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. Liza W Rudolph, BAS, RVT, VTS (CP-CF, SAIM), Manager
of the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Clinical Practice
(AVTCP) and Maryland Veterinary Technician Association,
USAVeterinary Nursing Care Plans: Theory and Practice does a
thorough job in defining nursing care plans. Although veterinary
nursing plans are not commonly used in current practice in America,
the author makes a convincing argument for their implementation.
She highlights the importance of providing holistic care, improving
client communication, promoting collaboration among the veterinary
team, and instituting clinical governance and asserts that the use
of veterinary nursing plans can facilitate those aims and increase
the bottom line of a practice. Lisa L. Eller, DVM, Arthur
Veterinary Clinic, USA in JAVMA, Vol 253, No. 6, September 2018
This book is well structured. It begins by introducing care plans –
what they are, and why and how they should be used. The author
includes examples of different types of plan, such the Roper, Logan
and Tierney model and also Orem. This makes it ideal for students
like myself who are learning about care plans and how to implement
them effectively in practice. It would also be a great read for
those wanting to optimise their use of such plans in practice. I
believe this is a fantastic book; it has greatly expanded my
knowledge of care planning and its successful implementation and I
would recommend it to anyone seeking to learn more about care
planning.Charlotte Evans, student vet nurse, in Vet Record,
December 2019
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. Liza W Rudolph, BAS, RVT, VTS (CP-CF, SAIM), Manager
of the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Clinical Practice
(AVTCP) and Maryland Veterinary Technician Association,
USAVeterinary Nursing Care Plans: Theory and Practice does a
thorough job in defining nursing care plans. Although veterinary
nursing plans are not commonly used in current practice in America,
the author makes a convincing argument for their implementation.
She highlights the importance of providing holistic care, improving
client communication, promoting collaboration among the veterinary
team, and instituting clinical governance and asserts that the use
of veterinary nursing plans can facilitate those aims and increase
the bottom line of a practice. Lisa L. Eller, DVM, Arthur
Veterinary Clinic, USA in JAVMA, Vol 253, No. 6, September 2018
This book is well structured. It begins by introducing care plans –
what they are, and why and how they should be used. The author
includes examples of different types of plan, such the Roper, Logan
and Tierney model and also Orem. This makes it ideal for students
like myself who are learning about care plans and how to implement
them effectively in practice. It would also be a great read for
those wanting to optimise their use of such plans in practice. I
believe this is a fantastic book; it has greatly expanded my
knowledge of care planning and its successful implementation and I
would recommend it to anyone seeking to learn more about care
planning.Charlotte Evans, student vet nurse, in Vet Record,
December 2019
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