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2024 Online Veterinary Nurse & Technician Conference

Attended by thousands of Veterinary Nurses & Technicians from across the globe!

RACE-Approved for 6 CPD Hrs

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The Biggest Event of the Year

Key Highlights

6 Outstanding Speakers

This event showcases some of the world’s top veterinary specialists who will be delivering amazing lectures in real-time.

Have More Fun

Not only do you get outstanding clinical lectures, but this year we’ve got even more in store for you, with some fun and interactive activities – just for you!

Free to Access

Yes, that’s correct! This exciting event is absolutely free-to-attend for veterinary nurses and technicians worldwide.

RACE-approved CPD

Get much needed Continuing Education (CE) credits before the year ends. Attend the #VNCON24 and get 6 CE credits!

Event Schedule

6 Lectures Over 3 Days

Free to Attend!

The 2024 program is will also feature some exciting surprises and fun activities in between the lectures! All sessions will be recorded. If you are unable to attend the live lectures, a link to the recordings will be shared with you a few days following the event.

OCT 8

Lecture Description:
Come join Sam as she discusses the essential techniques and considerations for safely performing anaesthesia on reptiles. Discover the unique physiological traits that impact anaesthetic protocols, ensuring safe and effective procedures. Gain insights into pre-anaesthetic assessments, monitoring, and post-operative care tailored specifically for reptilian patients. Enhance your nursing skills with practical tips from an experienced exotic nurse.

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Lecture Description: Veterinary nurses and technicians provide an essential clinical role in the triage and management of a vast range of wounds in traumatic and emergent patients. This lecture invites you to explore the key stages required for the assessment and treatment of wounds, alongside the care planning required for the wound patient.

We will discuss a wide range of wound dressings and their correct application for a variety of wounds, ranging from sterile surgical incisions to infected and chronic non-healing wounds.

You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge to patient case studies within this lecture, and gain confidence as a clinical practitioner in wound care.

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OCT 9

Lecture Description: This presentation will cover the importance of nutrition as the 5th vital assessment. It will introduce the 4 paws method for how we open the door for nutrition conversations and effective client communication.

P – It all starts by identifying the Purpose of the visit to understand the client’s goals

A – Once we understand the goals, we need to Allow client input into what they perceive to be the biggest areas of concern for their pet and what they are willing to consider trying for their pet.

W – Once we’ve allowed the client to provide input on what their pet needs along with their goals, we need to respond with Warmth and empathy to help ensure they recognise we understand their concerns and are ready to work with them on addressing the goals and concerns they’ve provided.

S- Last but not least, once we’ve opened the door with warmth and empathy, we can provide our Solutions that will address their primary goals and concerns while also addressing anything else we’ve identified at the visit.

It will cover what are open ended questions, how to obtain a dietary history, effective communication styles and the non verbal communication that we can use. It will also delve into the perception of value, how to handle objections and how to work as a whole team in the veterinary clinic to reinforce your recommendations and get the best patient outcomes.

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About Michelle Mansford

Michelle Mansford is a Brisbane based artist who started Shore Studio. her vision is to bring high quality art tuition and creative experience opportunities to her students.

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Lecture Description: In this session, Dr. Dani will provide an overview of commonly performed in house diagnostic procedures and outline a comprehensive step-by-step approach for differentiating cutaneous adverse food allergies from atopic dermatitis as well as debunking some of those pesky dermatological myths! Attendees will gain knowledge into long-term management strategies of pruritic skin diseases ensuring better quality of life for affected pets and their owners. Moreover, Dr. Dani will emphasise the importance of multimodal management for dogs with atopic dermatitis, highlighting why a comprehensive, multifaceted approach is essential for effective treatment.

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OCT 10

Lecture Description: This lecture will cover feline obesity and the challenges vets, vet nurses and owners are faced with when managing weight loss. It will cover the role of nutrition in weight management, as well as Hill’s solutions to different obesity related conditions, such as diabetes mellitus and FLUTD.

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Back by ever popular demand, Charisma is back with another offering of the most delicious Indian recipes that are not just easy but super delicious!

The menu and ingredients will be emailed a few days prior to the session. You can cook along or watch and make this after the livestream!

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Lecture Description: Emergency patients can be challenging! This is particularly the case when we encounter a patient that either does not stablise in response to emergency treatments – or in patients that initially respond – but then look worse than they did when they first presented – even when we have done everything to try to support them. In this exciting lecture, we’ll take you on a roller-coaster ride with several patients who remained unstable, despite initial therapy – and what we did to solve their problems! If you’ve ever felt you wanted to do more for your emergency patient – this is a lecture you won’t want to miss!

