Courses for Veterinary Nurses

Please have a look through Colourful CPD’s courses and qualifications relevant to Veterinary Nurses​.

These courses are aligned with the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme in terms of helping practices to meet the standards.

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Certificate in Veterinary Nurse Consulting: CertNCS(RVN Cons)

The CertNCS (RVN Cons) is a non-clinical skills certificate in consulting for veterinary nurses.

This in-depth course, delivered through a combination of webinars, course work, assessments and workshops, provides 100 hours of learning and is expected to take about a year to complete.  It will provide veterinary nurses with the full range of key skills to enable them to run and deliver consultations confidently and effectively, for the benefit of the animals, their owners and the practice. 

On successful completion of this course, veterinary nurses will be entitled to use the post-nominals, CertNCS (RVN Cons).

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £699.00 + VAT

This course represents 100 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Bereavement & End of Life Support (Companion Animal)

This Bereavement and End of Life Support course relates to the care that teams in veterinary practices frequently provide for their clients at the end of their animals’ lives.
This course is appropriate for anyone who supports or deals with clients during this difficult time. The content, whilst written to accommodate non-clinical staff, is suitable for all members of the veterinary team.

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £100.00 + VAT

This course represents 5 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Bereavement & End of Life Support (Equine)

This Bereavement and End of Life Support course relates to the care that teams in veterinary practices frequently provide for their clients at the end of their animals’ lives.
This course is appropriate for anyone who supports or deals with clients during this difficult time. The content, whilst written to accommodate non-clinical staff, is suitable for all members of the veterinary team.

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £100.00 + VAT

This course represents 5 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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The Perfect Puppy Experience Course

The Perfect Puppy Experience course is aimed at all front of house staff and veterinary nurses who deal directly with puppy owners, either in person or over the telephone, on a daily basis. It covers the entire puppy client journey from start to finish and equips each member of staff to play their role in delivering the perfect puppy experience.

Author / Speaker: Louise Jackson

Price: £100.00 + VAT

This course represents 2 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Colourful Consulting for Veterinary Nurses: A short introduction

This 5-webinar series is aimed at veterinary nurses who are keen to begin to include consulting within their clinical role.  It is equally relevant for those veterinary nurses already doing some consulting who would like to expand this or improve their confidence.  The course is a short introduction to consulting; it offers suggestions for consulting opportunities that may be available in veterinary practices and provides the key skills necessary for veterinary nurses to deliver an effective consulting service.

The course provides 3 hours of CPD and is accredited by Vetpol.

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £49.00 + VAT

This course represents 3 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Colourful Consulting for Veterinary Nurses: 24 Webinar

This online course includes much of the online teaching from the full CertNCS (RVN Cons).  It will provide Veterinary nurses with in depth knowledge and skills necessary to run successful nurse consulting sessions, without formal assessment or course work.  Nurses studying this course will not achieve the accredited certificate by completing it though they can choose to 'upgrade' to the full certificate should they wish. 

The course equates to 15 hours CPD

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £249.00 + VAT

This course represents 15 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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The Psychology of Confidence for Veterinary Nurses

The webinars in this course are relevant to any veterinary nurses who would like to develop their confidence and learn to manage the typical day to day stresses that we experience in everyday veterinary practice more effectively. 

The same principles apply to all roles in life and are equally as useful for helping develop your colleagues and even your kids’ confidence as they are in developing your own.

The sessions will cover the psychology of the various types of confidence, as well as looking at things that undermine our confidence in the first place, as it is essential that we understand and tackle those if we hope to build genuine confidence, instead of papering over the cracks.  The ways that we can be affected by stress will also be covered and we’ll explore the subject of resilience, clarifying what it is and how we can develop it. 

All of this will help delegates to feel better able to cope with, and recover from, the challenges and set-backs that are a normal part of life both within and outside veterinary practice.

Author / Speaker: Steph Writer-Davies

Price: £49.00 + VAT

This course represents 3.5 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Understanding the Veterinary Profession Better

This short course will help you understand the veterinary profession better and covers the following:

  • The difference between the veterinary profession and the veterinary industry. 
  • The various types of veterinary practice.
  • Regulation of the veterinary profession.
  • Veterinary professionals.
  • Acts of Veterinary Surgery as defined in law.
  • The relevance of the RCVS's Practice Standards Scheme.

 

Author / Speaker: Brian Faulkner

Price: FREE

This course represents 1 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

Promoting your Preventative Healthcare Plan (Nurses)

Preventative healthcare plans are a common, if not an essential tool required in order to achieve widespread client compliance with preventative healthcare on an ongoing basis.  

Whilst most practices have some form of Preventative healthcare plan nowadays, many struggle to achieve significant rates of penetration amongst their patient base. 

This tutorial is one of a series that helps veterinary nurses understand some of the common reasons why veterinary practices do not achieve as many signups as they would like.

Author / Speaker: Brian Faulkner

Price: £20.00 + VAT

This course represents 1 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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Stock Management & Stock Control

This webinar covers stock control and the practicalities of how to conduct a stock take accurately and efficiently.

Author / Speaker: Brian Faulkner

Price: £10.00 + VAT

This course represents 1 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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5 things relating to mental health that everyone in veterinary practice should know

This free webinar is kindly sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and originally took place live online in May 2021, in support of Mental Health Awareness Week. 

Whilst veterinary practice is often a thrilling and enjoyable environment to work in, it is also an emotionally unsettling environment. This is because delivering veterinary service and care incorporates many of the themes that lead to unsettled emotional weather, a state otherwise known as dysphoria. Like unsettled weather patterns, feelings of dysphoria are inevitable – and indeed beneficial – at least to some degree. Similarly, they can pass quickly or hang around for longer than is comfortable and even become as established as an adverse climate of compromised mental health.

Author / Speaker: Brian Faulkner

Price: FREE

This course represents 1 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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5 things that every role in veterinary practice needs to know

This free webinar originally took place live online in January 2021 and is hosted in conjunction with TrustVet.

Every veterinary practice needs to achieve 4 outcomes:

  • Good clinical outcomes
  • Good client satisfaction outcomes
  • Good financial outcomes
  • Good team outcomes

Each of the roles in veterinary practice need to contribute to these outcomes in different ways.

This session will look at 5 things that every role in veterinary practice needs to know and do in order for this to happen.

Author / Speaker: Brian Faulkner

Price: FREE

This course represents 1 hours of CPD. A certificate is available to download upon completion.

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