A recent mailing from BVNA tells me there's a CPD event coming up on Travelling Pets and Vector Borne Diseases which will of course be about tick control. The August 2012 edition of VN Times carries an article written by a RVN, who is also a K-SQP, and reviewed by a MRCVS, which is aimed at veterinary nurses on "Worming - sending reminders and maintaining compliance."

One of the quotes from the article is "Sending reminders to clients forms the basis of marketing in veterinary practice, with the main reason for clients to visit the practice being routine preventive care, such as worm and fleat treatments."

If we're targeting CPD at Registered Veterinary Nurses on worming and ectoparasite control, to me that emphasizes just how crazy it is that we have a quailfication like the RVN qualification that does not yet permit RVNs to prescribe a NFA-VPS medicine; if a RVN needs to prescribe either there has to be a practice SOP in place, or the RVN has to go off and get a SQP qualification as the author did.

A lot of people visiting their veterinary practice for advice on worming, or receiving reminders, will not have any idea at all what a K-SQP or even a SQP is. They'll probably have a pretty good idea what a veterinary nurse is.

It's crazy that we don't let RVNs prescribe NFA-VPS medicines. Is this "Continuing Professional Development?" In what way are we "Developing" the profession of veterinary nursing by holding them back in this way?