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Missed the live event? No worries!

You can now access all recorded lectures, lecture notes, and download your CE certificates easily!

Join thousands of Veterinary Nurses & Technicians from across the globe!

No charge to attend—register for the conference today!

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Here's what past participants said about the event!

As usual Philip and Charisma, you have run a stellar conference, with amazing speakers, acutely relevant topics and your own fabulous insights – thank you so much!

Gillian

wow, what a fabulous lineup of great topics and top quality lecturers.

Jane

Thank you so very much 🙂
We have loved every minute of the conference! Best CE of the year!

Bec

Thank you so much for putting on this fabulous webinar series for us. Lovely!

Sue

Very good lectures with excellent presenters. Presentations where great and allowing for interactive questions during presentation.

Michele

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Participating Organisations

We’re excited to welcome veterinary nurses and technicians from organisations across the globe to The Online Vet Nurse Conference 2024. Our shared passion for continuous learning and professional development is truly inspiring to everyone in our profession!

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Samantha Clutterback

Samantha Clutterback

Dip. VN (Zoological and Exotic Species)

Sam has been a veterinary nurse for 16 years now, with experience in general practice, ICU and emergency centres, Head nurse of an exotics only clinics, as well as working in various zoos and wildlife centres around Australia. She is FearFree certified and has a dip. VN (Zoological and exotic species). When she isn’t busy working or running EVNT, she spends time with her young son, scuba diving or reading.

Flick Caldwell

DipAVN(Surg & Anaes). BSc(Hons) CVN DipHECVN RVN

Flick qualified as a RVN in 2006 in a small animal practice in the Highlands of Scotland. She moved to Yorkshire to pursue a career in referral nursing and gained the RCVS Diploma in Advanced nursing, specialising in anaesthesia, surgery and OR practice. Flick has extensive experience working as a specialist referral nurse predominantly in ICU care, surgery, and anaesthesia, and has undertaken specialist training programmes and mentored VN and Veterinary students.

Flick moved into teaching in 2020 as a VN educator and quickly progressed on to becoming a university lecturer in Animal Health and Science. Flick’s passion for teaching clinical diseases and pathophysiology has led to a specialist interest in clinical anatomy and pathology. She plans to gain a master’s degree in clinical anatomy to advance her clinical knowledge in the treatment and management of medical and surgical conditions. Flick’s experience in anatomy labs has led to a passion of teaching anatomy & pathophysiology through guided dissections and interactive CPD sessions.

Flick is a keen academic writer and enjoys research that leads to making proactive changes to provide evidence-based, best-practice nursing care to veterinary patients. She is currently studying for the ISVPS advanced nurse certificate in surgery and will also be starting university in September to study for an MSc in advanced veterinary nursing (incorporating surgery and pain management techniques).

Flick comes as a ‘duo’ with her Medical Detection Dog partnership with super-Labrador, Bowie. He alerts Flick to impending hypotensive episodes that can lead to dangerous syncope-related crises. Flick is a huge advocate for mental health and frequently speaks about mental health disorders and living with disability, imposter syndrome, and complex PTSD.

Bryony Senic
Dr Bryony Senic​
BSc, BVMS

Bryony graduated in 2007 from Murdoch University in Perth. She worked as a veterinarian in small animal practice treating primarily dogs and cats for almost 7 years before moving to an industry role with Hill’s Pet Nutrition in 2015. She works as a Professional Development Veterinarian for South Australia and Western Australia and is passionate about nutrition in pets.

Dr Dani Hoolahan

BSc BVMS DACVD Board Certified Veterinary Dermatologist

Dr Dani graduated from Murdoch University in 2007 with honours. She worked in busy, small animal general practices both in Sydney, Australia and Portland, Oregon before completing a dermatology internship in Perth, Western Australia and then moving to the University of California,
Davis to join the dermatology service at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital as a resident.

She completed her residency in 2013 and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology in the same year. She has worked in busy dermatology referral practice since 2014 and is the founder of the Veterinary Dermatology Clinic.
Hannah Cleary

Hannah Cleary

BVSc, BProp

Upon graduation from Massey University with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 2019, Hannah completed a rotating internship at Veterinary Specialists Aotearoa. Hannah then spent the following years working in small animal emergency and general practice, and recently joined Hill’s in January as the Professional Consulting Veterinarian for New Zealand. She also holds a Bachelor of Property and is a dog mum to two mischievous Golden Retrievers, Holly and Heidi.

Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.
Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU. Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.

Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.

Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.