RCVS VN Futures project lead Jill Macdonald RVN, discusses the new RCVS Academy course, designed to provide newly registered VNs with consistent, meaningful and personalised support during the transition from student to RVN.

Alex John explains how VN clinics can be of help in all areas of pets’ health and well-being – and in the vet practice, too.

Alison Mann explains how knowledge summaries have been a “go-to” to find up-to-date evidence, along with how they can aid in growing a healthy evidence base – benefiting nurses as well as patients and their owners.

Sarah Whittaker takes a look at the options available to benefit canine and feline patients, and how the RVN is ideally placed to champion this.

Ahead of her lecture in the preventive health care stream at BSAVA Congress, Georgia Woods-Lee describes the profession’s role in ensuring companion animals are fed correctly while growing, as adults and at the senior stage, and how making appropriate suggestions at the right times is vital for maintaining owner engagement…

Third-year student veterinary nurse Macauly Gatenby shares with readers a note he has written from the perspective of his “future RVN self”.

Emma Gerrard discusses considerations vet nurses should be aware of when caring for pets during this period, including medicines, equipment, pain management, infection control and hygiene isolation protocols, as well as owner advice.

As the cost of living crisis bites for many pet owners, this month, Matt provides some tips and hints to pass on to them about keeping reptiles in an energy-efficient way.

Interacting with cats in a feline-friendly manner encompasses both physical and non-physical contact, including visual, olfactory and auditory information. International Cat Care’s Laura Watson tells us more…

Helen Ballantyne gives an overview of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses conference, which brought human nurses and VNs together to strengthen the one health ideal.