Preface.
Chapter 1: History
Chapter 2: The Nursing Process
Chapter 3: Nursing models
Chapter 4: Veterinary nursing care plans
Chapter 5: How to write a care plan.
Chapter 6: Nursing care plans and the patient
Chapter 7: Nursing care plans and the profession
Chapter 8: Nursing care plans and education
Chapter 9: Nursing care plans and research
Chapter 10: The future - are they useful or not?
Conclusion
Index
Helen Ballantyne, after graduating with a degree in Pharmacology in 2002, qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2005. Combining her passions for veterinary nursing and travel, she began a 8-year stint as a locum nurse working nationally and internationally, developing experience in referral medicine and surgery, charity practice, emergency nursing and exotics. During this time, she spent five years on the British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA) council in a variety of roles, culminating in her being awarded honorary membership in 2016. In 2013, she qualified as a human-centred nurse taking up a position at the United Kingdom's largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital, Papworth NHS Foundation Trust. After two years working in intensive care, she moved to the transplant team. Within this role, she supports the ongoing care of patients, pre and post-transplant. She is also a member of the National Organ Retrieval team, on call to facilitate the collection of organs from deceased donors. Helen remains a Registered Veterinary Nurse and has developed a strong interest in the principles of One Health, supporting collaborative practice between the medical and veterinary professions. She regularly lectures and writes about ideas and ways of working that may be shared between the professions to support clinical and professional practice. As she goes to work, her friends and family take great delight in asking her, 'Is it humans or animals today?'
Nursing Care Plans are now becoming an essential part of nursing animals in our care. They are embedded into the syllabus of Veterinary Nursing students and this knowledge should be developed through a RVN's career. Helen manages to take the important points for care plans and put them into a useable format that any veterinary nurse or student can learn from and develop their knowledge. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who wants to enhance their nursing skills and documentation with patients.
Sam Morgan Cert Ed DipAVN(Medical & Surgical) RVN, BVNA President 2015/17 Helen Ballantyne has done an excellent job: the book is appropriately referenced, takes wonderful comparisons from human nursing, addresses common concerns and questions about nursing care plans, and above all makes the concept of these plans very relatable to the daily practice of veterinary nurses and technicians.![]() |
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