Jenny Evans

RVN

I emigrated from Toronto Canada in the early 1990’s. My first job in Uk was working for a family looking after their horses and teaching the children to ride. In 1996, after many years working and competing with horses, I decided to embark on a new career in veterinary nursing. I got a job in Bicester and attended Berkshire College of Agricultural, qualifying as an RVN in 1999. I continued to work in Bicester until I had my children. Trying to split myself in two with family commitments and my working hours just made it too hard to stay nursing so reluctantly I had to give up. While my boys were growing up I ran a business with my husband, doing all the administration and book keeping from home as well as working as a teaching assistant in primary school.

Fast forward many years and my children have both grown up so I decided it was time to return to the job I loved so much.

It was a daunting process returning to veterinary practice as I had forgotten so much and the veterinary industry has changed and progressed massively. When I trained in the 90’s xrays were processed using film and a darkroom and the idea of sending dogs and cats for an MRI scan was science fiction. It has been a huge learning curve but so incredibly rewarding. I enjoy all aspects of nursing, caring for hospitalised patients, surgery as well as doing clinic appointments.

My passions away from work are training my gundogs, long distance walking and spending time with my children and grandchildren. I really enjoy working my dogs at local shoots and seeing the dogs retrieving birds as they were bred to do and I’m currently planning on walking the West Highland Way next spring.