Veterinary nurses play a really important role in wildlife health.  Vet Nurse Fiona also helps to keep our hospital running like clockwork!

A good vet nurse is focused on the critical care of patients.  “When a vet is doing surgery for instance, I have to closely monitor the animal under anaesthetic – checking its heart rate and breathing and making sure it gets the right dose of anaesthetic. I have to really concentrate as breath sounds and heartbeats in some animals can be really hard to monitor. From the anaesthetic point of view - the patient and the vet really depend on me.”

When Fiona is not at work she likes to travel.  “I’ve just come back from a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia which was awesome.  I also checked out the wildlife there including some pretty cool water buffalo.”