Nurses consulting, whatever next? Improved efficiency and better profits, that's what!

摘要

After years of training, both at college and on the job, veterinary nurses are qualified to undertake many routine procedures unsupervised. Responsibility is what a nurse trains hard to achieve -the feeling of having made a real, positive difference to the lives of pets and their grateful owners is hard to beat. And yet so many nurses appear to be under-valued by their practices, given roles made up entirely of advising rather than doing - covering diets, behaviours, dental care and the like. Of course, each of these is a perfectly valid area in which pet owners require education and guidance, and they are a necessary part of a nurses role. But it should be just that, a part.