VETERINARY NURSING: SMALL ANIMAL GASTROINTESTINAL, URINARY, AND REPRODUCTIVE ECC

RACE Approved Interactive For Technicians/Nurses
Course meets the requirements for 12 RACE hours of continuing education credit for veterinary technicians in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB's RACE approval. However, participants should be aware that some boards have limitations on the number of hours accepted in certain categories and/or restrictions on certain methods of delivery. RACE Subject Category: Medical; Delivery Method: Interactive Distance; Program Number 750025. This course requires employment at a practice to complete one or more assignments.

RACE Approved Interactive For Technicians/Nurses

Course meets the requirements for 12 RACE hours of continuing education credit for veterinary technicians in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB's RACE approval. However, participants should be aware that some boards have limitations on the number of hours accepted in certain categories and/or restrictions on certain methods of delivery.

RACE Subject Category: Medical; Delivery Method: Interactive Distance; Program Number 750025.

This course requires employment at a practice to complete one or more assignments.

Course Focus - Learning Objectives - Completion Requirements
Veterinary Nursing: Small Animal Gastrointestinal, Urinary and Reproductive ECC explores gastrointestinal, urinary and reproductive emergencies. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to: give examples of the uses of medications compare and contrast ARF and CRF discuss the management of a patient with a urinary catheter, including maintaining the catheter and calculating urinary production differentiate between small and large bowel diarrhea distinguish between vomiting and regurgitation and explain the clinical significance of each explain the recognition of acute abdomen and discuss the significance of possible causes explain how to assist with peritoneal lavage or an abdominocentesis outline and explain the injuries that can occur with abdominal trauma Completion requirements: Instructor Graded Interactive Critical Thinking and Case Study Assignments: Designed to help the participant apply the newly learned skills and knowledge via implementation focused and patient based scenarios Comprehension Quizzes: Must be submitted with a score of 80% or better, multiple attempts Course Survey A certificate of completion is provided.

Course Focus - Learning Objectives - Completion Requirements

Veterinary Nursing: Small Animal Gastrointestinal, Urinary and Reproductive ECC explores gastrointestinal, urinary and reproductive emergencies.

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

give examples of the uses of medications
compare and contrast ARF and CRF
discuss the management of a patient with a urinary catheter, including maintaining the catheter and calculating urinary production
differentiate between small and large bowel diarrhea
distinguish between vomiting and regurgitation and explain the clinical significance of each
explain the recognition of acute abdomen and discuss the significance of possible causes
explain how to assist with peritoneal lavage or an abdominocentesis
outline and explain the injuries that can occur with abdominal trauma

Completion requirements:

Instructor Graded Interactive Critical Thinking and Case Study Assignments: Designed to help the participant apply the newly learned skills and knowledge via implementation focused and patient based scenarios

Comprehension Quizzes: Must be submitted with a score of 80% or better, multiple attempts

Course Survey

A certificate of completion is provided.

How Does the Enrollment Process Work?
This course is designed to be as schedule friendly as possible as we understand it can be hard to fit interactive CE into an already busy life. Open enrollment allows students to enroll in this course at any time. Once the course payment transaction has been submitted, we will receive a notification of enrollment. In addition, the student will be sent a couple of "heads up" emails. The payment receipt will be sent to the email address designated in the payment page of the shopping cart, by the person who paid. There is a post-payment manual process we must complete in order to add the new student to the course. Completing enrollments as quickly as possible is a priority but it can take a full 24 hours, especially on weekends and holidays. Once fully enrolled. the student will be sent a course welcome email containing important information, including how to access and log into the course.

How Does the Enrollment Process Work?

This course is designed to be as schedule friendly as possible as we understand it can be hard to fit interactive CE into an already busy life. Open enrollment allows students to enroll in this course at any time.

Once the course payment transaction has been submitted, we will receive a notification of enrollment. In addition, the student will be sent a couple of "heads up" emails. The payment receipt will be sent to the email address designated in the payment page of the shopping cart, by the person who paid.

There is a post-payment manual process we must complete in order to add the new student to the course.

Completing enrollments as quickly as possible is a priority but it can take a full 24 hours, especially on weekends and holidays. Once fully enrolled. the student will be sent a course welcome email containing important information, including how to access and log into the course.

