Miss Niamh Clancy
Dip AVN (SA) DipHE CVN DipVN PGCert VetEd FHEA RVN
Anaesthesia RVN,Teaching Fellow in Veterinary Nursing
Department: Clinical Science and Services
Clinical Groups: Small Animal Anaesthesia
Niamh is a Senior Teaching Fellow for the School of Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College, she is also an anaesthesia nurse at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. She is the Co-Deputy Course Director for the Certiifcates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing and is the leader for the anaesthesia modules in both the undergraduate and post graduate nursing courses offered by the RVC.
Niamh graduated from University College Dublin in 2011 with a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing. Shortly after, she moved to the UK and worked in hospitals across London. She went on to obtain her Advanced Diploma in Veterinary Nursing in 2015 and a Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Education in 2018. She joined the RVC in 2013 as a theatre nurse at the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital. In 2016 she joined the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals as an anaesthesia nurse. As of September 2017 became a clinical educator in anaesthesia for the veterinary nursing school at the RVC. Following on from this she was given the opportunity to take a secondment from her clinical role to create the anaesthesia designation for the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing. Following the successful completion of this she took a role as a Teaching Fellow at the School for Veterinary Nursing and is the Deputy Co-Course Director for the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing, the module leader for the anaesthesia designation of the CertAVN, and module leader for the undergraduate anaesthesia module. In 2023, Niamh became the editor and contributor to The Veterinary Nurses Practical Guide to Anaesthesia, a textbook published through Wiley Blackwell.
Textbooks
Clancy, N (ed) (2023) The Veterinary Nurses' Practical Guide to Small Animal Anaesthesia. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford
Peer-reviewed journals
Clancy, N. (2025) Assessing and managing pain in cats and dogs. The Veterinary Nurse 16 (5) https://doi.org/10.12968/live.vetn.2025.0016
Lilley, V. & Clancy, N. (2025) Process audit of pain assessment recording in hospitalised canine ophthalmology patients. Veterinary Evidence 10 (2) https://doi.org/10.18849/ve.v10i2.705
Costa, A. & Clancy, N. (2025) Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome surgery on a dog with a mass in the laryngeal fold. VNJ 40 (3) 10.56496/WUUV6588
Mistry, K. & Clancy, N. (2025) Anaesthetic and nursing considerations for fracture repair in a brachycephalic patient: a case report. the Veterinary Nurse 16 (7) https://doi.org/10.12968/vetn.2025.0035
Clancy, N. (2023) Capnography for the Veterinary Nurse. The Veterinary Nurse 14 (5) https://doi.org/10.12968/vetn.2023.14.5.232
Viscasillas, J., Terrado, J., Marti-Scharfhausen, R., Castineiras, D., Esteve, V., Clancy, N. & Redondo, J. I. (2021) "A Modified approach for the ultrasound guided quadratus lumborum block in dogs: a cadaveric study". Animals 11 (10) 2945.
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2020) “Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 3: The Post-Anaesthetic Period” VNJ 35 (1) pp.16-18.
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2019) “ Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 1: The Pre-Anaesthetic Period”. VNJ 34(6) pp. 146-150.
Scales, C. & Clancy, N. (2019) “Brachycephalic Anaesthesia, Part 2: The Peri-Anaesthetic Period”. VNJ 34(10) pp.260-265.
Clancy. N. (2016) “Early Neutering in Cats with the Use of the Quad Anaesthetic Protocol” VNJ, 31 (3) pp. 76-78.
Clancy, N. & Hoy, C. (2016) “How to Manage a Diffuclt Airway” The Veterinary Nurse, 7 (8) pp. 478- 484.
Speaking at congresses
ISFM icat congress in 2025
BVNA congress in 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024 .
London Vet Show in 2019 and 2024
BSAVA congress in 2023 and BSAVA regions now in 2025
Vets Now ECC congress 2023
Niamh is currently the module leader in anaesthesia for the FdSc and BSc nursing courses here at the RVC. She is also the module leader for the anaesthesia pathway of the Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing. Niamh enjoys teaching practical anaesthesia skills and a systematic approach to complications that can arise when monitoring general anaesthesia.
She is also involved in the training of the BVetMed and veterinary nursing students when on clinical placement in the Queen Mother Hospital for animals.
Niamh has been an anaesthesia nurse at The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals since 2016.