Personal profile
Overview
Suzannah is a Registered Equine Veterinary Nurse with over a decade of experience working in the veterinary industry. Suzannah has a keen interest in surgical nursing and prior to joining the Hartpury ‘VN Team’, in 2014, she was the Senior Equine Theatre Nurse at a mixed practice.
Research interests
Suzannah has an MA in Education and for her dissertation completed a qualitative research project focusing on the factors that motivate student veterinary nurses to make academic and career based decisions. Suzannah has recently published the findings of her MA research in an article titled ‘A Qualitative Study of Why Students Choose to Study Veterinary Nursing' in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.
Suzannah’s previous publication include, an article in the Veterinary Nurse, titled, ‘Don’t forget the foal: The nursing requirements of foals when the mare is the primary patient’, highlights the intensive nursing needs of young foals even when they are healthy. Her other publications include an article focussing on infection control protocols for equine neonatal nursing and a co-authored investigation of the efficacy of different surgical site preparation agents. At the, 2015, British Veterinary Nursing Association Congress Suzannah delivered a lecture on Common Traumatic Injuries of the Competition Horse.
Current teaching
Suzannah is the Programme Manager for the BSc (hons) Veterinary Nursing and BSc (hons) Equine Veterinary Nursing programmes. She teaches across a range of veterinary nursing modules, subjects include anaesthesia, surgical nursing and pharmacy management.
External positions and memberships
Advance HE Senior Fellowship, SFHEA
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - Registered Equine Veterinary Nurse, REVN
Education/Academic qualification
Education, MA , An exploration of the factors that motivate students, on a BSc (hons) Veterinary Nursing programme, to make academic and career based choices. , University of the West of England (UWE)
1 Sept 2019 → 1 Jun 2022
Award Date: 20 Jun 2022
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
- 8 Journal Article
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Care bundle development for neonatal foal nursing.
Harniman, S., 2 Jul 2025, In: UK Vet Equine. 9, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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A qualitative study of final year student veterinary nurses’ career plans and expectations.
Harniman, S., 26 Jun 2024, In: The Veterinary Nurse. 15, 5, p. 212-218 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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A qualitative study of why students choose to study veterinary nursing.
Harniman, S., 20 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. 51, 4, p. 522-527 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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RVN's perceptions of confidence levels of veterinary professionals when assessing pain in rabbits
Barton, A. & Harniman, S., 2 Sept 2024, In: The Veterinary Nurse. 15, 7, p. 270-274 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Don't forget the foal: the nursing requirements of hospitalised foals when the mare is the primary patient
Harniman, S., 2 Mar 2021, In: UK Vet Equine. 5, 2, p. 91-94 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Activities
- 3 Oral presentation at Conference
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Panel session: What Next? Disseminating Scholarship at Hartpury and beyond.
De Martin Silva, L. (Chair of Panel), Protheroe, L. (Panellist), Nattrass, G. (Panellist), Smith, B. (Panellist) & Harniman, S. (Panellist)
12 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation at Conference
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Final year student veterinary nurse’s future career plans: values, beliefs and anxieties
Harniman, S. (Speaker)
10 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation at Conference
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Common Traumatic Injuries of the Competition Horse
Harniman, S. (Speaker)
9 Oct 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation at Conference