Care of Hospitalized and Boarding Patients
Dr. Rachel Abrams
Join Fear Free Practice Certification Manager Dr. Rachel Abrams for an overview of the path to practice certification and a discussion about preventing and alleviating FAS in your hospitalized and boarding patients.
Practice Certification Info: SOPs
The thought of crafting SOPs got you down? Never fear, help is here! This 6.5-minute webinar is your guide to understanding how to write an SOP, what needs to be included, and what doesn’t need to be included to meet the Fear Free Certified Practice Standards.
Fear Free Design Ideas
The built environment affects the mental and physical well being of people and animals. What can you in your Fear Free Certified hospital to further foster a low-stress and healthy environment? In this webinar we will give you tips and tools for implementing Fear Free design into your spaces.
Fear Free: Evolving to the Hospitalized, Emergent, and Sick Patient, sponsored by Zoetis
Dr. Tamara Grubb, PhD
In this webinar, board certified veterinary anesthesiologist Dr. Tamara Grubb, PhD, discusses the interconnectedness of pain with fear, anxiety, and stress, and examines therapeutic and diagnostic strategies for both. Topics covered include the relationship between FAS and pain, diagnosing and treating both pain and FAS, reducing FAS in the hospitalized patient, and FAS and pain in the emergency setting. The relationship of pain with fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) – a relationship that works both ways – is crucial for veterinary professionals who seek to treat their patients’ physical and emotional health. How can the veterinary professional best understand, diagnose, and treat both pain and FAS?
Case Management of Fear, Anxiety, Stress, and Pain, sponsored by Zoetis
Ralph C Harvey, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVAA, UTCVM
Pain adversely affects the fearful, anxious, and stressed patient. These clinical issues are tightly interrelated, and we best manage them together. In this webinar, Dr. Ralph C. Harvey, a specialist certified by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, presents clinical cases demonstrating effective management of this deleterious continuum so as to enhance favorable outcomes for patients, clients, veterinary personnel, and practices.
Vaccinations for the Mind: Positive Puppy Socialization
Monique Feyrecilde, CVT, VTS (Behavior)
Puppies should explore the world and the people with whom they share it. When clients bring home a puppy, they have a golden opportunity to protect their newest family member from fear and anxiety later in life. By making a positive puppy transition and socialization plan, owners can help puppies have a smooth and happy puppyhood, adolescence, and adulthood. In this Fear Free webinar, sponsored by Ceva, Monique Feyrecilde, CVT, VTS (Behavior) covers techniques, products, and client education to get puppies started off on the right paw; how early detection and intervention can help shy puppies blossom; and more. Sponsored by Ceva.
In this one-hour module, client service representatives will learn how to quickly assist pets entering with FAS, educate clients about Fear Free in person and on the phone, guide them in preparing their pets for future visits, provide resources and referrals, organize community outreach activities, and create protocols for the whole team to follow.
This module is open to all professionals that are already signed up for the certification program.
In this one-hour module, you will learn what natural functions scratching serves for cats; common owner responses to scratching and the problems associated with them; and the potential fallout from declawing cats. Most importantly, you’ll come away with several safe and effective alternative solutions to the problem of unwanted scratching, and a made-for-owners handout to help guide them in the right direction.
This module is open to all professionals that are already signed up for the certification program, and is RACE approved for 1 hours in the category of Scientific.
