ABSTRACT: In a more personal series of VNJ features on career path experiences from within the veterinary nursing profession, we begin with an unusual career change story from interiors stylist to Student Veterinary Nurse. This shows how diverse veterinary nurse backgrounds can be and how life experience can help with managing such a variable role.

Author: Sally Curtis RVN, BA(Hons) Fashion Promotion & Illustration

Sally has worked in a variety of small animal first opinion practices in Kent over the past five years and qualified in her late thirties as an RVN from College of Animal Welfare in April 2019. She now works as an RVN at a referral hospital in Canterbury. Her special interests in practice lie within the worlds of wound management as well as communication, and she is currently working to achieve a Chartered Institute of Marketing award in Digital Marketing in her spare time. She currently lives in rural Kent with her part-ner, their working cocker spaniel Henry, two outdoor cats and four indoor cats including a very ‘characterful’ Cornish Rex called Fig.
Email: sallycurtis82@hotmail.com

Keywords: career, veterinary nursing, veterinary profession, change

To cite this article: VNJ 2021 Volume 36 (1) pp33-35