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Well firstly you have to like animals! Liking cleaning would help too!!
There are two ways to qualify,
1. Doing a full time degree in veterinary nursing.
I don’t know too much about this way but I found a web site that you can check out if this way suits you.
An Undergraduate foundation course
I have met a few girls along the way that have started this and realized that your not getting paid and your not getting the experience of actually working in a vets, and the experience counts for a lot.
2. Training whilst working in practice.
This is what I did and although I’m glad I did it this way, (because I got experience and I got paid at the same time), you still have down points. Although you are getting paid, believe me, it’s not very much! You start at the bottom. Also it can be quite stressful doing revision and course work whilst you are also working full time as well. This is why it took me longer to qualify. Although it’s a two year course, you don’t always start the course straight away, and you need to complete the first year portfolio and pass the exams before you move onto the next year. So it can take more like three years or sometimes more.
This way is done through the RCVS “
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
I hope you find this useful and I hope I have not put you off in any way. My intentions were to just tell it to you straight, by giving you the highs and the lows.
I won’t lie, on a quiet day it would be filled with endless cleaning, scrubbing kennels and mopping floors, but most of the days would be filled with helping animals through operations or through illnesses. These are the days where you can feel like you may have made a different, even if it is just making that animal comfortable during its last few minutes.
There are times I come home and can’t stop talking to my husband about interesting cases that we have had in during the day, and I’m sure after a while he stops listening to me as I’m babbling on. Other times I would come home tired and stressed because we were extremely busy that day or a vet had been particularly moody that day (like they sometimes are!).
Working in a vets is not something that I think I will do all my life, but getting the qualification means that I can work almost anywhere in the world, or do something like rescue work, or working with different types of animals. There are so many different routes you can take.
It has been a long road for me becoming a veterinary nurse, but I have finally made it. It has been a lot of had work, revising and getting through the portfolio, but now it is all done I can say that I have career that I love and a job that is different every day.
How to become a veterinary nurse
