Nurse/Veterinary Technician Advanced Certificates
Our highest qualification for nurses in primary care veterinary practiceWho is this certificate for?
The NAdvCert/VTAdvCert confers recognition that a Nurse and/or Veterinary Technician has completed a period of postgraduate/post qualification study and passed an examination and written assignment in their chosen field. The successful NAdvCert/VTAdvCert holder will be regarded by peers as having had further training in a specific clinical discipline and therefore able to provide high levels of patient care, improve animal welfare, offer nursing advice to colleagues, and become involved with more complicated nursing care within their practice.
- 1. Complete the course
The first step to achieving the NAdvCert/VTAdvCert is to complete the modular training programme with an approved training provider. It is essential that throughout your programme you undertake extended reading around the programme syllabus. - 2. Pass the assessments
- Candidates must submit a written assignment linked to their chosen field of study.
- Candidates must submit a case log comprising multiple cases which they have been involved with, in practice, whilst studying on the programme. Each entry within the case log needs to record only key information associated with the case. There may be specific requirements for these cases and ISVPS will provide the programme specific requirements
- Candidates also sit a 90-minute Online Applied Knowledge Examination (OAKE) to assess application of clinical knowledge.
Full details of the assessment requirements and deadlines for each qualification are made available for candidates once they have started the programme and are registered with ISVPS. Please contact english@isvps.org for further details.
- 3. Celebrate your success!
On successful completion of your assessments, you will be awarded the NAdvCert/VTAdvCert with a personalised certificate and your name will be included in the ISVPS register of Certificate holders.
The ISVPS NAdvCert/VTAdvCert awards are not currently approved for inclusion in the RCVS register. They are internationally, peer recognised awards. Your postnominals can be displayed wherever you deem appropriate, except on the RCVS register.
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Nurse/Veterinary Technician Advanced Certificates
- Anaesthesia – NAdvCert/VTAdvCert(AnaesthNsg)
- Emergency and Critical Care – NAdvCert/VTAdvCert(E&CC)
- Medical Nursing – NAdvCert/VTAdvCert(MedNsg)
- Surgical Nursing – NAdvCert/VTAdvCert(SurgNsg)
Please note that this may not be an extensive list of qualifications provided by the ISVPS on a global level. For more detailed information, please contact our team.
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