Nurse Utilisation: Empowering your nursing teams to enhance your business
Making the Most of Your Nursing Team
Anne Selfe, RVN, Cromwell Vets
Anne will demonstrate how making the best use of your nurses can benefit the team, the business and the clients and their pets. She will review what PCAs, SVNs and RVNs can do and how this in turn benefits the business.
To Charge or Not to Charge – That is the Question!
Andrea Jeffery
As nurse leaders we should be supporting optimisation of the nursing role, explore growth of nursing services and ensure we are charging appropriately for nursing services. This session will look at how we can calculate how many consultations a nurse could see a day when focusing on workflow efficiency, resource management and appropriate delegation and will consider whether we should be charging for nurses’ time and how this can be calculated.
Student Veterinary Nurse Training: A shared responsibility
Stacey Bullock & Nicky Smith, Lantra
Let’s imagine a world where everyone played a part in Student Veterinary Nurse training. Everyone passes on the flame to enthuse and influence the next generation, nurturing the very roots of our future profession. Being a TP requires investiture and engagement by the whole team. Join Stacey and Nicky as they show you how to improve your team culture and nurse training.
Learning Outcomes
- How we can offer development, growth and empowerment to our nursing teams which will also provide the best possible nursing care for clients and their pets.
- Be able to calculate the true cost of recruiting a consulting nurse so that they can support the financial health of the practice.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities in student veterinary nurse training and how team culture can be improved by supporting student veterinary nurses.
