VPN Plus+ ExclusiveEuthanasia tips to make the final goodbye more compassionateDecember 9, 2021Setting the stage for the experience that honors the bond between pet and owner through the veterinary comfort room has become an essential part of any clinic or hospital. A comfortable environment equipped to help the patient and client through the emotional suffering that is part of the pet loss experience is vital.
Education Center - SponsoredBringing specialist level interpretation in-clinicby • Zoetis DiagnosticsImagine a busy weekday morning in a typical small animal clinic. The appointments are fully booked, the phones are ringing, and in comes Yogi, a five year old terrier mix whose owners are clearly worried.
Euthanasia focus of upcoming VetCE Virtual eventNovember 22, 2021Veterinary professionals looking to refine their euthanasia appointments and strengthen client relations can sign up for an upcoming live virtual continuing education (CE) event.
The Rainbow Bridge: Putting protocols into practiceSeptember 13, 2021Now more than ever, it behooves us to understand the perception of the human-animal bond is evolving.
Elevating your team in hospice careAugust 30, 2021Veterinary teams have been delivering end-of-life care, or hospice care, but it may not have been labeled or “packaged” in this way.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveManaging pet loss grief and sadnessAugust 19, 2021There are techniques we can use within the practice to help prevent euthanasia and pet deaths from harming or causing long-term fatigue in clients and ourselves. One of those ways is by helping join pet owners in their grief without internalizing their trauma for ourselves. We need to remember we are not grieving for that pet in that moment, but instead we are empathizing with that owner’s sadness.
The pandemic's impact on veterinary medicine's most sacred responsibilityAugust 16, 2021Illness and death slam all of us with the realization we do not have full control over life. Lack of control breeds fear.
Accidental euthanasia gets veterinarian delicensedJuly 26, 2021A veterinarian in Atlantic Canada has agreed to forfeit his license after accidentally euthanizing a dog.
Hospice care in veterinary medicineJune 11, 2021Our culture as a whole does not honor the process of dying in the same way we do the process of birth and new life.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveCareer and entrepreneurial opportunities for veterinary nursesMarch 12, 2021Sometimes we need to watch others reach for their full potential and break out of the box in order to realize this same opportunity exists for us. It exists for all veterinary nurses, too. The box veterinary medicine has created is an invisible and false narrative, and our opportunities are only truly limited by our imagination. I’ve included a few examples of ways to enrich veterinary nurse careers, subsequently boosting the quality of veterinary medicine.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveRewire fixed ideas to ease personal torment over euthanasiaDecember 3, 2020Learn tips to focus your mindset on the positive aspects of euthanasia to boost your well-being.