11/10/2024
ITS VET NURSE DAY!
Friday the 11th of October we recognise and celebrate the vet nurses, technicians and support staff that create the back bone of any veterinary clinic.
And so today we wanna say a BIG shout out to the two amazing epic Vet Nurses that I get the joy of working with at the Doreen District Vets - Kirstie and Julia! I could rattle off some lame dribble about how amazing these two ladies are for what they do, but lets get to some honesty!
In Australia, our vet nurses are poorly paid, highly variable in skill and training and do not have a registration body. In fact ANYONE can label themself a vet nurse! Throughout my career I've worked with many many nurses and can say from the bottom of my heart these two are the greatest.
These two ladies do an often thankless job - they deal with all the emails, the phone calls, the text messages, the Facebook messages. They have to create a schedule around our working hours, deal with the logistics of us being a homeless vet clinic during this period of waiting for council and our building. They spend hours researching things for our clients, following up on cases and ensuring we can provide the best most efficient service for our tiny growing business. All of this and sometimes even late at night out of hours to ensure our clients feel heard!
To Kirstie and Julia - Thankyou! I certainly try to thankyou as often as i can (sometimes with plants and coffee) but it is never enough. So thankyou - thankyou - thankyou... :-)
