Pain Management in Small Animal Practice
Join us for this 3-week highly immersive course, and enhance your knowledge of pain perception, how different analgesics work, how to accurately monitor patients on analgesic therapy.
- Vet Nurse/Tech
- Starts November 12, 2024
- 3 Weeks
- 15 Race-Approved CPD Points
COURSE FEE
AUD 289
Training 5 or more people?
Enroll 5 or more members of your practice and avail a special discount on the course fee!
This course includes:
- Live Online Weekly Tutorials
- Access to Tutorial Recordings
- 15 Race-Approved CPD Points
- Protocols For Your Practice
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
Course Blurb:
Our knowledge and understanding of pain, and its adverse effects on patient health has expanded rapidly over many years. As veterinary nurses, having an understanding of pain perception, knowledge of how to recognise pain, and how to manage pain is crucial to our patients’ welfare and wellbeing. Join us for this highly immersive course, and enhance your knowledge of pain perception, how different analgesics work, how to accurately monitor patients on analgesic therapy. What’s more, you will also learn analgesic techniques for various diseases and procedures, including analgesia for the emergency and critically ill patient, orthopaedic patients and more. Full of cheat sheets, helpful infographics and monitoring charts, this course is not to be missed!
Course Outline:
The first week of the pain management course will look at how the sensation of pain arises, what pain does to our patient, and how our patients respond to pain. In addition, we will learn how to recognize pain, and how to more accurately assess and monitor pain using various pain scoring systems.
Australia and New Zealand
USA and Canada
Other Countries
Australia and New Zealand
Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
USA and Canada
Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Time: 03:30 EST
Time: 03:30 EST
Other Countries
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In the second week of the course, we will look at how the different analgesics work, and how we can use them to optimum benefit for our patients. We’ll also look at how to monitor the use and effectiveness of our analgesics, our legal obligations, and, importantly, how to manage toxicity due to analgesics! It’s an exciting week – as we’ll also cover a range of anaesthetic techniques, including intravenous analgesic infusions, epidurals, local anesthesia blocks, and management of chronic pain as well!
Australia and New Zealand
USA and Canada
Other Countries
Australia and New Zealand
Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
USA and Canada
Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Time: 03:30 EST
Time: 03:30 EST
Other Countries
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The final week of the pain management course covers analgesic techniques in specific diseases in both dogs and cats, including pregnancy, cesarean section, analgesia for geriatric and paediatric patients, chronic pain patients and much more!
Australia and New Zealand
USA and Canada
Other Countries
Australia and New Zealand
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
USA and Canada
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Time: 03:30 EST
Time: 03:30 EST
Other Countries
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Course Tutor
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
COURSE FEE
AUD 289
Training 5 or more people?
Enroll 5 or more members of your practice and avail a special discount on the course fee!
Course Reviews
"I have found the course very interesting, have learnt an enormous amount and have thoroughly enjoyed it."
"Thanks for a brilliant course… so informative, well-written notes and your enthusiasm for teaching really helps the learning process."
"Thank you so much! The course has been amazing. I have learnt so much and am applying it at work pretty much every day!"