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RDVM Nursing Care

Vetcision Nursing Program

Vetcision is pleased to announce a new service offered for all general practices. As a Level One Trauma Center and 24-hour referral hospital, we are staffed around the clock by qualified nurses and veterinarians delivering the highest standard of care. We would like to invite you to take advantage of our facilities by sending your recovering and critical animals to our facility for nursing care when your hospital is closed. Our nurses will monitor and treat your patients with the care and compassion you provide at your own facility according to YOUR treatment directions; the patient will then return to your hospital the next morning. You can arrange for your clients to bring their pets to us at your closing time, and pick them up in the morning. We can also arrange transportation for your patient to be brought to Vetcision and returned to your hospital the next morning.

A post-operative patient ready to go home.

Common Conditions for Utilizing our Nursing Program

Post-operative surgery recovery
Seizure watch
Chronic renal failure rehydration
Toxicity monitoring and fluid flush-out
Glucose curves
Pain management, especially hard narcotics and CRI dosing
Mobile veterinarians

Referring Veterinarian's Responsibility

The referring doctor is in charge of the case, and must be available by phone for the entire duration of the patients stay at Vetcision. This is in case we need to contact the referring veterinarian if there are any changes in the pet’s condition and the treatment plan needs to be modified.

Vetcision exists as a resource for our referring veterinarians. Please contact us if you would like a Nursing Program Informational Brochure.

Pain Management

The comfort of patients is of the highest priority at Vetcision. We realize that it may be challenging to accurately diagnose and score pain in the individual animal. Our trained nurses are following the Colorado State University canine and feline pain scale guidelines as recommended by The International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM) which is based on behavioral/interactive and psychological observation, response to palpation and body tension. Pain Scores (0-4/4) will be obtained on patients at appropriate intervals according to your orders, or at least every 4 hour according to Vetcision’s standard procedures. Please provide complete analgesia orders including a rescue analgesia plan (e.g. repeated dosing orders if pain scores increase or titration guidance for CRI pain management). You will be called if the pet reaches a pain score of greater than 1/4 unless you provide a rescue analgesia plan.