Fourth Edition

(Formerly Jones's Animal Nursing)

The new edition of the classic core textbook, updated to reflect changes in the RCVS Veterinary Nursing syllabus

Covers the whole range of veterinary nursing in small animal practice, with all chapters revised or rewritten.

New content:

- Extensive integrated coverage of exotic and small mammal care
- Expanded clinical nutrition
- Seperate chapter on dentistry
- Coverage of alternate therapies
- Extended coverage of animal behaviour problems
- Communication
- Process and Models of veterinary nursing

New layout:

- Full colour illustrations
- Specially commissioned line drawings
- Tinted panels and tables highlight information

Contents:

- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
1 - Principles of Health and Safety
2 - Client Communication and Practice Organisation
3 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Veterinary Nursing Practice
4a - Canine and Feline Anatomy and Physiology
4b - Anatomy and Physiology of Exotic Pets
5 - Genetics
6 - Infection and Immunity
7 - Elementary Microbiology
8 - Elementary Parasitology
9 - Medicines: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Dispensing
10 - Handling and Control of Small and Exotic Animals
11 - Animal Training and Behaviour
12 - Maintaining Animal Accommodation
13 - Observation and Assessment of the Patient
14 - Essential Patient Care
15 - General Nursing, The Nursing Process and Nursing Models
16 - Nutrition and Feeding
17 - Laboratory Diagnostic Aids
18 - First Aid and Emergencies
19 - Fluid Therapy and Shock
20 - Diagnostic Imaging
21 - Medical Disorders of Dogs and Cats and Their Nursing
22 - Anaesthesia and Analgesia
23 - Theatre Practice
24 - Surgical Nursing
25 - Reproduction, Obstetric and Paediatric Nursing
26 - Dentistry
- Appendices: Dog Breeds, Normal Parameters in Cats, Dogs and Exotic Pets, Conversion Tables
- Index