Veterinary Nurse's Pocket Formulary

Nurses and receptionists are frequently asked for detailed information on administration of products by clients. This pocket reference guide helps them to provide accurate answers. It also helps them to avoid searching through a range of compendiums and formularies aimed at veterinary surgeons or alternatively seeking out a vet to ask.

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Although there are two comprehensive formularies designed for veterinary surgeons, it is common to find nurses and receptionists being asked for detailed information on administration of products by clients. He or she will certainly be asked how to apply flea and tick products? How to use shampoos? How to instil ear and eye drops? Whether tablets can go in food or be crushed? If tablets will interfere with pre-existing treatments or whether they will cause vomiting or drowsiness? What flea preparations can be used in the young, old or pregnant animal? Frequently nurses are asked about tablets/doses in preference to 'bothering the vet' and this useful, pocket reference guide will help them to provide accurate answers confidently and quickly. Currently they are faced with either searching through a range of compendiums and formularies aimed at veterinary surgeons or alternatively seeking out a vet to ask. "The Veterinary Nurse's Pocket Formulary" will provide a readily accessible source of information that can be kept at hand behind the front counter, in the dispensary, in the nurses' clinic and, especially, in the uniform pocket.