Veterinary Nursing: Websites, Databases and Videos

Shanade Duggon is a veterinary nurse and teaches animal care and veterinary nursing at Greenmount College and Northern Regional College in Northern Ireland. She wanted to be a veterinary nurse since high school, and set out to gain all the qualifications required.

Take a look at a day in the life of an equine veterinary nurse. Follow Vicky as she takes you through her typical day and find out how you can get into a similar career. Part one of two. Look at other linked videos as well.

Vet nursing is a very rewarding and challenging career. It does however require a lot more attributes than just the love of animals.

This database platform allows you to select and search from a number of specific databases or to search all of them at once, including Academic Search Primer, Agricola, Green File, and many others. It also searches all Library holdings including books, journals and eBooks.

Makes better use of Google's capacity to locate information.

Use this facility to find useful images such as diagrams of animal physiology or anatomy. You can also filter by the licence or conditions of use for images e.g. Creative Commons or Public Domain licences.

Search engine from Hanover University specialising in locating veterinary information.

PubMed articles in the Veterinary Science field. You can do advanced searching as well.

This is a science search engine which uses a clustering methodology for presenting results.

A global science gateway to national and international scientific databases and portals. It uses a clustering and visual classification system.