Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be sharing some of our lectures from BVNA Congress 2024 – It’s the perfect way to relive some of the highlights (or catch up if you missed out) and get inspired for what’s to come at BVNA Congress 2025!
The veterinary nursing event of the year – Join us at BVNA Congress 2025
📅 Friday 10th October – Sunday 12th October | 📍 Telford International Centre
- Diamond celebrations – Our social events enable delegates to unwind with friends
- Tackling the biggest issues impacting the VN profession – Join us for ‘In Conversation’ debates
- ‘Progression’ for all career pathways – Twenty lecture streams with expert speakers
- VNJ Live – Authors and speakers will present their ideas and showcase their work
- Progression – Each morning includes a headline ‘Progression’ stream
- Practical learning – A selection of varied hands-on workshops, including Burtons’ dedicated clinical teaching and product demonstration zones
Feel inspired, empowered and supercharged as part of the veterinary nursing profession – For more information and to register, visit the BVNA website.
Laura qualified as a registered veterinary nurse in 2018 and has sixteen years’ nursing experience in small animal first opinion clinics. Laura has a passion for feline welfare, which inspired her to complete the ISFM Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour and Diploma in Feline Nursing to provide species-specific care, and support cat caregivers with first aid behaviour advice in the veterinary clinic. In 2022 Laura joined International Cat Care as a Cat Welfare Assistant and assists with the programme delivery for the Cat Friendly Clinic, creating content for the charity’s social media channels, courses, newsletters, CPD, congresses, and campaigns and delivers webinars and lectures for veterinary conferences.
Synopsis:
The lecture will explore how the owner and caregiver can be supported and provided with resources to support cat friendly travel to the veterinary clinic prior to their consultation, including stressors on their journey, cat carrier consideration and training, travel tips and positive reinforcement to support travel.
It will also explain how to prepare the environment for a feline friendly consultation, including the equipment required, how to set the room up, such as providing a safe environment that allows the cat to explore or to hide, to provide options to perch, and alternative locations for examination.
We will also discuss how to interact with cats in a cat friendly way that respects the cat as a species and provides them with choice and control and how to determine body languages. We will discuss suitable terminology to explain behaviour and identify positive reinforcements techniques.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to advise owners on preparation for travel to a feline friendly consult
- Be able to prepare the examination environment and consider feline friendly requirements
- Implement interactions and positive reinforcement for feline friendly examinations