Laboratory Collection | Lab Guide + Lab Techniques Guide | Student Vet Nurse Revision Bundle | SVN Study Guides

✨ THE VETERINARY LABORATORY COLLECTION ✨

A complete physical revision bundle designed to make veterinary laboratory nursing feel clearer, more visual and much easier to revise.

This collection includes two complementary veterinary nursing guides:

1. Laboratory Guide — covering the knowledge and theory behind laboratory work
2. Laboratory Techniques Guide — breaking practical laboratory skills down into simple, illustrated step-by-step techniques

Together, they give you both the “why” and the “how” — ideal for student veterinary nurses preparing for college, placement and practical assessments.

🧪 WHAT’S INCLUDED?

LABORATORY GUIDE

The Laboratory Guide focuses on the knowledge behind veterinary laboratory work, including areas such as:

• Laboratory health + safety
• Laboratory equipment
• Sample collection + handling
• Sample preservation
• Blood sampling
• Blood tubes + anticoagulants
• Haematology
• Blood smears
• Microscopy
• Urinalysis
• Urine sediment
• Cells, crystals + casts
• Faecal samples + analysis
• Sample processing + interpretation

It also covers important principles such as accurate sampling, preparation, labelling, record keeping and safe sample handling. Lab

The guide explains common blood sample tubes and their uses, including EDTA for haematology, lithium heparin for biochemistry and citrate for clotting tests. Lab

Urinalysis content includes physical appearance, specific gravity, dipstick chemistry and microscopic examination. Lab

LABORATORY TECHNIQUES GUIDE

The Laboratory Techniques Guide focuses on practical, step-by-step procedures, with hand-drawn illustrations throughout.

Techniques include:

• Using a centrifuge
• Using a microscope
• Blood sample collection
• Preparing a blood smear
• Packed cell volume — PCV
• Using a Hawksley reader
• Measuring total solids
• Using a Vernier scale
• Urine dipstick testing
• Measuring urine specific gravity
• Preparing urine sediment
• Identifying crystals + casts
• Identifying cells + bacteria
• Skin scrapes
• Ear swabs
• Packaging + posting laboratory samples

The blood smear section takes you from sample preparation and slide technique through to staining, assessing smear quality and recognising common errors. Lab Techniques Lab Techniques

It also walks through practical urinalysis procedures such as dipstick testing, specific gravity measurement and urine sediment preparation. Lab Techniques Lab Techniques

✨ WHY BUY THE COLLECTION?

These guides are designed to work alongside each other.

The Laboratory Guide helps you understand it.
Learn the principles, terminology, sample types, equipment and laboratory findings.

The Laboratory Techniques Guide helps you do it.
Follow clear, visual steps for the practical techniques you may encounter during veterinary nursing training and placement.

Rather than buying two resources that repeat the same information, the collection gives you a more complete way to revise laboratory nursing.

Theory + practical skills in one bundle.

🔬 PERFECT FOR

• Student Veterinary Nurses
• Veterinary nursing college revision
• Placement preparation
• Practical skills revision
• OSCE preparation
• Visual learners
• Newly qualified RVNs looking for a refresher
• Building your veterinary nursing study library

📚 MADE FOR SIMPLE REVISION

Both guides use the familiar That Vet Nurse Life handwritten style, with concise notes, highlighted key information and illustrations to help break down topics that can otherwise feel overwhelming.

Keep them at your desk for revision, use them alongside your college notes or refer back to them when preparing for practical skills in placement.

📦 PRODUCT DETAILS

This listing includes TWO physical veterinary nursing guides:

🤍 Laboratory Guide
🤍 Laboratory Techniques Guide

Both guides are professionally printed and posted directly to you.

This is a physical product. No digital files are included.

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE

These resources are designed as educational revision aids and should be used alongside your college materials, practice protocols, manufacturer instructions and guidance from your clinical coach or veterinary team.