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Contents

Employment The importance of empowerment
Health matters Wellbeing chat : interview with horticultural therapist Julia Durbin
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Science shorts 12
Clinical The effects of canine obesity and how to combat weight gain in dogs
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Clinical Investigating the variation in injection dead-space discard volumes to improve the accuracy of controlled drug records
Clinical Triage of injured coastal and marine wildlife
Student Nursing the feline flea-anaemic patient
Student Revision : ticks and an introduction to canine babesiosis
Student Revision : the life cycle and treatment of fleas
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Professional development notes 58

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