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The veterinary thought exchange (vtx) was founded in 2019 by RCVS and EBVS Veterinary Specialists Scott Kilpatrick and Liz Bode. The vision for vtx is to provide high-quality, friendly veterinary CPD that both educates and inspires our colleagues, delivered in a professional and compassionate manner. Through the vtx:podcast, we hope to start conversations with as many of you as possible.
Episodes
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
This week we are joined by Lacey. Born in South Wales in a small valleys town she decided to swap paths from law and followed her passion to become a veterinary nurse. Lacey has enjoyed a diverse career and has learnt to embrace the bumps in the road along the way. She currently works as a locum RVN throughout the UK. Lacey is passionate about wellness, nurse training, brachycephalic education and veterinary culture. Lacey founded veterinary pay it forward in 2018. If you only do one thing this week then check out her Facebook page and pay it forward!
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
This week we chat to Anna about her career as a vet and her amazing campaign ‘Vet Your Breasts’. It was one of those typical Fridays in the lead up to Christmas with a 4pm emergency and a late discharge. Anna just managed to get to the pool for a swim before it closed. That’s when she saw a breast cancer awareness poster in the changing room. She felt a lump in her left boob and 2 months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33 and life turned upside-down. If you only do one thing today ‘Vet Your Breasts’.
website: www.vetyourbreasts.com
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vet-Your-Breasts-108626200807292
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vetyourbreasts/
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
In this episode of the veterinary thought exchange podcast, we spoke to Matt about his career and how he became one of the co-founders of The Zero Pain Philosophy… we also have a chat about analgesia and all things anaesthesia, looking at the evidence behind the use of paracetamol in dogs.
Matt is an internationally respected British anaesthetist. A specialist in anaesthesia and analgesia, Matt trained at the University of Liverpool and now works at Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists in the UK. Matt is passionate about pain management, lectures on the subject globally and is the author of many international anaesthesia publications. Matt is President of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia.
www.facebook.com/zeropainphilosophy
https://www.instagram.com/thezeropainphilosophy/
For more information about vtx, please visit our website: www.vtx-cpd.com
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
This week we had the privilege of chatting to Bronwen Eastwood, Co-Founder of VETbytes. We discuss Bronwen’s amazing career that has taken her from Brighton to Belize and back again! Bronwen went on to co-found VETbytes, an EBVM resource for vets working in first opinion practice, after recognising a void for a resource that provides up-to-date, evidence-based, user friendly clinical information. Alongside co-founder Zoe Coker, Bronwen co-wrote the treatment guides for the VETbytes emergency and critical care app, a subscription-based resource designed to support vets who need to keep up to date and provide an excellent service to their clients and patients. Check them out!
https://www.facebook.com/vetbytes/
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
This week we are joined by Lindsay Davies RVN. Lindsay qualified as an RVN in 2017 and shortly after moved to the RVC to specialise in emergency and critical care veterinary nursing. Lindsay loves teaching and wanted to help others learn what she had, so, she created @theeccrvn on Instagram and a little while after, a CPD platform called Veterinary Webinurse. Lindsay is currently in the process of completing the Vets Now ECC Certificate and doing a study/research project on the use of bowel management systems in canine intensive care unit patients. Yes… she really does love poo in a bag!
www.facebook.com/veterinarywebinurse
www.instagram.com/veterinarywebinurse
To find out more about vtx please visit www.vtx-cpd.com
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
We are so excited to be talking to Jack this week about his career as a veterinary nurse. Jack qualified in 2018 and now works in emergency and critical care. Jack has many strings to his bow and chatted about his love for caring for and breeding tortoises as well his international bowling stardom!
We also chat about some of our veterinary inspirations and experiences of coming out in the workplace. Jack is also involved with the British Veterinary Nursing Association Council and is keen to promote vet nursing within the wider community and profession.
Instagram - @Pye_rvn
Facebook - @JackPyeRVN
Twitter - @PyeRVN96
www.pyervn.co.uk - Website under construction.
To find out more about vtx please visit www.vtx-cpd.com
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
In this episode we talk to Hayley Walters RVN, MBE about her exciting career and the amazing adventures that she has had all around the world. Hayley talks about her love for the profession and all things animal welfare. Hayley is passionate about teaching and sharing her knowledge and she loves loves loves a ‘pain score’. Listen and find out why.
Links to some of the projects and learning materials that Hayley has been involved in creating, can be found below:
Veterinary Nursing Online Skills resource https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/jeanne-marchig-centre/cpd/vnos
MOOC in Animal Behaviour and Welfare and The Truth About Cats and Dogs https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/jeanne-marchig-centre/cpd/online-courses
Here at the veterinary thought exchange we like to ask #whatareyouthinking? If you have any topics you would like discussed, please drop us an email info@vtx-cpd.com
For more information about vtx, please visit our website: www.vtx-cpd.com
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
For this episode, we spoke to Simon Patchett about his veterinary career so far. Simon graduated from Nottingham Vet School in 2018 having intercalated a postgraduate certificate in veterinary education. From there he started a rotating internship in a private multidisciplinary referral hospital, upon completion joined the out of hours team there. He has since moved to a sole charge role as an out of hours vet and we chat through each of these challenges. Simon tells us how COVID effected his working pattern and the highs and lows of living in a camper van! Our clinical discussion this week is about the challenges of diagnosing and treating pancreatitis cases... would you give steroids?
For more information about vtx, please visit our website: www.vtx-cpd.com
Here at the veterinary thought exchange we like to ask #whatareyouthinking? If you have any topics you would like discussed, please drop us an email info@vtx-cpd.com
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
We are so excited to catch up with Laura for the 8th episode of the podcast. We got together to chat about nursing medical outpatients, massive scary medicine exams, having panic attacks in airports, being creative in the veterinary industry and much more! Laura also produced an amazing guide to nursing the patient with chronic disease that is available on our blog https://bit.ly/33iuF3L.
Please check out her amazing website and social media platforms. So much amazing clinical information and an all-round lovely person!
www.veterinaryinternalmedicinenursing.com
Laura qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2010, gained the DipAVN in 2014 and completed a degree in advanced veterinary nursing in 2017. Laura joined a newly-opened referral centre in Hampshire in 2015, to support and develop the Internal Medicine service. Here, her passion for medical nursing grew, leading to Veterinary Technician Specialist certification in small animal internal medicine in 2019. That same year, Laura developed a social media page and website, "Veterinary Internal Medicine Nursing', to educate and inspire nurses wanting to learn about medical patients, and speaks nationally on a variety of medical nursing topics. Laura currently works at The Ralph Referral Centre, where she nurses both high-dependency and medical patients, whilst leading the team of critical care nurses, She serves on both the Feline Focus and Companion editorial board and was elected to join BVNA council this year.
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
In this episode of the veterinary thought exchange podcast, we spoke to Carl about his career and how he became one of the co-founders of The Zero Pain Philosophy… we also have a chat about analgesia and all things anaesthesia! Looking at the evidence behind the use of tramadol in companion animals.
Carl is an anaesthesia and analgesia specialist, has a passion for teaching and upskilling vets and vet nurses on skills to use to optimise their pain and patient management during anaesthesia and the perioperative period and beyond.
www.facebook.com/zeropainphilosophy
insta thezeropainphilosophy
For more information about vtx, please visit our website: www.vtx-cpd.com