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The Level 4 Certificate in Veterinary Medical Nursing is designed for those working with small animals. It explores veterinary nursing support for medical patients, nutritional support, and diagnostic procedures. Learners will study cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, and endocrine medical diseases and their management.
These are the units Central Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Cardiovascular and respiratory medical diseases and their management Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise the anatomy of the cardiovascular system
- Revise the physiology of the cardiovascular system
- Revise the anatomy of the respiratory system
- Revise the physiology of the respiratory system
- Understand the aetiology of cardiovascular medical conditions
- Understand the pathogenesis of cardiovascular medical conditions
- Understand potential treatments for cardiovascular medical conditions
- Understand the aetiology of respiratory medical conditions
- Understand the pathogenesis of respiratory medical conditions
- Understand potential treatments for respiratory medical conditions
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with cardiovascular medical conditions
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with respiratory medical conditions
Diagnostic procedures and the role of the RVN in the diagnosis of medical patients Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of radiography in veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
- Understand the role of ultrasonography in veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
- Understand the role of endoscopy in veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
- Analyse emerging imaging modalities in relation to veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
- Evaluate laboratory sampling techniques used to inform veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
- Evaluate laboratory tests used to inform veterinary diagnosis of medical conditions
Hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal medical diseases and their management Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Revise the anatomy of the hepatobiliary system.
- Understand the aetiology and pathogenesis of hepatobiliary medical conditions.
- Understand the potential treatments for hepatobiliary medical conditions.
- Understand the aetiology and pathogenesis of gastrointestinal medical conditions.
- Understand the potential treatments for gastrointestinal medical conditions.
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with hepatobiliary medical conditions.
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with gastrointestinal medical conditions.
Immunological and infectious medical diseases and their management Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise the components of the immune system
- Understand the aetiology of immunological medical conditions
- Understand the pathogenesis of immunological medical conditions
- Understand potential treatments for immunological medical conditions
- Understand the aetiology of infectious medical diseases
- Understand the pathogenesis of infectious medical diseases
- Understand potential treatments for infectious medical diseases
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with immunological diseases
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with infectious diseases
Nursing of haematological patient and transfusion medicine Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aetiology and pathogenesis of haematological diseases and conditions.
- Understand the nursing care required for patients with haematological diseases and conditions.
- Understand the potential treatments for haematological diseases and conditions.
- Evaluate the use of blood products in veterinary nursing.
Nursing the oncology patient Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise how cancer develops
- Revise the behaviour of cancer cells
- Detail common cancers in dogs and their effects
- Detail common cancers in cats and their effects
- Evaluate nursing support for oncology patients
- Evaluate common treatments for oncology patients
- Understand palliative care discussions relating to oncology patients
Nutritional Support for the medical veterinary patient Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise the building blocks of good nutrition
- Analyse ways to ensure animals obtain adequate nutrition
- Explain how to complete nutritional assessment for inpatient and home care
- Complete nutritional calculations
- Explain what pet food labels mean
Urinary and endocrine medical diseases and their management Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Revise the anatomy of the urinary tract
- Revise the anatomy of the common endocrine glands
- Understand the aetiology of urinary medical conditions
- Understand the pathogenesis of urinary medical conditions
- Understand potential treatments for urinary medical conditions
- Understand the aetiology of endocrine medical conditions
- Understand the pathogenesis of endocrine medical conditions
- Understand potential treatments for endocrine medical conditions
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with urinary medical conditions
- Detail the nursing support requirements for patients with endocrine medical conditions
Veterinary nursing support for medical patient Real unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate effective monitoring methods for inpatients
- Explain how to plan patient care using holistic nursing and evidence-based nursing practice
- Outline the legislation that impacts the care nurses can give to inpatients
- Differentiate between inpatient care and outpatient care
- Explain the importance of communication with owners in ongoing care
- Explain the principles of infection control and hospital acquired infections
- Describe the management of cannulae, tubes, drains and infusion devices
- Describe the management of recumbent patients
- Explain physiotherapy and rehabilitation techniques and therapies for recumbent patients
- Explain fluid balance and infusion therapy
- Analyse pain management assessment
- Describe how pain is treated in medical patients
- Explain the principles of basic and advanced life support
- Demonstrate effective teamwork and communication in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) situations
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The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Administer medication to veterinary patients
- Standard
Admit and discharge veterinary patients
- Standard
Assist qualified veterinary staff during medical procedures and diagnostic investigations
- Standard
Calculate and administer fluid therapy to veterinary patients
- Standard
Care for Veterinary In-Patients
- Standard
Conduct diagnostic imaging on veterinary patients and produce the results
- Standard
Prepare and maintain diagnostic imaging equipment and materials for use on veterinary patients
- Standard
Provide general nursing care to in-patients in a veterinary practice
- Standard
Provide immunotherapy
- Standard
Provide nursing care for veterinary patients in recovery
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Director, Medical Imaging R&D
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Central Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Cardiovascular and respiratory medical diseases and their managementDiagnostic procedures and the role of the RVN in the diagnosis of medical patientsHepatobiliary and gastrointestinal medical diseases and their managementImmunological and infectious medical diseases and their managementNursing of haematological patient and transfusion medicineNursing the oncology patientNutritional Support for the medical veterinary patientUrinary and endocrine medical diseases and their management
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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“Cardiovascular and respiratory medical diseases and their management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Administer medication to veterinary patients
- Admit and discharge veterinary patients
- Assist qualified veterinary staff during medical procedures and diagnostic investigations
- Calculate and administer fluid therapy to veterinary patients
- Care for Veterinary In-Patients
- Conduct diagnostic imaging on veterinary patients and produce the results
- Prepare and maintain diagnostic imaging equipment and materials for use on veterinary patients
- Provide general nursing care to in-patients in a veterinary practice
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Cardiovascular and respiratory medical diseases and their management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will revise the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and explore the aetiology, pathogenesis, and treatment options for common medical conditions affecting these systems. The unit also covers detailed nursing support requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CQ Level 4 Certificate in Veterinary Medical Nursing - Small Animal
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Central Qualifications.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory medical diseases and their management
- Diagnostic procedures and the role of the RVN in the diagnosis of medical patients
- Hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal medical diseases and their management
- Immunological and infectious medical diseases and their management
- Nursing of haematological patient and transfusion medicine
- Nursing the oncology patient
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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