About Chloe

Chloe started her career in the animal care industry as a school-based trainee veterinary nurse at Greencross Willows in 2014. Born and raised in Ayr, she moved to Brisbane in 2018 to continue her veterinary nursing career. After itching to learn more and improve her clinical skills, she quickly left general practice to work in a busy multidisciplinary specialist veterinary hospital.

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As a veterinary nurse at Veterinary Specialist Services Carrara, Chloe gained experience nursing a large variety of cases while rotating through the departments of medicine, surgery and intensive care. She became very interested in canine rehabilitation while intensively nursing the large volume of hospitalised patients and seeing the positive effects that rehab had on them both physically and mentally.

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In 2022 Chloe moved to Townsville and continued work as a veterinary nurse at the James Cook University Vet Hospital, accepting the role of Senior Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) Nurse in February 2023. Here her focus continued to be always providing the absolute best patient care. In late 2023 after an increasing interest in the care of post-surgical and recumbent patients, Chloe enrolled in the highly regarded University of Tennesse’s Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner (CCRP) program.

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Outside of work Chloe enjoys spending time with her four dogs. Her three fluffy dogs train and compete in a variety of sports including obedience, tricks, scent work, agility and lure coursing. Through involvement in dog sports, she understands the importance of canine conditioning and fitness to help prevent injury. Having rehabbed one of her own dogs from a shoulder injury and later a traumatically dislocated hip, she also appreciates how devastating to owners injuries in their dogs can be.

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Ethos

Through working in a large and busy referral hospital, Chloe understands the importance of a team-based approach to ensure the best possible provision of veterinary care. Veterinary nurses and rehab practitioners play an important role in the veterinary care team however it will always be communicated to clients that they are unable to diagnose and unable to prescribe.

 

Therefore, work on compromised dogs will not be performed without the patient first being assessed and diagnosed by a veterinarian. Any work on compromised dogs will then only be performed in collaboration with and under the guidance of the treating veterinarian. This is to ensure the best outcome and welfare for the dog at all times.

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