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We’ve shared a version of this post since 2013 – each year we add more great ideas & resources 🙂
We all know how essential Vet Nurses are to your business and to the veterinary industry in general. And we all know what an awesome bunch of people they are!
Vet Nurse & Technician Day on Friday, 11th October, offers a fantastic opportunity to show your appreciation to all Vet Nurses.
Why not pay for all of your nurses/techs to be members of the Veterinary Nurses Council of Australia (VNCA)?
I’m a huge supporter and firmly believe that there are benefits of membership to practice owners, vet nurses & the industry.
Click here to visit the VNCA website for a great range of resources to help you celebrate Veterinary Nures & Technician Week 2024 and Vet Nurse Day 2024 including a poster, social media posts, etc.
Don’t forget to add #VetNurseDay and #VNTAW2024 tags to your posts!
After a career in HR working in a range of service industries and teaching at TAFE for several years, I then (somewhat accidentally) found myself in the veterinary industry and here I’ve stayed because I love the people and what they do. I created the Vetanswers Community to provide the support, resources and solutions to help our members build happy, successful, profitable businesses and careers.
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Hey Judy, haven’t done this yet, coz I thought it might be a bit corny – but am thinking of making up some red cardboard hearts with ribbon hooks. Have them on the front desk all week and people can “buy” one for a gold coin donation to the rescue org we support. They can leave it blank – for everyone – or write the name of their favourite nurse on it and we’ll do a presentation on Friday…..whaddayareckon?
I think it would be great if on vet nurse day each nurse were to receive a piece of positive feedback specific to them. Too often this gets overlooked and it’s easy to forget that we can do a great job!
Hi Lisa. I like your idea & I don’t think it’s corny at all! One suggestion though – maybe instead of asking clients to write their favourite nurse’s name, how about you ask them to write a nice message to all the nurses? Just thought it might get a bit tricky if some get more ‘hearts’ than others! Would love a photo to see all the hearts hanging up at then end of the week 🙂
Thanks Brook – that’s an excellent idea! I love the fact that it’s so simple anf yet you’re right – it can mean so very much. Hey Lisa – maybe you could mix the 2 ideas and as well as have ‘hearts’ from your clients you could also write a special message to each of your nurses on their own heart to be read out on Friday??? What do you think?
Yes Judy, we’ve refined the idea since yesterday – we dropped the donation idea and have made up cardboard cards that we will ask everyone to write on – general ones would be great, but if they put a specific nurse name on it we will deliver that to the nurse. So on Friday we will have a “presentation” where everyone will be given the cards about how awesome they are specifically. Hopefully clients will do heaps, and the team are doing them too so we can tell people about why they’re special – it’s easy to miss that in the hustle and bustle of a normal day. And I made up the tree yesterday – it doesn’t look corny at all so I’m quite excited now….
PS I hear your concern about some getting more – will use the general ones to “beef up” the pile for the part-timers that are not as well known – also have a nurse as a finalist at the Vet Nurse of the Year award – so will give her hers on Thursday to take with her – for good luck! Photos on our Belmont Vet Centre facebook page…..will keep them updated during the week. Smile, it’s gonna be a good one 🙂
Lisa
I think a dedicated lunch celebration (with no interruptions – where the vets answer the phones and run the show!), so the nurses can have a well-deserved break together, whilst enjoy some good food, followed by a chocolate cake for afternoon tea. And of course, lots of recognition this week, with both positives to our nursing staff, and discussion with our clients to raise awareness! VNCA poster and balloons are up and ready!
Hi Kate – I like your thinking! A nice relaxed lunch with no interruptions and time for a chat – sounds perfect! I hope those posters are all up around the practices too 🙂
The night before vet nurse day, some other vets and myself decorated our clinic, including a banner “Please wish our wonderful nurses a happy vet nurses day”. We baked a suprise breakfast, each nurse got a small gift and we placed post it notes around the clinic with specific thankyous. (such as on the mop bucket or the blood machine). Last year our nurses went out for a clinic funded lunch and the vets ran the clinic.
Hi Simone, that sounds like an awesome day. I love the post it notes ideas around the clinic – that’s a great idea! I’m sure your team loved their day 🙂
It should go beyond saying that veterinary nurses are functional partners in veterinary practice. On Veterinary Nursing Day, award to three best Veterinary Nurses be given to encourage youngsters to follow them.