Social workers are those who assist veterinarians in performing their duties, or carry out animal health procedures independently as part of the animal care system. Job roles are varied worldwide, and general titles include animal nurses , veterinary technicians , veterinary assistants and veterinary technologists , and variants with the prefix 'animal health'.
The scope of the practice varies among countries, with some countries allowing workers eligible workers who fit the sphere of autonomous practice, including small operations, while others limit their workers to assist simple veterinarians.
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Nomenclature
Nurse and veterinary technician
In most of the anglophone countries, workers' workers with a formal scope of practice, and the degree of autonomy in their role, are known as animal nurses. The main exception to this is in North America, where the United States and Canada refer to these workers as technicians or technologists of animal health (or animal health). Most provinces in Canada have an official registration process and veterinarians must legally hire registered veterinary technologists. The registration process involves attending an accredited college and passing the license exam. Registered technicians must also meet the licensing criteria and ongoing annual education requirements.
Human nursing associations often claim rights to the term 'nurse', and in some countries, this is protected by law. This was the case in England until 1984, in which animal nurses were referred to as 'registered animal nurse assistants', in accordance with the naming convention of the time for unqualified assistants in human nursing, called 'servant maids'.
This is still the case in the United States, where the American Nursing Association and some state nursing associations have claimed ownership rights to term 'nurses'. Some animal technicians argue that since they spend about 90% of their time doing nursing assignments, they should be allowed to use an animal nurse degree, like their counterparts in other countries. Some argue that this is very valid because their skills are often greater than their human nursing counterparts, with the addition of skills such as radiology, laboratory work, pharmacy and more. Unofficially, many people (including veterinarians and technicians) refer to these workers as animal nurses in conversation, as this is a brief description of the role.
Veterinary assistant
In most countries, a veterinary assistant is a person with fewer or no animal health qualifications, who have no autonomous practice, but who are designated to assist veterinarians and act under their direct instruction.
Training programs are often workplace-based, and no formal licenses or certifications are required to perform those roles.
Local laws may limit what a veterinary assistant may do, as some procedures can only be resolved legally by registered practitioners, such as veterinarians or animal nurses.
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History
Veterinarians have received help from staff throughout their profession, but the first organized paraveteriner workers were dog nurses trained by the Canine Nurses Institute in 1908, and published in The Veterinary Student magazine. According to the founders, they will "do the veterinarian's instructions, meet the original needs of the dog owners, and at the same time provide paid work for young women who love animals".
In 1913, the Ruislip Dog Sanatorium was founded, and employed nurses to care for unhealthy dogs and by 1920, at least one veterinary operation in Mayfair employed qualified human nurses to care for animals. In the mid-1930s, an early animal nurse approached the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for official recognition, and in 1938 the Royal Veterinary College had a designated nurse's head, but official recognition was not granted until 1957, first as an animal nurse, but changed within a year Royal Animal Nursing Auxiliaries (RANAs) after objections from the human nursing profession.
In 1951, the first formal paraveterinary role was made by the United States Air Force that introduced veterinary technicians, and this was followed in 1961 by a civil program at the State University of New York (SUNY) Faculty of Agriculture and Engineering. In 1965 Walter Collins, DVM received federal funds to develop a model curriculum for training technicians. He produced several guides for the next seven years, and for this work he is considered the "father of veterinary technology" in the United States.
In 1984, the term veterinary nurse was officially restored to the workers of the British workers.
Roles and responsibilities
The scope of practice for workers of workers varies by jurisdiction, and based on the level of qualification. In some places, more than one paraveterinary working class exists. For example, in the UK there are both animal nurses, who are professionally qualified with a protected degree, and veterinary assistants, who do not have a single qualification level to accomplish, and whose offices are not protected. In addition, job roles can be further divided into roles such as Veterinary Surgical Technician, Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Technician, Anesthesiology Specialist Veterinary Specialist, etc.
At higher levels, nurses or veterinary technicians may be able to practice skills independently, including examination and small operations in animals, without direct supervision of veterinarians.
Workers of the workers tend to assist veterinarians, or conduct themselves on behalf of veterinarians, medical skills such as observation (eg taking and recording pulse, temperature, breathing etc.), wound and trauma management (eg cleaning and treating wounds, applying splints etc.) , physical intervention (eg catheterization, ear flushes and venipuncture) and preparing and analyzing biological samples (eg skin scraping, microbiology, urinalysis, and microscopy).
Depending on the scope of their training and training, they can also be called upon to operate diagnostic screening equipment, including electrocardiographic, radiographic and ultrasonographic instruments, including complex machines such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and gamma cameras. In veterinary hospitals, veterinary technicians can perform complete blood counts, differential counts, and blood morphological examinations.
Workers of the workers will generally assist veterinarians in operation by providing correct equipment and instruments and by ensuring that monitoring and support equipment is in good working condition. They can also keep care and inventory records of all medicines, equipment and supplies, and assist with other administrative duties in veterinary practice such as client education.
Client education plays a key role in the responsibility of veterinary technicians to effectively communicate complex, sometimes complex medical instructions in a positive and understandable way, and to facilitate the care of patients as intermediaries between doctors, hospitals and patients. In this way, an open communication path is established that can benefit patients and hospitals.
