Examples of low-cost simulator models as a teaching instrument for veterinary nurse course

• Author(s): Santos, Liliana ; Valentim, Ramiro
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29188
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Veterinary nurse; Teaching veterinary nursing
• Document Type: Conference poster
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Biblioteca Digital do IPB

Description

Evidence-based practice is an important aspect of veterinary nursing allowing nurses to make informed decisions and provide a better standard of care to patients and owners (Evidence-Based Practice in Veterinary Nursing), which associated with practice-based it’s ideal to identify problems and areas for improvements in the quality of veterinary care (Batt-Williams & Wade, 2022). Under ideal conditions students would be able to practice all basic and advanced techniques in real context with clinical cases in which these procedures would be necessary. Everyone now that is not always possible often the time required to learn the technique is not compatible with clinical practice, the animal welfare, and the highest veterinary care. The use off simulator use in veterinary education has increased significantly in recent years allowing consistent practical teaching without reliance on clinical cases, promoting the secure and practice techniques repeatedly without need for live animal use (Braid, 2022) and enhancing learn experiences in a controlled setting. The commercial models and simulators are largely available and are a good investment for teaching, although they are expensive. The cost makes difficult to have all the models for all the techniques, or the number disponible its insufficient for practice in largest groups off students. With this in mind, it is important to look for alternatives to practice some skills and instigate students to train these techniques, resorting to the reuse of very cheap and easily accessible materials. Different examples of less expensive and simple solutions are presented to train suture, blood collection and catheter placement, eco guided cystocentesis, artificial insemination in small ruminants, and dystocia in small ruminants.