Perdi Welsh
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Perdi is the Course Director for the Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing.
Biography
Perdi qualified from the Royal Veterinary College’s Beaumont Animals Hospital in 1991. She then moved to the RVCs Queen Mother Hospital where she worked as a general staff nurse whilst studying for the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing in Surgery which she gained in 1994. During the same year, she was appointed as a nursing tutor for the new nursing school at the RVC and gained her Certificate in Education in 1996. She worked for a short time in Northern Ireland, helping to set up a small animal practice with her husband. At this time, she also helped to establish and run the first block-release veterinary nursing course in Northern Ireland.
In 2001, Perdi returned to England and continued to work as a lecturer in veterinary nursing and Senior Examiner for the RCVS VN examinations gaining her BSc (Hons) degree in Veterinary Nursing in 2003.
In 2004, she returned to the RVC to help set up the first veterinary Clinical Skills Centre in the UK. Perdi then took up a two year fellowship as Veterinary Skills Developer for the LIVE (Lifelong Independent Veterinary Education) project at the RVC, working on the development and production of the BVetMed Day One Skills. In 2007, she became Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing, focussing on the set up of the new post qualification award for veterinary nurses; the on-line distance-learning Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing . Perdi is a Consultant Editor for The Veterinary Nurse, a monthly international peer-reviewed journal.
Teaching
Perdi's main teaching interests include clinical skills training for veterinary and veterinary nursing students, professional studies, veterinary nursing concepts and models and more recently, online teaching, learning and assessment.
Selected Publications
Welsh, P & Bayliss, S (2012) Whistle-blowing explained: to be or not to be a whistle-blower, that is the question. The Veterinary Nurse.3 (2).
Kinnison T, Lumbis R, Orpet H, Welsh P, Gregory S, Baillie S (2011) Piloting Interprofessional Education Interventions with Veterinary and Veterinary Nursing Students. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 38(3)
Welsh P & Orpet H (2011) Writing Patient Care Reports; Authors Guidelines for VN’s (part 2). The Veterinary Nurse 2(3)
Welsh P & Orpet H (2011) Writing Patient Care Reports; Authors Guidelines for VN’s (part 1). The Veterinary Nurse 2(2)
Orpet H & Welsh P (2011) Handbook of Veterinary Nursing. 2nd Ed. Blackwell Science, Oxford
Welsh, PJ, Jones LM, May SA, Nunn PR, Whittlestone KD, Pead MJ. (2009) Approaches to defining day-one competency: a framework for learning veterinary skills. Rev Sci Tech. 2009 Aug;28(2):771-7.
Welsh, P. 2006. Techniques in: M Cannon & M Forster-van Hijfte, eds. 2006. Feline Medicine, A Practical Guide for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians. Edinburgh: Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann. Ch 5.
Welsh, P. 2003. VNs and the Law: what would you do?. Veterinary Nursing Journal. July, pp 117-120.
Orpet, H and Welsh, P. 2002. Handbook of Veterinary Nursing. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
Welsh, P. 2000. Intensive Care Case Study. Veterinary Nursing Journal. July.
Welsh, P. 1994. The VN and the Hospitalised Patient. Veterinary Practice Nurse Journal. Dec 1994