• BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing

Where could your career take you?

Veterinary nursing offers an excellent professional pathway into management or further specialisation. The opportunities are varied and exciting, particularly if you enjoy biology and other sciences.

You could join a practice which delivers routine or emergency healthcare, a referral practice specialising in orthopaedics, oncology or ophthalmology or even work in a multi-million pound teaching hospital at the forefront of animal science, clinical procedures and genetics.

The vet nursing qualification is so well respected that it can help you find an animal related career even if you don’t go down the veterinary route.

Here are just some of the choices waiting for you:

• Veterinary nurse
• Practice manager
• Head nurse
• Nursing team leader
• Clinical coach
• Anaesthetist
• Specialist veterinary nurse
• Nursing assistant
• Animal welfare and rescue centre manager
• Animal behaviourist
• Animal rehabilitator
• Boarding kennels / catteries / livery stables manager
• Pet store advisor
• Grooming parlour owner
• Pharmaceuticals rep
• Nutritionist
• Researcher
• Lecturer
• Member of the armed forces

Your Reaseheath Experience

Although you’re only at college for part of the week you’ll feel very much at home on our rural campus with its commercial farm, equestrian centre, licensed zoo and kennels. During your breaks you can relax by our lake, eat in one of our food outlets or pay a visit to our well stocked library and quiet study areas.

Where you’ll be studying

You’ll be based at our newly developed dedicated veterinary nursing department with specialist practical study areas including clinical skills suite, diagnostic imaging suite and modern laboratories. Working with our industry-standard anaesthetic, radiography and theatre equipment, as well as kennel, ultrasound imaging, endoscopy and prep facilities, you’ll gain a variety of practical skills, especially as the rooms reflect real veterinary practice.

You’ll also have access to our Animal Centre with its licensed zoo collection of exotic, park and companion animals. We have over 1,000 animals in our zoo including a tapir, meerkats, cotton-top tamarins, Eurasian short clawed otters, birds of prey and a wide range of reptiles, amphibians and fish. We have our own vet clinic on-site and you could be invited to observe interesting clinical cases involving exotic animals.

Our popular canine department houses a new block of hospital kennels along with day boarding kennels for the dogs of staff members, some of which are used for student training.

Your placement

To become a registered veterinary nurse you need to find a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons approved practice which will support you through your training. You will also be provided with a Clinical Coach in practice who will be visited regularly by our Veterinary Nursing Training Practice Liaison/Assessor.