HARTPURY_VETERINARY_NURSING_GUIDE_2023

PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS FOR PLACEMENTS

Duration / Hours Students must complete 1,800 hours by working a full-time (minimum 37 hour) week. There is an available period of 60 weeks (July - September) to do this. Students can undertake supervised out-of-hours or on-call work (when they are suitably experienced and comfortable to do so) but the time cannot be counted towards their training. During this placement, students are entitled to up 20 days leave plus bank holidays. Support and Training Students will be required to complete the Nursing Progress Log (NPL) in full during their time on placement. They will need to be allocated a trained Clinical Coach to support them, who will devote a minimum of three hours per week to training them. They will be allocated a university based Clinical Tutor to monitor their NPL and visit the practice to carry out a practice facilities check and NPL audit. This is in line with RCVS Training Practice requirements. Accommodation Whilst some students will be grateful for the offer of practice accommodation (as they may not be able to live at home due to location), the provision of accommodation is completely at the practices’ discretion and is by no means mandatory.

Payment Students completing full-time placements of 1,800 hours should not extend beyond 52 weeks, for the Practice to be exempt from HMRC National MinimumWage (NMW) Legislation. Prior Learning Prior to the commencement of their placement the students will have undertaken the following modules: • Clinical Anatomy and Physiology for Veterinary Nurses • Animal Husbandry for Veterinary Nurses • Professional Veterinary Nursing Practice • Patient Care 1 for Veterinary Nurses • Placement Preparation for Veterinary Nurses • Pharmacy Management. These modules provide students with a broad knowledge base from which to start their placement. These will have been simulated experiences; therefore, you will still be required to demonstrate skills in the usual way before recording them on the NPL.

JULY

The placement normally starts in early July, at the end of the students’ first year of university.

Did you know? Upon completion of their studies and registration to the RCVS, a lot of our students return to their placement practice for their first job after graduation.

If offering a placement sounds like something you would like to be involved in, please contact: heidi.cross@hartpury.ac.uk

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