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Katherine E Kissick RVN (VN Council)
Biography
Kathy qualified as a RANA in 1983 and was lucky enough to teach animal care, veterinary nursing and equine nursing at all levels and eventually progressed into leadership and management as Head of Department for Animal Care, Veterinary Nursing, Equine and Farriery Science at Myerscough College. She lived on and ran the College Connemara Stud and kept and bred her own Connemara ponies. She holds a Master’s degree in education and used her research into blended learning courses to develop a range of undergraduate and post graduate blended learning courses for veterinary nurses.
She led and managed more than 500 students and 28 members of staff and was fortunate enough to project manage and ultimately manage a bespoke state of the art Veterinary nursing clinical and educational building.
She sat on RCVS Veterinary Nurse Council for 8 years and, in her capacity as Chair of VN Council, was honoured to be the first VN to sit on the RCVS Operational Board and be involved in the implementation of the Royal Charter, ensuring that Registered Veterinary Nurses are accepted as professionals. She sits at present on RCVS Veterinary Nurse Council, as an appointed member.
She was made an Honorary member of BEVA for her contribution to equine veterinary nursing training and awarded the Bruce–Vivash award and the RCVS VNC Golden Jubilee award for outstanding contributions to veterinary nursing.
Her passion has always been in ethics, advocacy, and the professional veterinary nurse along with community veterinary nursing and, on taking early retirement from teaching, she has gone back into clinical veterinary nursing in a practice in the Channel Islands where she locums and assists with the community veterinary nursing on the island. She also runs her own designer clothes and cycle hire business with her husband and daughter and is involved as a veterinary nursing consultant for a number of course providers and a new awarding organisation.
She lives on Alderney with her husband and two dogs, a rescue tortoise, and a rescue amazon grey parrot.