Advanced Veterinary Nursing (Perioperative Nursing and Patient Safety)

Entry requirements

All applicants will be interviewed to reassure both parties that this course is the most appropriate choice and to discuss the most appropriate learning pathway for each individual student. Individual programme planning will be discussed with each applicant at interview to suggest the most appropriate schedule.

Academic

A typical offer for the Postgraduate Certificate is a Level 3 Diploma, FdSc or BSc (Hons) in Veterinary Nursing

Applicants must be a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Registered Veterinary Nurse or, if an international applicant, must hold equivalent qualifications

Months of entry

September

Course content

Develop your specialism as an advanced nursing practitioner in your chosen field while enhancing your skills and knowledge. Our Postgraduate Certificate in Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Nursing (Perioperative Nursing and Patient Safety) focuses on areas of clinical interest and mapping out individual pathways for career progression.

The course has been designed for veterinary nurses with a special interest in advanced surgical nursing. In addition to advancing your surgical nursing knowledge and skills, the course will encourage you to suggest creative solutions to applied problems in surgical nursing practice, even in cases of incomplete evidence or uncertainty, while acknowledging professional responsibility.

You'll be supported to set aspirational individual and team goals, and to supervise others to achieve these. This course will develop your approach to providing, monitoring and evaluating safe and effective advanced nursing care during the perioperative period. As patient safety is a key focus during this time, you'll be supported to develop skills in identifying factors that contribute to the safety of the surgical patient, including client liaison, and in planning and conducting clinical audits in practice.

Modules

• Advanced Veterinary Nurse Practitioner
• Applied Research in Veterinary Practice
• Perioperative Surgical Nursing Care
• Clinical Audit and Patient Safety in Veterinary Practice

Information for international students

We welcome applications from international students and accept international qualifications at equivalent levels to the above

You may also need to evidence proficiency in English language

Fees and funding

Please visit our student finance page for information on tuition fees and student loans, as well as non-repayable grants, bursaries and scholarships, eligible to different groups, to support with study costs