BSc Veterinary Nursing with placement year
Entry requirements
A level: BCC Biology or Double Award Life and Health Sciences. Single Award Life and Health Sciences does not meet the essential subject requirement.
About this course
BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing, combining clinical practice with animal health and welfare. Core topics include Laboratory Techniques, Research Methods, Clinical Skills, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme includes a minimum 1,680-hour placement in a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons registered training practice during the third year, followed by a final-year Research Project. Graduates may apply to register as a veterinary nurse with the RCVS.
Modules
- Anatomy and physiology
- Academic and professional development
- Essential veterinary nursing skills
- Animal husbandry
- Health and disease
- Laboratory techniques for the veterinary nurse
- Medicines for medical nursing
- Diagnostic techniques
- Anaesthesiand pain management
- Theatre practice and surgical nursing
- Evidence-based nursing
- Species-specific nursing
- Placement
- Research Project
- Global animal disease
- Applied clinical veterinary nursing
- Professional registration
- Farm animal healthcare
- Equine healthcare
- Business and management
- Complementary therapies for the veterinary patient