Just keeping the whole vet theam going. When i was working up north when then new training system was put into place all the nurses up there went bonkers with power. When the vet/vet nurse confrence was on my boss was the branch president for the Nth QLD AVA so he was doing alot of the organising & the nurses doing the nurse side of it wanted to do it all on there own & when they approached lyppards & provet etc for sponsers they would give them any cuz they had already put out there allocated amount so they had to come crawling back. I was very anti VNCA up there cuz the nurses all had this chip on their shoulder about being better then the vets. But what we must all remember is that with out the vets there isn't a need for vet nurses.

Kerrie, I know what you mean about not being encouraged to use your skills at the clinic. I used to do all the pre meds, catheters, fluids etc (all under vets instruction) at the surgery i worked for at Kuranda but down here you get to do jack ****e. I actually really enjoy working at the vets down the rd (doing my best not to mention names here, but you know the "breeding" one) because you got to do HEAPS of stuff that a nurse should be able to do. You bassically went & got he vet when you needed them not they yelled out for you when the dog had ****ed on the wall.

While I am a firm believer that vet nursing is about the animals vomit, pee, poo the works. Its also about assisting the vet not just making them coffee ( which i refused to do, i don't drink it, I don't make it) No mater how skilled we become in the field at the end of the day the phone needs answering & the ****e needs a shoveling. I think it is a waste of resources if you need to employ someone for every level there is when we are trained to do it all.

Oh & Kerrie :smt016 to you too