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Evidence-based practice is an important aspect of veterinary nursing allowing nurses to make informed decisions and provide a better standard of care to patients and 
owners (Evidence-Based Practice in Veterinary Nursing), which associated with practice-based it’s ideal to identify problems and areas for improvements in the quality of 
veterinary care (Batt-Williams & Wade, 2022).
Under ideal conditions students would be able to practice all basic and advanced techniques in real context with clinical cases in which these procedures would be 
necessary. Everyone now that is not always possible often the time required to learn the technique is not compatible with clinical practice, the animal welfare, and the 
highest veterinary care.
The use off simulator use in veterinary education has increased significantly in recent years allowing consistent practical teaching without reliance on clinical cases, 
promoting the secure and practice techniques repeatedly without need for live animal use (Braid, 2022) and enhancing learn experiences in a controlled setting.
The commercial models and simulators are largely available and are a good investment for teaching, although they are expensive. The cost makes difficult to have all the 
models for all the techniques, or the number disponible its insufficient for practice in largest groups off students.
With this in mind, it is important to look for alternatives to practice some skills and instigate students to train these techniques, resorting to the reuse of very cheap and 
easily accessible materials.
Different examples of less expensive and simple solutions are presented to train suture, blood collection and catheter placement, eco guided cystocentesis, artificial 
insemination in small ruminants, and dystocia in small ruminants.
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 Veterinary nurse   Teaching veterinary nursing 
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Citation
Santos, Liliana; Valentim, Ramiro (2023). Examples of low-cost simulator models as a teaching instrument for veterinary nurse course. In XIX Montenegro international veterinary congress, XIII Montenegro international  veterinary nurse congress. Santa Maria da Feira
