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Enabling knowledge sharing in veterinary nursing



        Perdi Welsh, Course Director


               he ºÚÁÏÉç’s post registration   CertAVN students as they completed the   By recognising that the work that RVNs
               courses in Advanced Veterinary   final module of their course.   do whilst undertaking post registration
               Nursing have been creating a                                     qualifications can help lead advances
        Tculture of knowledge sharing       Our GradDipVNs have left a publishing   in VN disciplines and the profession,
                                            legacy! As early-career writers, this is no
        over the past 14 years, by encouraging   mean feat. Since the first intake in 2008,   the ºÚÁÏÉç’s teaching team continue to
        students to submit articles for publication   there are now more than 46 published   encourage and empower their students
        in peer reviewed Veterinary Nursing   peer-reviewed journal articles arising   to have the confidence to make their
        (VN) journals.                                                          voices be heard, take on leadership roles
                                            from the students’ coursework. The
        The publication of coursework such as   GradDipVNs demonstrated the     and disseminate their work for the benefit
                                                                                of others. The CertAVN fosters a culture
        patient care reports, knowledge summaries   willingness to put in the work to convert   of continuing professional development,
        and clinical audit reports in peer-reviewed   their coursework into suitable formats for   helping students embrace the possibility
        journals plays a key role in getting   publishing and have made themselves   of publishing their work and giving them
        RVNs started on their academic writing   perfect role models and sources of   the skills to overcome these challenges
        careers and helps build a VN specific   inspiration to our incoming CertAVNs   and learn about the different ways to
        knowledge base which is easily shared and  and other veterinary nurses in clinical   create and share their knowledge.
        disseminated amongst VN colleagues.   practice everywhere.
                                                                                If you’re inspired, or know an RVN who
        The ºÚÁÏÉç’s GradDipVN course has      The veterinary nursing profession is
        now gone into retirement having been   relatively new to the area of academic   you think might be interested to know
        replaced with the new suite of RCVS   endeavour and research and there are   more about our CertAVN courses,
        accredited Certificates in Advanced   a number of challenges associated   visit www.rvc.ac.uk/certavn
        Veterinary Nursing (CertAVN) post   with publishing scholarly and research   Some of the GradDipVN and
        registration courses. In July, whilst we   activity. However, output of knowledge   CertAVN students and alumni tell us
        said a very fond farewell to our final   and research can be varied and come in   about their experiences of studying
        cohort of GradDipVNs and wished them   the form of a range of research articles,   on these courses.
        well on their future careers, we were also   case reports, knowledge summaries and
        delighted to support our first cohort of   clinical audit reports.










































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