Hilary Orpet & Perdi Welsh 
Handbook of Veterinary Nursing 

Handbook of Veterinary Nursing presents essential
guidance and helpful tips on developing and delivering high quality
nursing care and skills.

Fully updated, this easy-to-follow guide reflects recent changes
to veterinary nursing qualifications, current terminology and drugs
in use. The emphasis is on the importance of working methodically,
using high quality procedures, to help the whole veterinary team
ensure the most successful outcomes in animal care.

Written in note form for quick reference by veterinary nurses
and technicians at all stages of their training and career, this
will be invaluable for both exam revision and quick reference in
clinic.

Contents include:

The nursing process in veterinary care, physical assessment of
the patient, managing the hospital environment, managing the
operating room, surgical nursing activities, anaesthesia,
diagnostic imaging, diagnostic tests, triage and emergency
procedures, and essential calculations for drugs, fluids, nutrition
and radiographic exposures.

Key features:

*Gives clinical advice quickly and simply

*Written by authors with many years experience of veterinary
nurse training and education

*Contains essential calculations

*Illustrated in colour throughout

表中的内容

Section 1 Contemporary Veterinary Nursing

Section 2 Managing the Hospital Environment

Section 3 Managing the Operating Room

Section 4 The Operating Room – Surgical Nursing Activities

Section 5 Anaesthesia

Section 6 Diagnostic Imaging

Section 7 Diagnostic Tests

Section 8 Triage and Emergency Procedures

Appendix: Calculations

关于作者

Hilary Orpet and Perdi Welsh are Lecturers in Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, UK