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Unit of Study VTEC2001 - Medical Nursing for Veterinary Technologists 1 (2025)

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Unit description

This unit provides students with further exposure to animal assessment and recording medical data. Students will perform clinical examinations on domestic species and collect appropriate medical histories, learn to recognise signs of ill health and predict the appropriate diagnostic approach to achieve diagnosis. Students will also learn to formulate a management plan to care for sick and injured domestic animals.

Unit content

Module 1. Performing a client consultation and history taking
 
Module 2. Clinical examination
 
Module 3. Principles of medical nursing
 
Module 4. Presentation of ill health and diagnostic approaches
 
Module 5. Principles of patient management
 
Module 6. Formulating a patient management plan

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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate proficiency in gathering a medical history and accurately recording clinical examination findings in common domestic species

perform a physical examination on a range of domestic animal species in order to detect clinical signs of ill health

demonstrate proficiency in determining a management plan for caring and supporting animals affected by ill health

discuss the presentation of specific illness and the appropriate diagnostic approaches aimed to achieve diagnosis.