Course Overview

Develop your specialism as an advanced nursing practitioner in your chosen field while enhancing your skills and knowledge. Our Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Equine Veterinary Nursing (Critical Care) focuses on areas of clinical interest and mapping out individual pathways for career progression.

This course is ideal for those wanting to combine working in practice with studying for an advanced qualification. All compulsory delivery is flexible and online, with optional study days at weekends providing opportunities to access our world-class facilities and meet with fellow students and staff face-to-face. The course can be tailored to fit around your existing commitments, with options to complete in one year or spread out over two/three years.

The course has been designed for veterinary nurses in equine practice with a special interest in anesthesia and analgesia and in the intensive care of equine patients. In addition to advancing your equine critical care nursing knowledge and skills, the course will encourage you to suggest creative solutions to applied problems in equine anesthesia and intensive care practice, even in cases of incomplete evidence or uncertainty, while acknowledging professional responsibility.

You'll be supported to set aspirational individual and team goals, and to supervise others to achieve these. This course will develop your approach to providing, monitoring, and appraising safe and effective nursing care to equine patients undergoing surgical procedures. You'll be supported to develop skills in identifying and evaluating appropriate anesthetic and analgesic protocols for these patients and sharing clinical information with the wider team responsible for patient care.

General Eligibility

All applicants will be interviewed to reassure both parties that this course is the most appropriate choice and to discuss the most appropriate learning pathway for each individual student. Individual program planning will be discussed with each applicant at the interview to suggest the most appropriate schedule.

Academic

A typical offer for the Postgraduate Certificate is a Level 3 Diploma, FdSc, or BSc (Hons) in Equine Veterinary Nursing

Applicants must be a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Registered Equine Veterinary Nurse or, if an international applicant, must hold equivalent qualifications

International students

We welcome applications from international students and accept international qualifications at equivalent levels to the above

You may also need to evidence proficiency in the English language

Only applicants who are RCVS Registered Veterinary Nurses, or who are on a statutory register in their home country, are eligible to gain the RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Nursing.

Part Time Work Details

The 20 hours are the total hours. It is not per job. If you hold multiple part-time jobs then the total hours of all the work you are doing are added together.

Language Requirement

• IELTS score of 6.5 and TOEFL score of 79-93