This webinar, primarily aimed at veterinary nurses, explains how to prepare the recipient and blood product ready for a transfusion and how to monitor the recipient during the transfusion.

About the speaker

Helen Rooney BSc (Hons) CVN CertEd DipAVN (Medical) CertVNECC RVN; Training and Induction Manager, Pet Blood Bank UK

Helen qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1996 and joined the Pet Blood Bank team in 2019 after working as Head Nurse at the Vets Now Hospital in Manchester. Prior to this, Helen worked most of her career between Rutland House Referral Hospital, where she became the Senior Ward Nurse, and at Myerscough College, where she progressed to Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing, teaching on her favourite topics of transfusion medicine, medical nursing and emergency and critical care nursing. Helen still works one day each week for Vets Now in a Clinical Support role for the hospitals and is the Pet Blood Bank Training and Induction Manager the other four days.

CPD hours: 1

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