Professional Responsibility Flashcards
Animal health and welfare should be your first concern
In seeking to provide the most appropriate attention for animals in your care.
Vet nurses must keep within owm area of competence and refer cases responsibly
All animals should be treated humanely and with respect
Maintain and continue to develop your professional knowledge and skills
Embrace reflective practice
Provide emergency first aid and pain relief
Report where there are concerns about animal welfare
Monitor and review nursing practice with the aim of constantly improving own nursing care.
Foster and maintain good relationship with clients, earning trust, respecting their views and protecting client confidentiality
Uphold the good reputation of the vet nurse profession
Avpod voicing or writing disparaging comments about a professional colleague.
Ensure the integrity of statements signed by vet nurses.
Foster and endeavor to maintain good relationships with colleagues.
Understand and comply with legal obligations in relation rto the supply, administration, safe keeping registered premises, prescription of vet medicinal products.
Familiarise yourself with and observe the relavant legislation in relation to vet nurses.
Respond promptly, fully and courteously
To complaints and criticism
The rcvs code of professional conduct (2012)
Identifies key responsibilities of vet nurses to their patients, clients, public and colleagues, as well as responsibility under the law.
The competence of a vn is a professional requirememt for the granting of registration.
Ethical principles are likely to be most commonly applied to situations in which vns work and experience from other professions, and it is in this respect thay vns are likely to need detailed guidance.
Must always comply with
Data protection act 1984. Disclosure of records may be ordered in disciplinary or court hearings. The rcvs may request copies of case records routinely in thr course of investigating a complaint.
Must be aware of the exceptions for listed, registered and svns in accordance with
The vet surgeons act 1966 (schedule 3 ammendment) order 2002
Schedule 3 allows anyone to give first aid in an emergency for the purpose of life saving amd relieving suffering.
This can include the owner of an animal, a member of owners household or an employee of owner. They may also give it minor medical treatments.
The five freedoms first proposed by the
Farm animal welfare Council 1979.
