Holder of a Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care, our Registered Veterinary Nurse Lauren particularly enjoys theatre nursing and spends, on average, 75% of her working week on theatre rotation. Who better to champion the role of the theatre nurse at 387 Vets during Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month!
Theatre nurses have the really important job of looking after patient comfort and safety during procedures, as well as helping the ops list to run smoothly. This means that, in addition to ensuring theatres are fully equipped and all machines are fully functioning, theatre nurses will take and run any requested pre-op bloods to check the op is safe to proceed, prep pre-op meds and pain relief under vet supervision, clip and clean the surgical operating site for op sterility, place catheters ahead of ops for easy meds delivery in case of emergency and monitor and record patient stats to check patient safety throughout.
This is Lauren monitoring patient stats on our multi parameter machine. She’s checking blood oxygen levels, carbon dioxide exhaled, pulse rate, blood pressure and number of breaths per minute as well as listening to the patient’s heart under anaesthesia, whilst assessing other indicators and factors to ensure the patient is safely controlled. Should any readings or observations concern her, she’s ready to respond.
We’re proud to have a fabulous team of qualified and experienced nurses monitoring every operation we carry out in practice, helping to keep your fur babies safe.
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This is beautiful Ruby this morning after being discharged from further visits to the vets so she and her family can now re-plan their holiday! Poor Ruby was hit by a car on Good Friday and suffered a nasty gash on her back leg and ‘road burn’ on her tummy. She has been coming in every 2-3 days for wound checks and dressing changes, including the application of Manuka-honey soaked dressings to support recovery. Well done Ruby for being such a brave patient! We were delighted at this morning’s visit to confirm that all wounds have completely healed, but we will miss seeing your beautiful face in practice so regularly and your cuddles!
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A massive shout out to our amazing reception team – Emma, Clare, Beth, Angie and Nikki – this Veterinary Receptionist Appreciation Week! Being a veterinary receptionist is a hugely diverse and busy role. As well as being our front of house representatives and the first touch point for clients contacting 387 Vets and the West Midlands Cat Clinic, our reception team triage cases to ensure you get the right care when you need it, book appointments, process payments, answer queries, dispense medications, transfer histories, liaise with clinical team, respond to WhatsApp messages, follow up test results, clean the reception, waiting and consult areas, ensure waiting room cat carrier covers, dog mats and treat jars are available and well stocked, that supportive literature is available in the waiting room, that client packs are made up … the list goes on! Being able to multitask is essential as is thriving on being busy and being passionate about the job. As well as being customer-facing and customer focused, our reception team are an invaluable support to the rest of our team and are integral to the success of the practice.
Reception team love meeting pets and people. They are helpful, compassionate, supportive, love seeing your pets as they move through various life stages and are always partial to a canine cuddle and a feline hello! Thank you Emma, Clare, Beth, Angie and Nikki for all you do!
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This year, both 387 Veterinary Centre and The West Midlands Cat Clinic are due to go through re-accreditation for our Cat Friendly Clinic Status and, once again, we’re aiming for gold! The process involves evidencing how we help to minimise feline stress in practice and in and around veterinary visits.
Part of the accreditation involves all clinical team completing a certain amount of feline-specific training including appropriate response to feline behaviours exhibited in practice.
Some of us have already accessed Feliway’s Cat Handling Programme, a practitioner training resource created by Ceva and International Cat Care. We were super-excited to see The West Midlands Cat Clinic featured throughout the set of online learning modules, demonstrating exemplar practice. Check out these stills to spot a few familiar faces too!
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This is 11 year old Sid who has recently been in for dental work with Selenia, our vet with a postgraduate certificate in small animal dentistry. We carry out staged dentals at 387 Vets. This means that procedures are time-limited to increase pet safety under anaesthesia so if a pet needs a significant amount of treatment, they will come in for more than one visit. Sid was a very brave boy, having 10 teeth removed at his first visit and 5 further extractions a month later.
Did you know that an adult dog has 42 teeth? And that, just as with humans, regular tooth brushing with pet toothpaste and a soft-bristled toothbrush is a really good dental hygiene routine to establish to help protect your dog’s teeth and gums? Get in touch to find out how best to get a toothbrushing regime started and for useful advice on additional things you can do to help keep your dog’s teeth and gums healthy.
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