes to veterinary nursing qualifications, current terminology and drugs in use. The emphasis is on the importance of working methodically, using high quality procedures, to help the whole veterinary team ensure the most successful outcomes in animal care.
Written in note form for quick reference by veterinary nurses and technicians at all stages of their training and career, this will be invaluable for both exam revision and quick reference in clinic.
Contents include:
The nursing process in veterinary care, physical assessment of the patient, managing the hospital environment, managing the operating room, surgical nursing activities, anaesthesia, diagnostic imaging, diagnostic tests, triage and emergency procedures, and essential calculations for drugs, fluids, nutrition and radiographic exposures.
Key features:
•Gives clinical advice quickly and simply
•Written by authors with many years experience of veterinary nurse training and education
•Contains essential calculations
•Illustrated in colour throughout
Industry Reviews
"Veterinary nurses of all levels of experience will find this
handbook invaluable in practice. This edition reflects the advances
our profession has made in recent years and will equip the reader
with the information they need to deliver nursing care of the
highest standard."
?Liz Branscombe, DipAVN(Surg) RVN
"This second edition is very timely in providing updated and
additional material in the developing field of veterinary nursing.
The Contemporary Veterinary Nursing section includes a detailed
description of the Nursing Process and a Model of Nursing Care
specific to veterinary nurses which can be used to inform the
practice of nursing described in the subsequent sections."
?Andrea Jeffery, MSc DipAVN(Surg) Cert Ed RVN
ISBN: 9781405145534
ISBN-10: 1405145536
Published: 1st October 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: Revised
Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 17.2 x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.79
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