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FAB12 ADVANCED AWARD
An Advanced Award in Feline Friendly Nursing
Suggested level: Qualified VN

Written and tutored by members of FAB’s Feline Expert Panel, Behaviour Panel and COAPE.

OCN Accreditation - Advanced Award 18 credits. Click Here for details of accreditation.

Note that successful students automatically fulfil the qualification requirements for the CDP COAPE Diploma Course.

Essential Cattitude, understanding the feline client and compliance: By looking at how the cat has developed alongside man we can consider whether it is ‘domesticated’. Looking at the history and nature of man’s relationship with cats will help us understand how adaptable it really is to us. By looking at the stages of development we can understand the building blocks of cat personality. We will also explore how our lifestyle affects the cat’s behaviour. By understanding the process of feline communication, we can read cats better and respond more appropriately. Additionally, cat people are different to dog people and how well we understand the different levels of commitment and the intensity of the relationship between clients and their cats can help to improve communication and compliance in practice.

WellCat principles: When FAB developed its WellCat for life programme it rethought the lifestages of the cat, taking into account how the cat develops both physically and behaviourally and looking at the different ages and stages when body changes occur. The six lifestages bring a logical approach to preventive healthcare. At what stages are there additional risks for certain common diseases and how can the practice approach try to maximise opportunities to manage health?

Cat friendly practice principles: By understanding innate feline behaviour (unit 1) we can start to understand the stresses involved in bringing cats to the practice – both from the feline and human point of view. Again being able to recognise different levels of relationship will help dealing with different cats and owners. Incorporating many of the principles of FAB’s cat friendly practice it is possible to reduce stress and health risks and make a visit to the practices less fraught.

Behaviour problems: It is often thought that behaviour problems are more difficult to treat in cats than dogs, but various studies have shown similar rates of response to treatment. Once again an understanding of both health and normal cat behaviour is essential as there is an overlap between behaviour and illness and/or stress – cats don’t make it easy for us! Many owners are mistaken about the causes of their cat’s behaviour problems. Similarly a cat has not any idea of right or wrong or rules, merely undertaking strategies to cope with the situation.

Nutritional issues: The cat is also very specialised where nutrition is concerned, so an understanding of what a cat needs and how this changes throughout life can help to promote health and avoid problems such as obesity. Additionally, how nutrition can be used as a tool in treating disease is an important part of veterinary care. Understanding that nutrition is essential to recovery, different approaches to encouraging eating as well as feeding tubes and their uses will be covered.

Measurements and monitoring: Monitoring can take many forms - monitoring health for early disease recognition, monitoring pre and post anaesthetic, monitoring during recovery, diabetes treatment etc. The stress level of the cat may influence some of these tests and interpretation must take this into account. For some breeds blood typing is important and blood transfusions require special attention to both feline donor and recipient.

Correspondence.

Each Unit of the course notes is e-Mailed out to students as a separate e-Book. Students also have access to the FAB Student Resource Centre where additional support and course material are available online. The Resource Centre gives you access to a range of rich media content to complement the formal course notes, including video, sound, graphics and pictures, web links, and additional written content.

We supply you with a specially designed ‘template’ on-line to assist you in writing your coursework using your own computer and preferred word processing software. Your coursework is submitted to your tutor via the internet, marked and returned back to you the same way.

Nine months with two runs per year:
1: February 1st to October 31st.
2: September 1st to May 31st the following year.

OCN registration deposit £45 + Course fee £395.

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