Talk:Paraveterinary worker

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Ok article but should really include more international options. There are vet nurses/techs in many countries besides the US. UK Veterinary Nursing is mentioned, but there's no redirect from Veterinary Nursing or Veterinary Nurse, and no other options are mentioned at all. The oath is possibly relevant, but only for US graduates. All in all I feel the article needs a thorough edit to include the millions of us living outside the US. I'd like to do it myself but I only know UK and Scandinavian options and I'm not skilled enough at formatting to do it really well. If someone would make the effort it would be helpful for anyone looking at options for education within this subject.KatjaKat 20:02, 14 November 2007 (UTC) "i want to be a vet all my life" says heather, a student at new caney 6th grade campus

Box
Why is there a block around the section "Job description" hiding most of the text and how do I get rid of it?


 * A blue box around a section is the result of a blank before text. Remove the blank, and the box goes away. --DThomsen8 (talk) 23:17, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Paraveterinary workers in North America → Talk:Paraveterinary workers – With two editors making moves simultaneously, this talk page became separated from its article. This talk page belongs at Talk:Paraveterinary workers, rather than this daughter article. If they could please be recombined OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 09:16, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Why they don't deserve the title of Nurses
Nurses are autonomous professionals who may work along side doctors or independently. Paraveternary workers (PVW for short) are required to under the supervision of a vet. They have take no official position on anything animal related such farming practices or cruelty laws and report to vets rather than other PVWs unlike nurses who answer only to senior nurses.

PVWs are subservient to the vets and therefore do as they're told, whether it's in the animals interest or not. Nurses are not required to follow doctors that aren't in the patient's interest, in fact they're legally required not to.

Nurses can and often do testify against doctors in lawsuits, disciplinary proceeding, and public consultations. I've never heard of a PVW testifying against a vet, ever.

PWVs will adondon an animal patient to save themselves or if ordered to by their vet employers. A nurse is never to abandon a patient. Doing so would likely mean license suspension.

Therefore, they ought stay titled as they are. The title of Nurses clearly isn't necessary or accurate.


 * OK, that may be your opinion, but it doesn't actually help the article any. Wikipedia does not express an opinion, only reports those facts (and occasionally opinion) expressed in reputable third party sources. Notwithstanding that, I think you may be misguided by a sinlge country view, whereas the article clearly shows that in some countries they can work autonomously. OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 07:31, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Removed "United States veterinary technician's oath"
There is no such thing as a United States veterinary technician's oath. I'm sure Midland College's vet tech program seeks to advertise the dedication and professionalism they seek to instill in their students. However, I question the value this box adds to the article, as there is in fact a nationwide Code of Ethics for veterinary technicians - but no oath. If we could put an infobox about the Code of Ethics, that would be useful. As it stands, this is misleading and borderline advertising. <> Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 07:55, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright so rather than deleting the infobox outright, so I've been looking at the Code of Ethics, there are a couple different ones I've found. Each college has their own which tend to be variants of the one here . I don't think we should be using a single college's code and label it the "United States Veterinary Technician Code of Ethics," as just like the oath there is no such thing. The closest thing to a national organization, the AVMA, has a "Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics", the most recent version is found here . I'm going to try to replace the content in the infobox with the Principles at the AVMA. <>Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 18:11, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ack, I ended up going with the Purdue/NAVTA Code of Ethics because the AVMA code referred only to veterinarians, not techs. I think the NAVTA Code is not only more recognizable for vet techs, but the NAVTA is more applicable to this article in general. I might not have formatted the source in the box correctly, and we might specify that this is an American code, perhaps by specifying NAVTA in the infobox title? But I'm content with it for now, and will take a break. <> Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 18:55, 30 July 2016 (UTC)