10/05/2026
May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month. RVNs (Registered Veterinary Nurses) are qualified professionals in their own right and here at Cairngorm Vets they're the backbone of our team.
You'll be used to seeing Nicola and Abby out front, advising owners, dispensing medication, triaging emergencies and providing routine healthcare for pets. What you don't see is what happens through the back - testing lab specimens, collecting samples, administering fluids and treatments, scrubbing in to surgeries, monitoring anaesthetics, taking x-rays, carrying out dental scaling and polishing, managing things like catheters and feeding tubes and providing the high quality of care and attention needed to help animals through illness and recovery. They're helped by Lily, our VCA (Veterinary Care Assistant) student, who supports the nursing team and keeps our equipment, instruments and clinical areas clean and hygienic. All of them go home tired, often covered in unidentifiable and stinky stains, and with patients on their mind, sometimes only to get up again to assist with night-time surgery.
There is so much more to a veterinary nurse's role than our clients ever see, but it's the brilliant people in green who keep the wheels turning and the magic happening day after day. I'm proud to work with them 💚
Eilidh
