Learn Animal Health Care
Course Code: VAG100 | Nominal Duration: 100 hours
- To work with pets or other animals
- To better care for your own animals
- To expand your awareness of animal health
Student Comment
"I cannot praise the animal health care course highly enough. I have learned a great deal, far beyond my expectations." G. Kite, Animal Health Care VAG100
What's covered in this course?
There are 12 lessons in this course.
This course covers:
Lesson 1. Introduction to Animal Health Care
- Animal welfare and control
- Veterinary services
- Code of practice
- Transporting animals
Lesson 2. Common Health Problems in farm animals and pets
- Causes of ill health, injury, pains, conditions, nutritional problems
- Living organisms
- Parasites
- Family pets common conditions
- Wild animals common conditions
Lesson 3. Animal Behaviour
- Communication in dogs
- Scent
- Barking
- Body language
- Handling cats
- Bird language
- Types of behaviour
- Time and space orientation
- Territorial behaviour
- Aggression
- Horse psychology
Lesson 4. Signs of Ill Health
- Vital signs in the healthy animal
- Signs & symptoms of diseases
- Recognising ill health
- Diagnosis of diseases
- Taking smears and tissue samples
- Diagnosis and control of different types of diseases
Lesson 5. Veterinary Facilities
- First aid kits
- Record management
- Enclosure for animals
- Environmental requirements
Lesson 6. Safety Procedures
- Duty of care
- Lifting heavy weights
- Reducing back injury
- Protective equipment
- Dealing with chemicals
- Skin penetrating injuries
- Risk categories
- Separating animals
- Disposal of dead/infected tissues
- Dangerous non-animal wastes
- Storage and handling of medicines
- Handling larger animals
Lesson 7. Administration of Animal Health
- Animal insurance
- Quarantine
- Importing animals
- Managing a veterinary office
- Telephone usage
- Record keeping
- Filing information
Lesson 8. Animal First Aid
- Types of wounds
- Treating and cleaning wounds
- Granulating wounds
- Stitching a wound
- Bone and joint problems
- Poisoning
- Restraining animals during first aid
Lesson 9. Preventative Health Care
- Diet
- Insect control
- Avoid stressing livestock
- Vaccination
Lesson 10. Routine Health Treatments
- De-sexing
- Castration
- Vasectomy
- Spaying
- Tubal ligation
- Pregnancy and gestation periods
- Euthanasia
- Anaesthesia and analgesia
- Preparing an animal for surgery
- Sterilising equipment
Lesson 11. Health Problems in Domestic Pets
- Burns
- Urinary tract infections
- Shock
- Electrolytes
- Ticks
- Reptiles and fish
Lesson 12. Rehabilitation Care
- Animal nursing
- Planning a recovery
What you will learn!
- the scope of services offered by animal care services.
- common health problems in various animals.
- the natural behaviour of different types of domestic animals in different situations.
- common signs of ill health in a variety of animals.
- purposes of a range of facilities in a veterinary practice.
- safety procedures for a veterinary practice.
- a range of administrative tasks carried out in a veterinary practices.
- first aid procedures and treatments for different animals.
- requirements for maintaining good health in domestic animals.
- an understanding of routine treatments for healthy animals.
- broader awareness of health issues and treatments in domestic pets.
- skills in caring for animals prior to, during or after treatment.
This course involves reading and research, set tasks to apply and revisit your learning in varied contexts, then self-tests and the formal assignments followed by feedback from animal experts.
This course will enable you to:
- understand the scope of services offered by animal care services, including in veterinary practices.
- build foundation knowledge to support working on a farm, a wildlife park or a veterinary practice.
- confidently recognised and respond to signs of ill-health.
- develop procedures for safely dealing with animals in clinics or other care environments.
- explore preventative health care.
- analyse the effectiveness of rehabilitation.
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