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Registered attendees for the 8th Annual Veterinary Nursing Symposium filled the large lecture room in Lynn Hall for the day-long series of talks on a broad range of topics.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Returning as an in-person event at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine after last year\u2019s virtual program, the eighth annual Veterinary Nursing Symposium attracted 200 attendees from Indiana and several other states, including Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin.\u00a0The one-day program in Lynn\u00a0Hall on Sunday, March 27, covered a broad range of topics that were appealing to veterinary nurses working with both large and small animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual symposium is designed to provide veterinary nurses, as well as veterinary assistants and veterinary nursing students, with practical information they can use in clinical practice.\u00a0Participants were eligible for up to seven hours of continuing education (CE) units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a welcome and opening remarks by Dr. Chad Brown (PU DVM 2001), Purdue Veterinary Nursing Program director, the symposium offered attendees a choice between large and small animal tracks.\u00a0 Speakers included Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff as well as veterinary professionals from corporate sponsors Hills, Vetamac, and Elanco Animal Health. Small animal presentations covered such topics as hypothermia, urology, rehabilitation, and anesthesia. Topics addressed in the large animal sessions included ruminant and bovine medicine, equine dentistry, and diagnostic imaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lunchtime presentation, given by Christie Siminski, RVT, of Hill\u2019s Pet Nutrition, Inc., focused on recommendations for improved teamwork and communication in practice.\u00a0 Earlier in the day, Vetamac\u2019s Heidi Lescun, RVT, gave a talk on the form and function of the anesthetic machine.\u00a0The closing session about “Pets, Parks, and Parasites” was presented by Dr. Sarah Peton, of Elanco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, attendees heard talks on transfusion, cardiology, and pain management. In addition, the event gave participants the opportunity to develop their professional networks while interacting with one another and the vendors attending the symposium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides Dr. Brown, eight other Purdue Veterinary Medicine staff and faculty gave talks, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Tami Lind, BS, RVT, VTS (ECC)<\/strong>, emergency and critical care veterinary technician supervisor \u2013 \u201cFever vs. Hyperthermia\u201d<\/li>
  • Julie Commons, RVT, VTS (SAIM)<\/strong>, small animal nephrology\/urology technologist \u2013 \u201cSubcutaneous Ureteral Bypass (SUB) System in the Feline Patient\u201d<\/li>
  • Jessica Bowditch, RVT, CCRP, VTS (Physical Rehabilitation)<\/strong>, neurology and physical rehabilitation technician \u2013 \u201cStifle Your Excitement: Rehabilitation for the Orthopedic Patient\u201d<\/li>
  • Kyle Clever, RVT, CVT, CF, AAS<\/strong>, Equine Field Service technician \u2013 \u201cEquine Dentistry\u201d<\/li>
  • Christy DeYoung, BS, RVT, VTS-DI<\/strong>, diagnostic imaging technologist \u2013 \u201cDiagnostic Imaging\u201d<\/li>
  • Katie Mowery, BS, RVT, VTS (ECC)<\/strong>, emergency and critical care technologist \u2013 \u201cTransfusion Perfusion:\u00a0 An Overview of Blood Products\u201d<\/li>
  • Kimberly Sederquist, BS, RVT, VTS (Cardiology)<\/strong>, cardiology technologist \u2013 \u201cBradyarrhythmias Give Me Tachycardia\u201d<\/li>
  • Dr. Emily Curry<\/strong>, clinical assistant professor of mobile surgery and shelter medicine \u2013 \u201cTaking the Sting Out of Neutering: Purdue Priority 4 Paws Anesthetic and Pain Management Protocols\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The event was made possible by symposium sponsors Elanco, Hill\u2019s, Noah\u2019s Animal Hospital, Vetamac, and Woodland Veterinary Center. Special thanks to the event planning committee chaired by Clinical Skills Laboratory Manager Danielle Buchanan, RVT, and including Distance Learning Instructional Technologist Courtney Waxman, RVT, and Dr. Stephanie Inoue, lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Returning as an in-person event at the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine after last year\u2019s virtual program, the eighth annual Veterinary Nursing Symposium attracted 200 attendees from Indiana and several other states, including Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin.\u00a0The one-day program in Lynn\u00a0Hall on Sunday, March 27, covered a broad range of topics that were appealing to veterinary nurses working with both large and small animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,45,41,29,644],"tags":[105,26,56,432,1021],"class_list":["post-15217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-continuing-education","category-faculty-staff","category-our-people","category-veterinary-nursing","tag-ce","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-office-of-lifelong-learning","tag-veterinary-nursing-symposium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15230,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions\/15230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}