Harrie Phillips is one of Australia's most highly qualified veterinary nursing educators. She qualified in Australia and was also a UK registered veterinary nurse for many years. She has completed two Diplomas of Veterinary Nursing (Surgical and Emergency & Critical Care) and has worked in general practice, emergency and critical care, specialist centres and universities. Her main interest is surgical nursing, particularly neurosurgery and orthopaedics. She publishes articles in veterinary nursing publications, lectures at conferences on foundation skills and surgical nursing, and has volunteered as a veterinary nurse for Vets Beyond Borders in India and Te Are Manu in the Cook Islands.
Harrie founded the Australian College of Veterinary Nursing in 2010 and is its lead course developer and instructional designer. She holds a Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education and a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education focusing on simulation, and is trained in human hospital level sterilisation and infection control. She has previously sat on the Practice Guidance Committee for the Australian College of Infection Prevention & Control.
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