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Opinion & Comment: In need of nursing
Posted by: JimEdwards on Apr 01, 2004 - 01:58 PM
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Source: The Vet Record COMMENT 3rd April 2004
A SUMMARY of the results of a nationwide survey relating to the recruitment and retention, education and training of veterinary nurses (VNs), which is to be made available during the BSAVA Congress in Birmingham this weekend, does not make for comfortable reading. Regarding recruitment and retention, it tends to confirm anecdotal reports that many veterinary practices have difficulty retaining VNs once they have qualified, reporting that 1059 VNs have qualified in practice since January 2000, and 463 have left. Almost half of the VNs left within the first year, and only one-third of all VNs stayed in the same practice for more than two years. More than half of the practices responding to the survey had attempted to recruit a VN in the past year and, in almost two-thirds of them, the vacancy was unfilled for between two and six months. Interestingly, employers and veterinary nurse approved centres (VNACs) did not believe that there were difficulties in retaining newly qualified VNs, while VNs thought that there were. Clearly, there is a mismatch in perceptions here, and it is in everyone’s interests that the differences are resolved.
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