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20min
35 Steps
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Discover how guidelines can help you in practice and learn how to create your own.
A guideline is a brief document with specific advice that can help veterinary staff make good decisions in practice through evidence-based information.
Guidelines do not replace clinical expertise or knowledge. Rather, guidelines should be used in conjunction with clinical expertise and knowledge to assist and improve the quality of care delivered.
Please click on “Expand all” at the Course Content section to see all the lessons contained in the modules.
Key Features
Create your own guidelines for use amongst the team
Adapt consensus guidelines to the specifics of your practice
Increase consistency of anything from reception telephone calls to high-level treatments
Generate an open culture within your team(s)
Course Content
Creating guidelines
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Creating practice guidelines
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Step 1: Decide what the guideline will address
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Step 2: Allocate team members to research and review the evidence
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Step 3: Hold a meeting to review and discuss the evidence
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Step 4: Once the team has come to an agreement, create a guideline draft
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Step 5: Provide the draft to the relevant team members for review
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Step 6: Once everyone has reviewed the guideline, release the final version
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Step 7: Set a date for implementation and a date for review
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Question
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Implementing guidelines
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Example reasons to develop guidelines
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Question
- Creating practice guidelines
- Step 1: Decide what the guideline will address
- Step 2: Allocate team members to research and review the evidence
- Step 3: Hold a meeting to review and discuss the evidence
- Step 4: Once the team has come to an agreement, create a guideline draft
- Step 5: Provide the draft to the relevant team members for review
- Step 6: Once everyone has reviewed the guideline, release the final version
- Step 7: Set a date for implementation and a date for review
- Question
- Implementing guidelines
- Example reasons to develop guidelines
- Question
