Diploma of Veterinary Nursing (Dental)

This Qualification is the industry standard for veterinary nurses who provide specialised and advanced veterinary dental nursing support within a clinic or hospital that performs advanced veterinary dentistry, or a specialist or referral veterinary dental clinic or hospital.

Candidates undertaking study for this Qualification require extensive vocational expertise and should expect that access through paid employment within a clinic or hospital that performs advanced veterinary dentistry, or a specialist or referral veterinary dental clinic or hospital, will be essential for meeting assessment requirements of some Units.

The Diploma of Veterinary Nursing (Dental) is extremely complex and requires access and exposure to all seven veterinary dentistry disciplines (periodontics, endodontics, restorative dentistry, oral surgery, prosthodontics, orthodontics and exotic animal dentistry). It also requires access to a veterinary clinic or hospital that performs advanced veterinary dentistry; a specialist veterinary dental clinic or hospital or a referral veterinary dental clinic or hospital; veterinarians who perform advanced dental procedures and are, at a minimum Members of the Veterinary Dental Chapter, Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (MACVS); patients and clients requiring veterinary dental oral radiographs and advanced dental procedures; and the equipment, instruments and resources required to perform all seven veterinary dentistry disciplines.