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- Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate first aid and nursing care of Irish wildlife
- Apply the principles of evidence based veterinary nursing to search the literature and critically appraise a paper.
- Identify the basic principles of rehabilitation in companion animals
- Demonstrate competence in pharmaceutical calculations and identify strategies for error avoidance
- Apply anaesthesia knowledge to appropriately manage specific case scenarios
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Practical | 4 |
Specified Learning Activities | 40 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 136 |
Online Learning | 20 |
Total | 200 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Exam (In-person): The final exam contains multi-part short answer questions on clinical cases. There are 4 sections: wildlife nursing; physical therapy and rehabilitation; calculations and drug errors and anaesthesia. | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 70 |
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Assignment(Including Essay): Apply the principles of evidence based veterinary nursing to a) search the literature and b) critically appraise a given paper. | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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Repeat | Within Two Trimesters |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Professor Deirdre Campion | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Joei Walsh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |