So hello and welcome back to this Small Animal Clinical Podcast series brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Jassani.

Today on the podcast we're going to do something a little bit different.

And instead of focusing on the clinical problem, we're going to talk about veterinary nursing

and try and cover a number of general

issues around veterinary nursing. I'm glad to say that I've been joined for this by Haley Kahn.

Haley is an assistant lecturer in veterinary nursing here at the Royal Veterinary College.

So thanks very much for joining me today, Haley. Thank you very much

for having me. So look, I wanted to start by asking you if it's okay to give the listeners

like a short summary of your career so far. Obviously, our paths first crossed, I'm not going to say

how many years ago, because that'll make both of us look pretty old,

but quite a few years ago, when you were a surgery and a theatre nurse here at the QMH,

but quite a lot has happened since then.

And I think it would be great if we could give the listeners some more background about who you are

and who they are listening to just so that they can sort of put

into context what you have to say. So is that okay? Yeah, it's absolutely fine. So where I'm from

really. So I graduated some years ago, again, I'm not going to disclose my year of graduation.

1970. Very old. With a BSE in veterinary nursing.

It was quite early on in the degree program.

So it was a combined course at the time between the Royal Veterinary College and Middle Section University.

So I graduated some years ago.

I spent a few years in general practice

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