MVCC-590A: Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

This course is a culmination of previous small animal nursing knowledge, skills, and clinical experience. The course will focus on basic emergency and critical care veterinary nursing theory and concepts of patient assessment, fluid pathophysiology, critical patient monitoring, CPR, and disease pathophysiology. The course will include emergency and critical care case studies to apply practical application of knowledge and skills learned, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. The course goal is to prepare students to respond to emergency and critical patient scenarios in all types of small animal veterinary practices.