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Welcome to VSPN

The Veterinary Support Personnel Network is for veterinary support staff working with, for, or in the field of veterinary medicine, under the direction of a licensed veterinarian. Membership in VSPN is free. In order to have access to all of VSPN's community features including message boards, chats, and CE, you will need to register (click on the REGISTER button on the left side of this screen).

(General Public should utilize www.veterinarypartner.com, VIN/VSPN's public, veterinarian supervised website)

(Veterinarians should register at www.vin.com, the premier site for veterinarians)

REGISTERING for membership:
When you complete your registration application, your information will be reviewed. If you have not heard from us within 48 hours about the status of your application, please email Nanette@vspn.org

Thank you for helping us make VSPN the BEST online veterinary support staff site!

This week in VSPN:

Mark these interactive sessions on your calendar! To attend please go to the VSPN Chat/Rounds room (unless otherwise noted).

The World Clock - Time Zones - Click here to find out what time a session is in your neck of the world.

Friday, September 3, 2010 - Monday September 6, 2010
  NO ROUNDS, CHATS, or CLASSES due to holiday weekend

Friday, September 10, 2010; 9pm ET (USA)
  Student Chat: Welcome back students! Charlotte will be here for the return of the student chat. Come to meet your fellow students.

Friday, September 10, 2010; 10pm ET (USA)
  Friday Practice Management Chat: Julie will host Staff Reward and Recognition Ideas.

Thursday, September 16, 2010; 830pm ET
  How to Navigate VSPN: Jennifer will be at the helm to show you around VSPN.

Friday, September 17, 2010; 10pm ET (USA)
  Friday Open Chat: Open forum for all veterinary support staff.

Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs; Wondering about how to utilize this website? Click here!

FROM YOUR MESSAGE BOARDS
NAVTA has a new mailing address
Calculating red blood cell count
Tumor cells
Administering Orbax to exotics
Uroliths in 6 week old kitten
Feline heartworm
Olympic Cuff Safe
Tums to lessen tear stains
Logging controlled drugs called in to pharmacy
Cubex inventory system
Veterinarian contract renewal
Inventory experiment
Recovery mats
Konica SRX-101A tabletop developer
Orphan kitten - no colostrum
Senior diseases
Practice management course
Emergency/Critical Care ideas for book
Studying for AVTA exam

FROM THE VIN NEWS SERVICE
Propofol shortage hits veterinary medicine
     Message Board Discussion
Bills regulating pet health insurance, declaw near enactment
     Message Board Discussion
Veterinarians report mysterious link between dog food and hypercalcemia
     Message Board Discussion

ABSTRACT OF THE WEEK
Dog obesity: veterinary practices' and owners' opinions on cause and management.
Veterinary practices felt that 3% of cases could be attributed to dog specific factors and 97% to human specific factors such as diet, exercise, and owner attitudes. Management strategies included reducing food intake, reduced treat feeding, and changing diet before recommending more intensive options such as obesity clinics. Of the surveyed veterinary practices, 43% ran obesity clinics and 79% of those believed they were a valuable management tool.

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Insect Attractants and Traps and more...

BOOK REVIEWS OF THE WEEK
Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult, Clinical Companion: Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters VSPN Review by Elizabeth Warren!

RECENT HANDOUTS / ROUNDS HIGHLIGHTS:
VIN/VSPN Rounds: Keeping Staff Learning Alive in an Economic Downturn
Vaccine protocols and opinions rounds
Morbidity and mortality

VIN/VSPN CE courses available for registration:

For more information on Continual Education courses you can take online, please see the VIN/VSPN CE course listings at the top of the CE page.

Test this VSPN feature:

Want to test our beta site?

VSPN This Week

A special member benefit is the book reviews we have on texts available through the VIN Store as well as other venues. VSPN has been churning out reviews for several years but author and book review coordinator Oreta Samples has really gotten us moving this year with more than a review per week currently. Because of this great resource available to you to read reviews by colleagues on texts you are interested in, we are working on creating a search tool for the book reviews so you can find those texts you'd like to read about more easily. This should be unveiled in the near future. In the meantime, please click on the Book Review banner below Nanette's column on the main screen of VSPN to see all the texts reviewed so far!

Check the chat calendar for upcoming rounds and sessions! "So you want to be a writer" is making its return in mid September; you'll want to be sure to attend!

Welcome:
The Animal Doctor; Lake in the Hills, Illinois
University of Arkansas - Beebe Veterinary Technology Program in Beebe, Arkansas

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Sincerely,
Nanette Walker Smith
M.Ed., RVT, CVT, LVT
Nanette@VSPN.org
VSPN Content Director

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