You’ve come to the right place to find news items, blogs and useful articles relating to the veterinary profession.
Feel free to browse, and share our articles with your veterinary friends and colleagues using the share links at the bottom of each article.
Puppy Classes: Your Five Top Tips
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldA puppy class run without an adequate level of thought and knowledge can definitely be worse than not running them at all, so we asked previous Puppy Classes candidate Julia Burges what her key areas of advice are.
Performance Appraisals – a valuable tool for staff development
/0 Comments/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldDo you think your team members view their performance review as an important aspect of their career development, or do you feel that you may be missing opportunities to get the very best from your team?
ONCORE wins place at Innovation Symposium
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldFor her achievements with her work with ONCORE, Veterinary Nurse Jill Macdonald was awarded a place at the RCVS’s inaugural Innovation Symposium, held at The Shard, London.
Veterinary Nurse Retention – should I stay or should I go?
/in Newsroom /by Jill Macdonaldn a recent article in Practice Life Magazine, (the joint publication of the VPMA and the SPVS) Jill Macdonald wrote about how a management approach, and how we support and nurture our veterinary nurses, can have a massive impact on their experience in practice and whether they choose to stay. This article offers a brief overview of the topics discussed.
Weight management workshop hits the target
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldPet obesity is on the increase, and was recently cited as the number one welfare concern of over 60% of UK vets (sadly nurses weren’t asked, but I’m sure they’d agree). My feeling is that as a profession, it is our responsibility to tackle this issue..
Nurses, consults and communication
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldONCORE’s Jill Macdonald has been leading an ongoing project over the past year and a half to devise a Veterinary Nurse-specific client communication ‘model’.
Nurse-led Physiotherapy Clinics for Senior Patients
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldThis short article, compiled by Veterinary Nurse Sally Ward from the Tilehurst Veterinary Centre, relays the journey that she took in setting up Physiotherapy Clinics in her practice, and the many rewards (some of which were unexpected) that this brought to Sally, her patients and their owners.
Working as a team to develop practice clinics
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldVeterinary nurse, and previous participant on our ‘Nurse Clinics – putting our ideas into practice’ course, Teresa Newsome, tells us about how working as a team to develop nurse clinics has had an impact on more than just their bottom line.
Getting to the crux of motivation
/0 Comments/in Newsroom /by Simon MitchellAn overview of the basics of motivation, and how motivation can help us to achieve team members who work to higher standards, learn faster, have more ideas and are less resistant to change. Sound good?
Nurse Clinics – helping nurses make a difference
/in Newsroom /by Jill MacdonaldIf you’d like any advice on on running nurse clinics in your practice, then contact us anytime – Jill will be more than happy to talk about clinics anytime, and there is no obligation to book a course – we’re just happy to help practices wherever we can.
Tel 0121 663 1971
email: info@oncoreepd.co.uk