b'PROFILEALISON DEVONSHIREAn experienced RVN with a career spanning more than two decades, Alison has navigated leadership, ethics, and advanced clinical practice, always guided by a strong pull back to hands-on patient care. From head nurse and ethical review work to specialising in anaesthesia and analgesia, her career decisions have been driven by curiosity, integrity, and a determination to stay close to the clinical work she finds most fulfilling.Please give a brief summary of your career path so farfeel free to share what motivated your career decisions:I became an RVN in 2001 and worked as head Vet Nurse at a busy small animal hospital in Suffolk for 20 years. During this time, I completed the RVC graduate diploma in advanced nursing. I had always enjoyed anaesthesia nursing and was given the chance to spend some time shadowing a human anaesthetist at a private hospital. Around this time, I was selected to be the first RVN member of the newly formed RCVS Ethical review panel. I found that I was missing the clinical side of nursing so I took an opportunity to work as lead anaesthesia and which I graduated earlier this year. I am ophthalmology nurse in a firstparticularly interested in brachycephalic opinion and referral practice anaesthesia nursing and the challenges 5 years ago. that come with this.What is it about your work that enthuses Being part of this panel was interestingyou and brings you satisfaction? and allowed me to explore the ethicalI get satisfaction from supporting issues surrounding research in ourdebilitated patients undergoing profession. My head nurse role evolvedanaesthesia. Cases that are marked into a predominantly office-based roleas potentially having a challenging as the company grew and inevitably soldanaesthetic are those that particularly to a large corporate organisation. I foundinterest me. There is so much that I was missing the clinical side oftroubleshooting to do when working in nursing so I took an opportunity to workanaesthesia and we have to be flexible as lead anaesthesia and ophthalmologyin our approach to care when things can nurse in a first opinion and referralchange quite suddenly for our patients. practice 5 years ago. My practiceI would also add that there is a huge supports my passion for anaesthesiaamount of satisfaction in caring for and encouraged me to undertake ancataract surgery patients, particularly MSc in veterinary anaesthesia andwhen they are discharged and their analgesia via Edinburgh university, fromhappiness is evident when they have www.inspiredvet.co.uk25'