Veterinary Nurses - How did you train / qualify / succeed? ....

[Fabforester]

Further to my last post I have decided that I am going to do whatever it takes to take a rather large step in my life and retrain, and work to become a Veterinary Nurse. I grew up always wanting to do this but after a significant riding injury as a teenager I steered away from this and went to Uni progressing in a PR / Events career. This has been great, but I still have the niggle that I've not achieved what Ive always wanted to do.
So, less waffle, basically, I am now married with lovely children and nervous about starting again so to speak, going back to study/train, and wondered if and how you have managed it. Can it be done at all part time / over more years / is the Foundation Degree the best option or the Advanced course, I'd be grateful to hear how you got into it and best ways forward. Work wise one day I would Love to specialise in equine recuperation, and am very happy to sacrifice any ideas of a whopping salary to be able to do this line of work. Im just nervous that it could be too much of a sacrifice with two children (4 and 6), can it all be juggled?
Thanks in advance....

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[2horsesnomoney]

Ok So Vet Nursing is a fab career and i cant give you much info as to teh training as it has changed a lot since i qualifies (10 years ago now) but i did NVQ route so worked in practice 4 days college for training 1 day per week the down side is finding a training practice which is hard and also just keep in mind you may have o work night shifts and weekends later in your training - is this ok with your family life? It is a VERY demanding job a day off is never a day off - patients and job comes first. And the wages are rubbish but we all do it for the love of our job. But it does become very testing and wearing after a number of years (imo anyway) you see very few older nurses and often we leave the proffession after say 5-10 years in practice to find a better work-life balance.