Wanganui Veterinary Services
Veterinary Nurse Training at Wanganui Vet Services Wanganui Veterinary Services has been providing education in conjunction with AgChallenge Ltd since 1995 and Veterinary Nursing training since 2000. AgChallenge is an NZQA registered and accredited 'Private Training Establishment' in Wanganui with a proven record in education in areas as diverse as agriculture, carpentry, and automotive. Together they teach and provide an NZQA accredited National Certificate in Animal Care (Level 2) and Veterinary Nursing (Level 5) This is the only unit standard based programme operating within a veterinary clinic. This provides the students with invaluable practical experience with ample opportunity to experience the "hands-on" approach to actual veterinary patients and their owners. Naturally with being taught in a mixed practice, students get to go out on farms with the large animals vets which certainly helps with employment opportunities for our graduates in rural and mixed practice clinics. The tutors are veterinarians, veterinary nurses or qualified experts in their field who all have relevant teaching qualifications as well as still working in the veterinary industry. Veterinary Nursing is now a well recognised and respected profession in New Zealand. There is an increasing need for qualified Veterinary Nurses in veterinary clinics and our graduates have also branched into other fields such as SPCA inspectors, Pet Shop Managers, Drug Dog Handlers, Nutritional Consultants for Food Companies, Veterinary Nursing overseas as well as furthering their education in the areas of Rural Animal Technicians,or the National Diploma in Veterinary Nursing. All our veterinay nursing graduates are qualified to work in NZVA (New Zealand Veterinary Association) "Best Practice" accredited clinics.
Course Content This course is full-time only and is delivered over a 36 week period between February and November. Students must be 18 years of age or more at the start of the course. Entry requirements include:
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It is a definite advantage to know what the job of a Veterinary Nurse entails and to have spent time in a veterinary clinic and seen a Veterinary Nurse at work. The Certificate is Unit-standard based comprising 37 Units and 163 credits making up the qualification and so this makes for a busy year. * Training to be a veterinary nurse at Wanganui Veterinary Services will see you gain the skills you will need in animal husbandry (from dogs to cats to rats, mice and even fish), animal handling and behaviour, ethics, communication, first aid, product selling and general retail, surgical assistance and anaesthesia, nursing hospitalised patients, radiography and sample collection, to name a few. The course also involves practical placements every Tuesday and Thursday morning. These placements include Boarding Kennels, SPCA, Turakina Bird Rescue, Pet Essentials, Large Animal call-outs with the vets. Small Animal Surgery, Heads Road Veterinary Clinic & Virginia Lake Aviary. Course Costs The fees for 2012 will be approx. $5365.00 per student including GST. There are other course related expenses for stationary, textbooks, overalls, labcoats, gumboots, stethoscope, travel expenses of approximately $600.00. Students must also spend one week of their holidays at another practice to gain further experience and this may incur some costs for travel, food and accomodation. The cost of this is approx. $600.00. All fees and expenses, however, qualify for student loans and allowances from WINZ. So if you want to contact us about veterinary nursing training then for more information either phone us on (06) 349 6195 or (06) 349 0155 or fill in the form below.
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