Activity Requirements
Students are not expected to be online in the course at any specific times as there are no real time lectures. In order to remain active in the course, a student must post assignments on a regular basis. Module or final exams, reading or viewing training materials, or just logging into the course, does not meet this requirement. Assignments are course activites that require submission to the instructor for review, grading (pass/fail) and feedback. As long as the participant continues to make regular progress, course access time is not set to a specific deadline. If 30 days elapses without submitted assignment activity, the student will be removed from the course and graded out as incomplete, as the lack of activity will indicate the student wishes to drop the course. But What If Something Comes Up?: There are times that students will have situations that interfere with their ability to work the course on a regular basis. In that case an email to VetMedTeam, as soon as such a situation arises, will allow us to work with the student to adjust the time frame. It all comes down to communication.

Activity Requirements

Students are not expected to be online in the course at any specific times as there are no real time lectures.

In order to remain active in the course, a student must post assignments on a regular basis. Module or final exams, reading or viewing training materials, or just logging into the course, does not meet this requirement. Assignments are course activites that require submission to the instructor for review, grading (pass/fail) and feedback. As long as the participant continues to make regular progress, course access time is not set to a specific deadline.

If 30 days elapses without submitted assignment activity, the student will be removed from the course and graded out as incomplete, as the lack of activity will indicate the student wishes to drop the course.

But What If Something Comes Up?:

There are times that students will have situations that interfere with their ability to work the course on a regular basis. In that case an email to VetMedTeam, as soon as such a situation arises, will allow us to work with the student to adjust the time frame. It all comes down to communication.

Technology Requirements
Reading content within the course is provided via PDF therefore the ability to download files and open PDFs is required. It is recommended that participants utilize a program such as MS Word to create, and save, their assignment submission to their computer. Then the information can be pasted into the assignment submission area.

Participant Feedback
When asked what aspects of the course liked best some responses were: ...The in depth learning of the advanced illnesses that the course has offered to further knowledge me as a technician to think critically of what my patient needs in that moment in time during an emergency procedure. ...The case studies were very detailed and the reading material provided was very helpful. ...I now have a much better understanding of renal disease ...I appreciated the assignments that required researching drugs. As well as, the case reports help to practice for my plan to apply to the VTS (ECC). ...being presented with a case and making us think what is wrong and how to handle it

Participant Feedback

When asked what aspects of the course liked best some responses were:

...The in depth learning of the advanced illnesses that the course has offered to further knowledge me as a technician to think critically of what my patient needs in that moment in time during an emergency procedure.

...The case studies were very detailed and the reading material provided was very helpful.

...I now have a much better understanding of renal disease

...I appreciated the assignments that required researching drugs. As well as, the case reports help to practice for my plan to apply to the VTS (ECC).

...being presented with a case and making us think what is wrong and how to handle it

Course Instructor
Brandy Tabor, BS, CVT, VTS (ECC) A native of Colorado, Brandy graduated from Colorado State University in the spring of 2003 with a BS in Equine Sciences. While attending CSU, she worked as a nurse's assistant in the Critical Care Unit at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Here, she learned just how far you can go with a career as a veterinary technician. She enrolled in Front Range Community College in Loveland, CO, graduating in 2005. Brandy then moved to Parker, CO where she currently works as a senior emergency and critical care technician. She had the honor of becoming a member of the Academy of Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Technicians in 2008. Brandy has a passion for writing and has written several papers for Today's Veterinary Practice, Veterinary Nursing Journal, Today's Veterinary Technician, and Veterinary Technician. She is also a contributor in the 5th edition of Review Questions and Answers for Veterinary Technicians. In addition she is the current chair of the AVECCT Credentials Committee. Brandy currently lives with two birds, two cats, and two dogs.

Course Instructor

Brandy Tabor, BS, CVT, VTS (ECC)

A native of Colorado, Brandy graduated from Colorado State University in the spring of 2003 with a BS in Equine Sciences. While attending CSU, she worked as a nurse's assistant in the Critical Care Unit at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Here, she learned just how far you can go with a career as a veterinary technician. She enrolled in Front Range Community College in Loveland, CO, graduating in 2005. Brandy then moved to Parker, CO where she currently works as a senior emergency and critical care technician. She had the honor of becoming a member of the Academy of Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Technicians in 2008.

Brandy has a passion for writing and has written several papers for Today's Veterinary Practice, Veterinary Nursing Journal, Today's Veterinary Technician, and Veterinary Technician. She is also a contributor in the 5th edition of Review Questions and Answers for Veterinary Technicians. In addition she is the current chair of the AVECCT Credentials Committee.

Brandy currently lives with two birds, two cats, and two dogs.

Pricing
Price: $169.00 USD Practices may enroll individual team members. To learn how to assign a specific team member to a course, please visit the Assigning Students page. Please use this link to view the Withdrawal Policy for this course.

VETERINARY NURSING: SMALL ANIMAL GASTROINTESTINAL, URINARY, AND REPRODUCTIVE ECC

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