Education and qualifications
The educational level of paraveterinary workers will depend on the role they play, and the veterinary medico-legal framework for the area in which they work. Many areas employ veterinary assistants, who have a simple role to directly assist veterinarians under direction, and may not have formal qualifications or training, or have been trained in the workplace.
Higher-level workers, such as animal nurses, animal technicians or veterinary technologists, who have a range of autonomous practices that are expected to perform without instruction, tend to have formal qualifications and in many jurisdictions will also require formal registration with the monitoring body.
In countries where the role of parveterinary workers is most advanced, the qualifications required tend to be based on higher education, such as in the United States or Canada where a veterinary technician usually must earn an associate degree at an institution recognized by American Veterinary Medical. Canadian Association or Veterinary Association, and may choose to study for a long time to earn a degree (which in the United States may confer the title of 'technologist' instead of 'technician'), or the United Kingdom, where the veterinary nurse enters the profession through the program a two-year diploma or through completion of a degree or honors degree.
In almost all cases, regardless of the formalized level of training, a high level of practical experience is usually required before a student meets the qualifications, which can be completed as part of their program, or during the post-qualification period. This may require the maintenance of records of all completed work, which may need to be signed by a supervising professional (such as a veterinarian or senior paraveterinary staff member) to demonstrate competence. In some cases, such as in the United States, video recording may be required from some procedures, which may then be checked by the conferring or registration body.
Many countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and some parts of the United States, restrict some elements of practice, and may limit the use of recognized names, to persons currently registered with the appropriate licensing bodies, meaning that it is illegal for everyone who are not registered as workers of the workers, or perform some procedures that a licensed professional may perform. The exact details of these restrictions vary greatly between jurisdictions, and neighboring regions may have different policies, as is the case in various US states.
The licensing body may have its own requirements to retain enrollment, and those holding the required academic qualifications may still have to complete further tests or tests to be enrolled. For example, in the United States, most regions use the National Veterinary Technician Exam, and this will be used by state licensing authorities (such as state veterinary associations) to qualify applicants to become registered veterinary technicians.
In some cases, eligible persons prior to the introduction of formal academic qualification requirements may still work as workers of the workers, and may still be included in the mandatory list through the use of grandfather's rights. For example, in some US states, people with a number of years or hours of experience assisting veterinarians may attend the Veterinary Technician National Exam, but this route has been removed in 2011, and future candidates must have academic qualifications.
Custom certification
Beyond credentialing as a certification of veterinary technician is also available for technicians with advanced skills. Until now there is special recognition in: emergency & amp; critical care, anesthesiology, dentistry, small veterinary medicine, major animal disease drugs, cardiology, oncology, neurology, veterinary medicine, horse care, surgery, behavior, nutrition, clinical practice (dog/cat, exotic animal companion, and animal production) sub-specialty) and clinical pathology. Veterinary Technicians carry additional post-nominal "VTS" with their special specials shown in parentheses. As the veterinary technology develops, more attention is anticipated.
By country
- Social worker in Australia
- Workers working in Belgium
- Workers working in Denmark
- Workers of the workers in France
- Workers of the workers in Ireland
- Workers of the workers in Italy
- Workers of the workers in Japan
- Worker workers in New Zealand
- Social workers workers in Norway
- Worker workers in South Africa
- Worker workers in Sweden
- Workers of the workers in Switzerland
- Workers working in Thailand
- Worker workers in Turkey
- Veterinary Medicine in the United Kingdom
- Veterinary medicine in the United States
Global presence
The efforts resulted in the creation of professional solidarity International Veterinary Nurses and Technicians Association (IVNTA) in 1993. Current members include Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United Union. In 2007 the Veterinary Nurses Education Accreditation Committee (ACOVENE) was established in an effort to standardize veterinary technology education throughout the EU and to enable the movement of animal nurses trained in one member country to work in another. In specialized fields, an organization based in Switzerland Vasta ( VeterinÃÆ'¤r AnÃÆ'¤sthesie fÃÆ'¼r TechnikerInnen Schule und ArzthelferInnen - School of Veterinary Anesthesia for Technicians and Assistants ) is a six-year program of six years approved by the Association of veterinary Anesthetists (AVA), the European College of veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ECVAA), International veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM), and who has filed an application for approval RACE (Registry of approved Continuing Education) in the United States ( "Assistant" in the title VASTA refers to a junior assistant or veterinarian and not an unqualified veterinary assistant). The instructor includes the ECVAA diploma, the anesthesiologist's nurse from the human medical field, the neurologist, and the veterinary physical therapist. Currently offered in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking areas in Switzerland. It had previously been offered in the French-speaking region of Switzerland but is currently hiatus there due to low participation. Courses are planned for the US and UK in 2012. Successful completion of the course results in post-nominal VAT (Veterinary Anesthesia Technician).
See also
- Veterinarian
- Veterinary
- Animal surgeon
- By country
- Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom
- Veterinary medicine in the United States
References
External links
- International Veterinary Nurse and Technician Association
- European College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia
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