Laura Jones
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Replying to Lisa S. 29/09/2023 - 21:30
Hi Lisa,
Ahh yay a medicine convert! I may be biased but it really is the best (just ask Scott, he’ll agree). Looking forward to learning with you – let me know if you have any questions!
Laura xReplying to Nicola Scott 22/09/2023 - 18:55
Hi Nicola,
So great to be learning with you – I totally agree, there is so much more we can do to support these patients! Hopefully you’ll leave the course with some more tips and tricks you can use in your clinic to do that. Let me know if you have any questions!
Laura xReplying to Rebecca H. 22/09/2023 - 18:03
Hi Rebecca,
So pleased to have you here – there is such a great crossover between medicine and ECC so I am sure it will help your role! Let me know if you have any questions!
Laura xReplying to Jodie A. 18/09/2023 - 13:40
Hi Jodie,
So great to have you here – let me know if you have any questions!
Laura xReplying to Lynne Holcroft 18/09/2023 - 10:00
Hi Lynne,
So lovely to be learning with you – let me know if you have any questions!
Laura xHi everyone,
Welcome to this course! I’m so excited to be learning with you over the next few weeks.
I’m Laura, your tutor for this course – I’m an RVN based in the South of England. I’m currently the Senior Medicine RVN at The Ralph Referral Centre, and gained my VTS in Small Animal Medicine in 2019. I’m a huge medicine geek, and love all aspects – especially haematology, endocrinopathies and renal/urinary medicine.
Please let me know if you have any questions as we work through the lessons, or if you have any cases you’d like us to chat through.
Looking forward to chatting to you!
LauraHi everyone!
I’m Laura, and I’m one of the speakers on this course – you’ll see me on the ‘Tubes, Lines and Catheters’ lesson!
I’m an RVN based at The Ralph Referral Centre in Buckinghamshire. I’m currently the Senior Internal Medicine Nurse, and have previously led the ICU Nursing Team.
My background (and main passion) is medical nursing, and I became a Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in Internal Medicine in 2019. My main passion is ANY aspect of medicine, plus all the advanced practical skills that come with managing medical and intensive cases. I’m a big geek about placing tubes and lines, endoscopy, calculations, endocrine disease and about pretty much anything medical, to be honest!
I’m looking forward to learning with you all on the course, and hopefully passing on my love of medicine to you all!
Laura xHello!
FAB topic. So we actually do get the vast majority of our samples from PIVCs at the time of initial placement, so long as we’re happy that the sample has been easy to obtain. I personally really like this technique especially in patients at risk of thrombocytopenia (a LOT of my patients in medicine) or for neuro cases where we might be worried about increased ICP.
When we take from the IVC at time of initial placement, we do use 1ml syringes and take them a tube at a time to minimise clotting, excessive negative pressure on the syringe, etc, and get good results with this.
However we do not take samples from them after initial placement – we would use a PICC line if ongoing samples would be indicated, and collect from them via the push-pull method.
Interested to see what other people do!
LauraHi everyone!
I’m Laura and I’m one of the speakers on the course – my job is to (hopefully!) show you all of the possibilities nurse clinics bring – and that they don’t just have to be post-op checks or dental clinics! I’m really looking forward to chatting to you through the course, please feel free to post any questions here and I’ll do my best to help with your clinic queries!
When I’m not chatting about nurse clinics, I’m also a full-time RVN in practice, currently working in a referral hospital in the internal medicine team 🙂
Looking forward to chatting to you all soon!
Laura xHi everyone and welcome to the course!
I’m Laura Jones and you’ll hear me chatting (a lot…) about tubes, lines and drains in this course. I’m an RVN working in a private small animal referral clinic. I work in our internal medicine department and gained my small animal medicine VTS certification a few years ago. I really hope you enjoy the course as much as I enjoyed being part of it! Any questions at all, fire away either here or on the Q&A call. Looking forward to chatting to you all! Laura xThis is really interesting. We personally crossmatch (commercial kit) before all feline transfusions but do keep a small stock of pRBCs (2-3 units) so we aren’t as limited as we once were. We did have one case a few months ago which was incompatible with every unit we had (in the end we did an external crossmatch at the blood bank, and he was actually only compatible with 1 unit there) despite being the first transfusion, and all units type matched. Thankfully he began regenerating and didn’t require transfusion in the end.
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