Are you a current student?
Certificate in Client Care ServicesAre you pawsitively passionate about pets?
You’re barking up
the right tree.
We think vet nursing is the ultimutt career too!
Learn more about what a veterinary nurse does on this page.
READ OUR ULTIMUTT GUIDE TO BECOMING A VEtERINARY NURSE
Introduction
We bet you thought veterinary nursing is all about cuddling cute animals and giving them the best care possible.
Actually… it is!
But there’s also a lot more to it than that. The day-to-day work of a vet nurse is always varied and always interesting, and depending on your clinic size, experience, and specialty, it could involve:
- Animal restraint during procedures and examinations
- Preparing patients for and assisting with surgery
- Booking appointments and handling phone queries
- Monitoring patients under anaesthetic
- Obtaining pathology samples and performing diagnostic tests
- Administering medication to patients under direction
- Caring for hospitalised animals
- Recognising and responding to emergencies, including administering first aid
- Obtaining and recording patient vital signs
- Giving advice to clients on a multitude of topics
- Assisting with radiography
- Assisting with pet euthanasia
- Lots and lots of cleaning! (Yeah, we left that until last, but we’re also in the business of telling you the truth!)
As challenging as many of these tasks are, the benefits are many and the emotional reward is huge. It’s why we do what we do! Compensation also includes:
- Employment under the Animal Care and Veterinary Services Award
- Pay scaled to your qualification and experience (so there are immediate benefits to being a qualified nurse through our Nationally Recognised Training courses)
- Potential staff discounts on veterinary care for your very own animals, but this varies from clinic to clinic.
The thought of doing something meaningful with my life that would benefit others is what drew me to the veterinary industry. I like the fact that ACVN allows me to work at my own pace, it means I can balance part time work and travel with my studies. I also love how friendly and helpful the ACVN staff are, they make the stress of studying a little easier.
I’m middle aged with 3 adult kids and a varied work history. I decided when I turned 40 that I really wanted to work with animals. I chose online studying for the convenience of working to my own schedule. From my comparisons with colleagues studying with other RTO’s I think the ACVN course was much more comprehensive. My goal was to end up as a carer in a non-profit/rescue organisation and in March 2017 I accepted a job with the RSPCA client services across adoptions, admissions and clinic.
dip your paw into the world of veterinary nursing
If you want to see how great veterinary nursing can be, and how easy it is to study with us, then enrol in our Introduction to Veterinary Nursing Course.
You’ll graduate from this short course with some great knowledge on how to provide care to hurt and injured animals. You’ll see what’s involved in being a veterinary nurse and studying with ACVN.
You’ll receive internal credit to ACVN accredited courses if you decide that veterinary nursing is your calling.
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