Equine Vet Nursing...

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Lurky McLurker

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Are there any equine vet nurses here who would indulge me by telling me all about their job? :) I've been researching it for months and it is my absolute ideal career, and now I've just taken the first step of sending out emails to nearby equine hospitals begging for work experience. I'm really excited, and absolutely praying that one of them will accept me so I can feel like I'm properly on my way to my dream job! I've been reading everything I can find about "a day in the life of an EVN" and what the job involves and how knackering and badly paid it is :p but I'm always on the lookout for more views from people who know what I'm letting myself in for (if I ever actually manage to get on a course). So please, if you are an equine nurse, come and tell all! :D
 
Unless you get into a big hospital ie liphook, rossdales, Newmarket etc you will find a lot of nurses are not qualified. I worked as a nurse (not qualified) for a local equine practice, I enjoyed it but you don't get to do as much as a small animal nurse. My week would mostly consist of normal yard duties, clipping and scrubbing legs, trotting and lunging horses for vets and being at the kicking or rearing end for xrays! Not a lot different from working on a yard really.

I was disappointed and ended up going back to small animal to train. It's very hard to get a qualified nursing job with a sole equine base.

Pm me if you have any questions.
 
Thank you both for your replies. :) I would be quite happy just doing general yard duties, I have worked on yards since I was a child and I love it, so I don't mind doing that for years if I need to while I'm looking for a place as a qualified nurse (which I've heard are like hen's teeth, so I know it could take a looong time). I just love the thought of working with so many different horses of all shapes/sizes and ages, and seeing some (hopefully plenty!) of them go home happy and healthy. :)

ETA: Thank you Ella19 for your advice about training in small animal practice as well - I will bear that in mind and try to start from there. Embarrassingly, I am more nervous of small animals... I don't mind kicking, biting, barging horses, but ask me to pick up a nippy hamster and I will run for the hills! :o Definitely need to get over that ;)
 
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