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| Annual Congress - Telford UK |
Each day offered 5 streams of lectures geared to meet the needs of training nurses, qualified nurses, managers and teachers. You could choose to sit in on a range of topics - medical nursing, surgical nursing, wildlife care, dentistry, behaviour, professionalism and mentoring.
Highlights for me included attending the following lectures: Code of Conduct for veterinary nurses, Formulating care plans, The human-animal bond and The cat owner: friend or foe?
Recently in the UK veterinary nurses have become a regulated profession with a code of conduct and professional accountability. It's inspiring to see vet nurses becoming a self regulated body and even though nurses can now be personally accountable before the Royal College Board, they are also raising the standards of our profession. This is something that I would love to see happen in Australia, although at the moment we can't move forward as each state has it's own legistration.
Formulating care plans is the way forward to providing quality care for individual patients and is the one thing I want to bring back to work as it's a perfect fit with our vision statement.
The human-animal bond and cat lecture appealed to my interest in behaviour and the dynamics of owning a mult-icat household. Lots of tips from these, so I will have to write up my notes when I get home!
Although we spent the 3 days at the conference a few other things happened!
We visited Ironbridge a small town nearby which has the oldest iron bridges (hence the name!) in the UK. It's a really quaint town and we saw our first white swans for the trip :)
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| Quaint Ironbridge |
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| The bridge! |
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| The Swan family at Ironbridge
We stayed a lovely very English hotel called Buckatree Hall. Lovely rooms and great decor inside - modern regency (great fabrics and colours!)
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| Buckatree Hall |
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| Nice decor |
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