KatjaKat
Response to comments regarding Veterinary Technician
editKatjaKat, Thank you for your comments regarding the Veterinary Technician article. I have made substantial edits to it recently and it probably appears even more Americocentric than it once did. This is a work in progress for me. I have started working on a stub titled Veterinary Nurse on my own talk page. I initially wanted to separate out the two titles but I am still mulling this over and may still merge the two back together. As a fellow technician/nurse I would love to hear your ideas on this. I am afraid that if I don't separate the articles that the international perspective will get buried within the information on US & Canadian vet techs as I don't know that I can intelligently speak to credentialing outside North America. You could be a great resource for this. Looking forward to hearing from you.--Bajutsu (talk) 05:47, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry for slow reply, I usually forget to log in when I looks something up...
I don't see why you would want to separate the titles out into different articles. If you want my recommendation I'd say that the main article should be titled veterinary nurse/nursing with redirects for technicians. For example there are plenty of people who call themselves technicians and assistants in Norway but they don't have an authorization or an education. Veterinary nurse is more explanatory on an international level and in Scandinavia at least the titles are variants on translations of "animal nurse". As for info on accreditation in different countries it looks like you've done a great job. It's a mess internationally. Seems like everyone has their own ideas what a vet nurse is and what level education we should have. I have a degree from the UK but in Denmark it's high school level I think. And here it's a completely separate thing at the vet school.
To be perfectly honest I think you've done a great job, but I think you've added a lot of detail that isn't really needed in an encyclopedia entry as long as you add links. If I were you I'd try to trim it a bit and maybe split the Education & Credentialing into more sections. Maybe put the nurse/technician discussion into a separate section, and say that different states do things in different ways and add some links instead or writing it all out? You need to add links and references or no one will take it seriously. And please remove the oath, or at least mention that you guys need to take it to be accredited in the US. It's pretty lost and disconnected down there at the end and there's no explanation for it.
I suppose your problem is that there's no dedicated US wikipedia. The English one is the most widely used and has to be international which can be hard. If I edit the Norwegian version I'm pretty safe if I make it Norway-centric. Hehe.
--KatjaKat (talk) 20:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I agree that the oath seems a little out of place but it was already there when I started working on the article so I've left it in deference to the contributor.--Bajutsu (talk) 11:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
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