Welcome to the School of Veterinary Nursing
Careers that make things happen
Ask anyone in the animal related and veterinary industry and they will tell you about their strong sense of job satisfaction. Whether you are nursing a sick animal, providing proactive and preventative health-care to pet owners, providing emergency treatment, working in a zoo, TB testing cattle or working within a surgery or farm setting, these are careers which involve specialised skills and knowledge required on a day to day basis, with the most rewarding of results.
Strong links with industry
All Otago Polytechnic programmes are developed in close consultation with the animal-related industries, ensuring that the skills students learn are the skills they will actually need in the work-place setting.
What is more, many Otago Polytechnic staff work part-time in their industry, and/or are specialists in their field. The infusion of ideas from these practicing professionals ensures that the most up-to-date methods are taught.
A career focus
Every Otago Polytechnic programme is designed with a specific career-path in mind. This means that all of our programmes prepare students to enter the work-force fully trained, with the appropriate skills in relation to their chosen career path. The career focus works too - employment rates for our students are excellent.
Most Polytechnic programmes, including within the School of Veterinary Nursing, offer the opportunity for further study, allowing cross-crediting towards other animal related programmes or higher-level qualifications within the veterinary nursing or university field.
Hands-on applied education
Otago Polytechnic programmes provide the perfect mix of practical training and classroom-based theory work. Nowhere is this more evident than in the programmes offered within the School of Veterinary Nursing.