VM 20100: Introduction To Veterinary Nursing

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Credit Hours: 1.50. A didactic course which presents the basic skills that will be used in all nursing courses and in the overall curriculum. The course will provide an introduction to the various opportunities within the veterinary healthcare profession as well as a general introduction to the attributes and traits of veterinary medical professionals. In addition, the course introduces medical math and terminology used in veterinary medicine. Students will complete exercises utilizing math concepts used for dosage calculations, conversions, proper notation, dispensing medications, fluid therapy calculations, and percent solutions. Students will use medical terminology including prefixes, roots, and suffixes of medical terms to complete exercises. This knowledge will be utilized in didactic courses and labs as well as in clinical rotations. Students will learn normal temperature, pulse and respiration values for various species. There will be both in-class and self-study components. This course combines content previously presented in VM 14000 and VM 25100.

Course VM 201 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.