Students
VETERINARY NURSING (LEVEL 2)
Resources
- New multi-million pound animal management, veterinary nursing and dog grooming facility (opening Spring 2009)
- Specialist rooms for aquatics, reptiles, invertebrates and small mammals
- Extensive paddock facilities housing a range of grazing animals
- 6 bay, custom built aviaries for exotic birds
- Commercial dog grooming parlour
- Fully equipped veterinary examination room
Typical Employers
Animal rescue centres, animal charities, zoos and wildlife parks, as well as educational institutions and retail outlets.
Industry Links
Students benefit from a wide range of contacts such as local zoos, wildlife parks and rare breeds centres together with veterinary practices, pet shops, kennels, groomers and rescue operations such as Battersea Dogs Home.
You will undertake practical sessions to help develop your handling and husbandry skills, as well as gain an understanding of animal anatomy and physiology. Complementing all of this will be the theories surrounding general nursing. Training will take place in our Veterinary Training Suite with sittings for the RCVS examinations taking place twice a year. Students are also required to complete a portfolio at their training practice.
Entry Requirements Students must be 16 years old or over and: Students must be employed within an approved veterinary training practice for a minimum of 35hrs a week; enrolled with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as a student nurse; 17 years old or above and have achieved at least 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above including English, Science and Mathematics. Alternative qualifications will be accepted at the discretion of the RCVS.
Location
Hadlow
Start Date Daytime: Thursday 17th September 2009
Course Duration
Minimum of 2 years, 1 day a week.
Tuition Fee Please phone 0500 551434 for further information