Improve Patient Wellbeing - Quality of Life

Date and Time

Sunday 29 August 2021 | 9am - 4pm

Programme

Learning Outcomes

• Scope of practice of a veterinary physiotherapist and contemporary research findings for common conditions.
• Present the links between animal abuse and family violence in New Zealand.
• Build confidence dealing with anaesthesia and analgesia for avian patients.
• Importance of good quality of life in animals.
• The implications of occupational compassion fatigue and burnout in animal related occupations

How will this benefit your work

• Develop a better understanding of what a veterinary physiotherapist does and how physiotherapy can benefit patient care with common conditions.
• Increase the knowledge and confidence in responding in practice to cases of animal abuse where there are suspected links to family violence.
• Better understanding of how quality of life is based on a range of reasons than just making the difficult decisions such as the right time to end their pet’s life due to terminal illness.
• Provide information and recommendation for monitoring avian anaesthesia and successfully support anaesthetised patients.
• Become more conscious about compassion fatigue and burnout and how this affects work.

Registrations

Spaces are limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. To register go to https://forms.gle/AGf49yAjPpED5D4s7. Registrations close on the 18 August 2021.