Speaker bio page for Katherine Howie

After qualifying in 200 Kath continued to work in primary care practice before moving to referral practice and finally emergency and critical care achieving the VTS(ECC) in 2009 and then recertifying in 2014 and again in 2019. She is a tutor for the Vets Now certificate in emergency and critical care nursing and spends a lot of time mentoring and developing RVNS both in and outside of the workplace. Veterinary nurses are often the backbone of the profession and are ideally placed to monitor and recognise problems we encounter with anaesthetized patients