Elements and Performance Criteria
- Facilitate admission and discharge referral patients
- Explain admission and discharge procedures to the relevant parties and complete procedures for referral patients
- Document patient case history, diagnostics and treatments information and relay information to stakeholders
- Comply with practice policies on information security and privacy requirements
- Explain specific nursing requirements to stakeholders and make follow-up appointments as per veterinary instructions
- Forward details of patient’s treatment and after care to the referring veterinarian
- Interact with other veterinary health care professionals
- Identify the range of veterinary health care professionals and services available for veterinary practice needs
- Align veterinary health care professionals and support services to specific veterinary case needs
- Use effective communication strategies and appropriate veterinary terminology when liaising with consulting veterinary health care professionals
- Communicate with clients about veterinary processes
- Explain veterinary terminology to clients to ensure they understand relevant treatments
- Use effective communication strategies to verify and clarify instructions from veterinarians or other health care professionals
- Interpret abbreviations used in workplace specific contexts and use them in recording information
- Seek out and apply veterinary nursing information
- Critically evaluate collected data using a variety of methods and sources relevant to the clinical setting
- Improve existing workplace practices and procedures using knowledge of the historical, theoretical and philosophical aspects of the field of practice
- Evaluate new treatments, protocols and procedures within the scope of work role and report them to supervisor
- Evaluate research strategies and methodologies for relevance, reliability and quality of evidence
- Critically evaluate specific research information
- Contribute to professional development
- Establish links with veterinary nurses and other relevant allied healthcare professionals
- Identify and use personal professional development opportunities to plan skills and knowledge enhancement for self and others
- Monitor changes in veterinary nursing procedures and techniques and report findings to others
- Present case study and literature review to others in a public or peer setting
- Transfer skills and knowledge to new contexts