Veterinary Nurse Training - Examples

PORTFOLIO

The Portfolio is a record of the practical work carried out by the student nurse during her course of study. It covers every part of that work in the form of Logsheets and Risk Assessments, with some odds and ends thrown in.

The Portfolio for NVQ Level 2 includes logsheets for health and safety, working relationships, reception duties, dispensing medication to clients, giving information to clients, admitting animals for treatment, discharging animals after treatment, preparing for and assisting with medical procedures and investigations, basic animal management, basic first aid and administration of medication to animals. For Level 3, it includes laboratory and diagnostic aids, maintaining laboratory equipment, fluid management, medical nursing, radiography, ultrasound/endoscopy, maintaining asepsis, sterilisation using an autoclave, sterilisation other than using an autoclave, general surgical nursing, maintaining equipment, anaesthesia, the anaesthetic emergency box, maintaining supplies of veterinary materials and maintaining the availability of equipment.

The work described in the Portfolio is supervised by the training nurse or veterinary surgeon and signed off at the end of the report by a qualified Assessor in the practice. It will eventually be sent to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for further assessment, and must be up to a suitable standard before the student will be allowed to qualify as a fully trained Veterinary Nurse

Portfolio Logsheet Examples (Volume 9 of Veterinary Nurse Training) includes a full completed example of every Logsheet, Risk Assessments for every area (laboratory, anaesthesia, radiography etc) in the Portfolio, and examples of all the Module Assessment Summaries which come at the end of each section and are completed by the Assessor. The student nurse must obviously use her own cases from her veterinary practice, but when she comes to write them up she can refer to Volume 9, which will show exactly how much detail and what kind of detail is required for each case.

The next pages show a typical logsheet for Laboratory and Diagnostic Aids. This particular logsheet would be completed by a nurse at an advanced stage of her training to NVQ Level 3, but the layout is basically fairly similar for all logsheets.

To assist Assessors and Internal Verifiers in practice as well as showing students where they may be going wrong, a number of Assessor's Comments and student responses have been filled in throughout the book, and these are typical of the sort of comments which should be made in the Assessor's Comments columns.

View a portfolio example (Word document.)