31/05/2026
May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month within our profession and we want to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful team of Veterinary nurses here at Crab Lane Vets for all their hard work and dedication, every month, all year round.
We have 6 qualified Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVNs) here at Crab Lane: Lise, Anna, Rachel, Rose, Leah and Charlotte and they are supported by student Veterinary Nurse Sheena and student Animal Care Assistant Amanda. They are all hugely important members of our team.
π€ DID YOU KNOW? To become a Registered Veterinary Nurse involves years of challenging training and, upon qualification, each RVN has to undertake a minimum of 15hours of additional training annually to maintain their registered status.
The British Veterinary Nursing Association run a different theme every May to increase the publics awareness of the roles of Veterinary Nurses within our profession . The themes this year are and as we write this, we reflect on the dedication and passion required to both train and practise as a veterinary nurse and the compassion towards patients and people we see from our nurses every day.
Many of our nurses roles will be known to clients and the public:
π±πππ¦They provide direct patient care and nursing support
π·π©Ί Surgical and anaesthetic support via preparing theatre, sterilising equipment, anaesthetic monitoring and recovery support.
π¬π©ΈOur nursing team are involved in diagnostic and laboratory work, assisting with x-rays and ultrasound scans; taking, analysing and recording blood samples, as well as using a whole host of other in-house laboratory equipment.
πThey have an important role in client communication and education as they explain medication instructions, pre-operation consent and post-operative care instructions as well as running their own nursing clinics.
πβοΈSome of our nurses are heavily involved in practice operations and compliance as they are responsible for Heath and Safety, First Aid, and do the majority of the paperwork involved in us maintaining accreditation to the RCVS Practice Standard Scheme.
BUT...our nursing team also have a whole host of other super-skills- you will learn more about these in our Monday Meet the team posts!
π π¦ΈββοΈπ§These range from being able to fix any piece of equipment (usually that the vets have broken...), being human inventories for every item we own (what it is called and where the hell it is when you need it in a hurry...!) they have super-sleuthing skills when a stray animal is handed in with an unregistered microchip, and between them their ability to recall clients or pets names from a one snippet fact is second to none- you cannot learn that at college!πͺ
Thank you to all of our Veterinary Nurses, present and past, over the 5 decade history of our practice. You have truly kept the cogs turning here at Crab Lane Vets.πππ
