{"id":296,"date":"2020-05-26T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/?p=296"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:59:18","slug":"vn-awareness-nurse-profile-faye-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/vn-awareness-nurse-profile-faye-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"VN Awareness \u2013 nurse profile Faye Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month, a whole month dedicated to raising awareness of the veterinary nursing profession and the vital role they play in animal care and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Faye is our Head Nurse here at Blythwood Hatch End and she kindly took time out to tell us about life as a vet nurse.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3>How long have you been a Vet Nurse and what route did you follow to qualify?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>I took the 2 to 4-year vocational route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<h3>What attracted you to a career as a Veterinary Nurse?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>I wanted to work with animals and the excellent renumeration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>\n<h3>What does your job as head nurse entail?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Smooth running of the practice and supporting the other nurses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>\n<h3>What is the most rewarding thing about being a Vet Nurse?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Nursing a very sick patient and seeing them go home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>\n<h3>What kind of attributes do you need to be a good Vet Nurse?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Sense of humour, organisation, team player, compassionate &amp; calm under pressure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>\n<h3>What advice would you give someone thinking about a career as a Vet Nurse?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s not just cuddling puppies \u2013 there is a lot of cleaning!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>\n<h3>What are the best things about working at Blythwood practice?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The best thing about working at Blythwood is my team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>\n<h3>What would be your career highlight so far?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the qualification to work abroad in Thailand with wild animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>\n<h3>Have you completed any additional training to support you in your role?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>No, but I keep up to date with continuing professional development (CPD) courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>\n<h3>What&#8217;s the next step in your career pathway?<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue to work with vets to provide the best care available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month, a whole month dedicated to raising awareness of the veterinary nursing profession and the vital role they play in animal care and treatment. Faye&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/vn-awareness-nurse-profile-faye-porter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blythwood.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}