Author Archives: Harrie Phillips

When did you last clean your stethoscope?

Stethoscopes, a vital tool in medical practice, are often overlooked as fomites, leading to potential [...]

Placing IV Catheters – Hints, Tips and Avoiding Common Mistakes for Vet Nurses

Intravenous (IV) catheters (the correct term is ‘cannula’) provide a pathway into the vascular system [...]

G-Tube 101: Understanding Feeding Tube Care for Vet Nurses

The Gastrostomy Tube (aka G-Tube), including the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy tube (PEG tube), needs to [...]

Placing a Modified Robert Jones

The Modified Robert Jones Bandage is used most commonly used post-operatively to provide compression in [...]

Patient Warming in Anaesthesia

All veterinary nurses know that warming a patient during anaesthesia is important, but do you [...]

5 Things we’re doing wrong by our clipper blades.

Proper clipper blade care is essential not only to prevent trauma to our patients (clipper [...]

Using a Feeding Tube – Information for Veterinary Nurses

Nutrition is vital in recovering patients, and recovery periods can be dramatically shorter if a [...]

Wrapping a Surgical Kit

Packaging is a very important step in the sterile supply cycle and requires careful attention. [...]

Surgical Skin Preparation – Best Practice Protocol for Veterinary Nurses

Skin preparation techniques are one of our first defences in reducing the risk of our [...]

Jugular Venepuncture – Get the best sample with these tips for VNs

The accuracy of any clinical pathology test is greatly determined by the quality of the [...]