05/10/2026
It’s Vet Nurse Appreciation Week!
And this week, we’re celebrating the incredible nurses who keep our clinic running and our patients cared for.
Vet nurses do A LOT.
They draw blood, take X-rays, run lab work, place IV catheters, administer medications, assist in surgery and monitor anaesthesia.
In human medicine, many of these skills are spread across different roles. In vet medicine, they can all be part of one nurse’s day.
But it’s not just the medical stuff.
Our nurses give the cuddles, calm the nervous patients, hold frightened paws and somehow convince a very unimpressed cat that they really don’t need to bite us.
They clean up the blood, vomit, wee and poo. They sit beside patients as they wake up from anaesthesia so they never feel alone.
They celebrate the wins, comfort worried owners and advocate for the patients who can’t tell us what’s wrong.
And sometimes, they experience the heartbreak too.
Vet nursing can be messy, exhausting, challenging and emotional but it is also incredibly rewarding too
So to our amazing 3 Stone Vets nurses and to vet nurses everywhere:
Thank you. Thank you for everything you do, every single day, for the animals in your care.
We appreciate you more than you know
