This course focuses on small animal nursing knowledge, skills, and clinical experience. Focus will be on basic emergency and critical care veterinary nursing and concepts of patient assessment, fluid pathophysiology, critical patient monitoring, CPR, and disease pathophysiology. The course will emphasize emergency and critical concepts to apply practical application of knowledge and skills learned, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. The course goal is to prepare students to respond to emergency and critical patient scenarios in all types of small animal practices. Prerequisite VMT 414.