Veterinay Nursing Practical Workshop Adult

Course information

These days will form part of the initial training of new clinical supervisors but attendance by active, experienced clinical supervisors is encouraged. This is to ensure supervisors remain up to date and compliant with Awarding Organisation requirements and is especially important for supervisors of students with imminent OSCEs.

Veterinary Nurse Students are assessed in many ways before they can qualify; their training log is used to assess their practical capabilities. When a clinical supervisor has confirmed competence for a student in all of their tasks they are confirming that the student is competent in the Day One Competencies for Veterinary Nurses.

The training log must be complete before students can enter their OSCEs. Therefore, the OSCE tests, in part, are used as an assessment of the Clinical Supervisor’s judgement, as well as the student’s ability. It is therefore imperative that Clinical Supervisors are observed and standardised in the assessment of the practical ability of their students.

Supervisors who have attended these events have stated that they have increased their understanding of the OSCE requirements and, in turn, this proves invaluable to their students. Students should be practicing practical tasks as part of their training log and OSCE preparation within their training practices, in addition to the support they receive from the VN Centre. There is the added bonus that these days provide 5 hours of really useful, affordable, locally accessed CPD.

What You Will Learn

How to assess students undertaking OSCE exam practice.
Brief overview of the selected OSCE tasks.

Entry Requirements

RCVS registered MRCVS/RVN

Assessment

Supervisors will be observed by IQAs as part of initial training and also can form their yearly IQA observation.

Bicton College

Bicton College

Bicton College is based in East Devon, near Exeter, and set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, just two miles from the Jurassic Coast. The historic Georgian mansion, commercial farm, animal husbandry school, modern veterinary nursing building, world-class engineering and heavy plant machinery workshop, walled garden and arboretum are all set in over 200 hectares of historic parkland.

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