Bringing a New Cat Home

Description

Course Summary

This 85 minute online vet nurse CPD will examine the initial period of cats new to a household and a novel environment is often a ‘make or break’ situation. Yet even caring cat lovers can be remarkably ill informed and/or casual when introducing a new pet to their home. Clumsy or impatient introductions increase the chances that things will go wrong, and the likelihood of failure is increased further when the household already contains a cat or cats. Topics covered include:

the various factors that must be considered in such circumstances
how and where things can go wrong
how to avoid disappointments and problems
practical measures that can contribute to success

Changes in the physical and social environments to which a cat is exposed have the potential to at best unsettle him/her or, depending upon genetic inheritance, temperament and life experience, profoundly affect its welfare and its behaviour. The impact of change is usually lessened when a cat moves house with familiar people and perhaps with other pets to which it is bonded. Even then, how well and how quickly it settles will depend upon the understanding, skill and sensitivity with which the transition is managed. Helpful, well informed intervention from veterinary professionals ahead of a home move or the addition of another cat into any household can therefore make a significant difference to individual feline patients and possibly the difference between success and failure.

Course Tutor

Francesca Riccomini BSc (Hons), BVetMed, CCAB, MRCVS, DipAS (CABC) – Retired
Riccomini Behaviour Referrals – Retired

Course Length

The course is worth 85 minutes of CPD for UK delegates and 1.5 AVNAT points for Australian and New Zealand delegates

The course is provided with unlimited lifetime access for on-demand learning

Course Notes

Complimentary course notes to accompany this tutorial are included

Release date: Jul 2018

Speaker

Francesca Riccomini BSc (Hons), BVetMed, CCAB, MRCVS, DipAS (CABC) – Retired
Riccomini Behaviour Referrals – Retired

Francesca graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1974. During a long career in small animal practice her deepening interest in companion animal behaviour and its impact on welfare and the human-animal bond led to a Post-Graduate Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling from Southampton University in 2001. She then ran a behaviour referral service seeing cases referred by first opinion practices. An ASAB accredited Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist, member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC), and the Feline Advisory Bureau’s (FAB) Behaviour Expert Panel, she spoke and wrote behaviour related books and articles for a number of publications. Francesca’s particular interests included the welfare implications of pet owning for animals and their owners, feline behaviour and geriatric pets whatever their species. Francesca has now retired from the veterinary profession to concentrate on her passion for writing

Information

Upon purchase, the tutorial will be immediately available to view from ‘My Courses’ (along with your course notes, if available). Every eCPD tutorial now comes with lifelong access, so you can view the tutorial as may times as you like, with no time limits!

If you make any personal notes during the tutorial using ‘take notes’, these will be saved, along with your certificate and CPD record for permanent access in ‘My Courses’.

CPD Hours

This online course is worth 85 minutes of CPD.

A certificate will be available from the ‘My Courses’ section, for you to download and print, once you have completed the course. A permanent record of your total CPD hours will also be recorded in your account section.

AVNAT

Australia and New Zealand

The Australian Veterinary Nurse and Technician (AVNAT) Regulatory Council has allocated 1.5 AVNAT CPD points to this continuing education activity.

This course is also recognised by the New Zealand Veterinary Nursing Association (NZVNA) as providing 1.5 CPD points.

Levels

This course has been listed as ‘Introduction / Intermediate’ level

All of our courses are aimed at veterinary nurses in general practice, but everyone who works in the veterinary profession is very welcome to attend, whether you are a clinical receptionist, veterinary surgeon, student nurse or have been a qualified nurse for over 20 years!

The courses are not formally assessed for skill level, so the following CPD levels are just a rough guide to help you decide if a course may be more or less suitable:

Intermediate
– maybe most suitable for qualified nurses in general practice approaching a new topic or looking for a refresher course

Intermediate
– maybe most suitable for qualified nurses in general practice along with referral / specialist nurses looking for a refresher course

Advanced
– maybe most suitable for referral / specialist nurses and highly experienced qualified nurses in general practice

Pawprints

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Invoice My Practice

Invoice

Debit or credit card is the preferred payment method

Please ask your practice manager or accounts department to visit the website, register an account in their own name, and during checkout, complete the ‘delegate name’ and ‘delegate email’ sections with your personal details. We will then register you a personal account on your behalf, and transfer the course booking over to your new personal account. We will of course email you all the information you need to access this new account and your CPD course.

If you need an invoice and no other payment method is available to you, then please email [email protected] with all the following information:

Full name of delegate
Email address for delegate
Course(s) booking
Any discounts / promotions being redeemed
Practice name and address
Invoice name and address (if different)
Corporate group name (Linnaeus, IVC, Medivet, VetPartners etc) (if applicable)
Practice code (eg Vet4Pets practices)
Booking / invoice reference (if required)
Email address to send the invoice (practice manager, accounts department or head office – not your own email address please)

Please note the following:

Invoices must be requested a minimum of 4-6 weeks prior to a course starting, to allow time for the payment to be received
Delegates will not be allowed access to any course without prior payment
An invoice will be emailed to the contact provided and the course booking will be reserved for 7 days, whilst payment via debit / credit card or BACS is arranged
There will be an administration fee of £2.50 +VAT per invoice generated. You may book multiple delegates / multiple courses on a single invoice to the same practice

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