1. Professional responsabilities, regulation and the ethics of veterinary nursing 2. Principles of health and safety 3. Anatomy and physiology 4. Genetics 5. Infection and immunity 6. Elementary microbiology 7. Elementary parasitolgy 8. Medicines : pharmacology, therapeutics and dispensing 9. Client communication and practice organisation 10. Animal handling, restraint and transport 11. Small animal behaviour and training 12. Maintaining animal acommodation 13. Nutrition and feeding 14. The nursing process, nursing models and care plans 15. Observation and assessment of patient 16. Essential patient care 17. Principles of general nursing 18. Diagnostic imaging 19. Laboratory diagnostic aids 20. Medical disorders of dogs and cats and their nursing 21. Small animal first aid and emergencies 22. Small animal fluid therapy 23. Anaesthesia and analgesia 24. Theatre practice 25. Small animal surgical nursing 26. Reproduction, obstetric and paediatric nursing 27. Dentistry