Our courses are exciting, interactive, challenging - and most of all, equip you with sound, practical and relevant knowledge to advance your career. We continue to develop innovative and exciting courses written specifically for veterinary nurses.
in 2012, we bring you brand new courses for veterinary nurses - oncology for veterinary nurses, and endocrine diseases - and completely revise and update (with brand new content!) fluid therapy, venoms and toxins, and critical care! To get started, due to popular demand, we are kicking the year off with "Fluid Therapy in Small Animal Practice - completely revised and updated since we last delivered this course in 2009!
Take a look below and see what's in store in 2012!
fluid therapy in small animal practice
begins february 20th 2012
Fluid therapy is essential in the management of many small animal diseases - surgical, medical and emergency medicine! This course will review the essentials you should know about fluid therapy - including monitoring your patient - so that your fluid therapy is as effective in practice as it can be!
Week 1
Where does my fluid go? Are all fluids created equal? The answers to these questions and more are covered this week - including other exciting things, such as regulation of body water content, blood pressure, and what YOU can measure to determine if your patient has the right fluid, the right fluid rate and more!
Week 2
Shock! What is it? What causes it? Why is it so serious? How to I treat it? Find out in this action-packed week, weith interactive cases, flow charts, monitoring tools and handy practice resources you can use every day!
Week 3
Transfusions! Learn the essentials of transfusion medicine, from blood typing and cross-matching to delivery and monitoring. Know when patients need a transfusion, know how to calculate transfusion blood volumes, collect blood from dogs and cats safely, and what to do when a transfusion reaction occurs!
Week 4
The Ten Rules of Fluid Therapy - 10 things you need to know about fluid therapy what will help your patients - every day - every time! This week is all about the nuts and bolts of fluid therapy. We'll use real cases to illustrate these important rules - so your fluid therapy will never be the same again!
Week 5
Fluid Therapy in Specific Disease States I - learn how to effectively and safely administer fluids to patients with heart disease, kidney disease, urinary tract blockage and more!
Week 6
Fluid Therapy in Specific Disease States II - including transfusion medicine, blood gas analysis, Blood Lactate, Electrolytes, PCV’s and more! Learn about these things, and what they can tell us about our patients – and how we can help them with our fluid therapy plan!
The cost for this 6-week course is AUD 330.00. This fee includes full access to our website for the duration of the course, including message-board access, and all online tutorials, Quiz assessments, marking and advice, and a certificate on successful course completion. Register Now!
free webinars for nurses in 2012!
We have live online lectures in small animal, practice management and equine medicine and surgery coming up in 2012 too. check the Web-Seminars pages for the latest in our expanding nurse education webimar series, brought to you in conjunction with Hill's Pet Nutrition and Merial animal Health Australia! Here's a taste!
February 13th 2012
Web-Seminar for Nurses and Vets! "Top Tips for Improving Your Radiographic Image Quality" with Mike Jeffery - Veterinary Radiographer, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia Mike is passionate about radiographs - and comes to us with a wealth of experience in both human and veterinary radiography, and paramedic work. Mike is well-known for his teaching - offering down-to-earth, practical and "real world" solutions to common radiographic prog=blems. In this lecture Mike will help you get the most from your radiographs - whatever your machine! This is a FREE lecture too - so get the practice involved in the official launch of the 2012 Web-Seminar (webinar) series! Click Here To Register Now!
March 1st 2012
Web-Seminar for Veterinary Nurses: Knowledge for Nurses! Brought to you by Hill's Pet Nutrition and Vet Education, this FREE webinar will provide some great updates in the field of clinical nutrition! This month, the topic is "Feline Obesity and Diabetes - What can we do - and what should we feed?" with Dr Delissa Appleton BVSc PhD - Not to be missed!
even more for veterinary nurses in 2012!
2012 is already looking great, with online courses including critical care, fluid therapy, oncology nursing, venoms and toxins and some exciting new learning formats as well!
Look out! In April, we launch "Venoms and Toxins" a 4-week fully interactive course covering toxins and venoms from all over the globe - with special attention paid to those toxins in New Zealand and Australia that affect dogs and cats! In June, we have Critical Care, followed in the later half of the year by Endocrine diseases and cancer in dogs and cats! What a Year!
