ADVANCED EQUINE HEALTH CARE

VET3AEH

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject, students deepen and apply clinically their underpinning equine health knowledge, by learning how to plan and provide for the nursing care needs of equine patients, and to work as an effective team with equine professionals. Students will examine legal and ethical impacts on the equine sector to help prepare them for ethically and legally challenging decisions and for ensuring that the advice they give to owners is appropriate. Students will integrate the husbandry requirements of horses with health and nursing knowledge to plan holistic individually tailored patient care. Students will also plan how to create and implement evidence based infection control protocols, including for serious zoonotic diseases. Finally, students will learn about equine reproduction and the knowledge and skills required for veterinary nurses to play an active role in assisting with equine reproductive care and management.

School: Life Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Dilhani Premaratna

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Students must be admitted into SBVN and have passed VET1EHS or VET2IAN or be admitted into SBATE and have passed VET1EHS

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: This subject has one field trip to a working equine veterinary clinic and equine property. Students must complete the Abiding agreement for Field Courses form prior to partaking in this field trip.

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Equine Medicine, Surgery and Reproduction

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Mair, T. Love, S. Schumacher, J. Smith, R. & Frazer, G.

Year: 2013

Edition/Volume: 2nd Edn

Publisher: Saunders-Elsevier

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Equine Veterinary Nursing

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prescribed

Author: Coumbe, K.

Year: 2012

Edition/Volume: 2nd edn

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Career Ready

Career-focused: Yes

Work-based learning: Yes

Self sourced or Uni sourced: Self Sourced
Uni Sourced

Entire subject or partial subject: Partial subject

Total hours/days required: 45 hours

Location of WBL activity (region): Flexible

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Critique the legal and ethical influences impacting current controversial areas within the equine sector
02. Plan and manage care plans for a range of equine life stages, health conditions and procedures
03. Develop protocols for infectious and zoonotic diseases
04. Examine the nursing care requirements of the pre, peri and post-operative surgical period of equine species
05. Research the role of equine industry professionals who care for mares and neonates
Subject not currently offered - Subject options not available.