Veterinary Nursing project
This project reviews relevant veterinary nursing units of competency and qualifications to ensure they reflect the current occupational skill standards and industry needs.
This project addresses the following key themes:
- Improving assessment requirements of specific skills to meet the needs of industry
- Exploring prerequisite requirements
- Reviewing the duplication of units in qualifications
- Developing animal anatomy and physiology core units in the Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.
The review addresses:
- 6 qualifications
- 52 existing units of competency
- 1-12 new units of competency.
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Work Safely Around Animals (Infection Control) project
This project reviews five existing units of competency to ensure infection control outcomes reflect the needs of workers in the animal care and management industry.
A key focus is to define the skills and knowledge to minimise transfer of disease from animals to workers in this industry. The project will research and develop up to six new units of competency to address:
- Basic infection control for volunteers in wildlife rescue, dog walking businesses and puppy day care
- Infection control in remote indigenous communities that have community animals
- How to develop infection control protocols for a community organisation
- Infection control in veterinary clinics and practitioners
- Equine specific infection control covering diseases such as Q virus, Hendra virus, Psittacosis, Herpes and Strangles.
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