Ana Costa
Ana graduated as a Veterinary Nurse in 2012 in Portugal where she worked for five years in a small animal hospital. In 2015 she completed her Nurse Certificate in Physiotherapy and in 2017 decided to move to the UK to further improve her knowledge and veterinary nursing skills. After working at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital in Cambridge, Ana joined the RVC’s QMHA anaesthesia team in 2019 where she is been working since. Ana’s special interest in anaesthesia led her to obtain her Nurse Certificate in Anaesthesia in 2019 and her PgCert AVN in Analgesia and Anaesthesia qualification at the RVC in 2022. Ana is also part of the pain clinic and cardio thoracic anaesthesia teams. She was also a board member of the Portuguese Veterinary Nursing Association from 2020 to 2022. Ana has been an invited speaker for national and international conferences in the last years and she is the author of two chapters in The Veterinary Nurses’ Practical Guide to Small Animal Anaesthesia and have published a case report, with another one currently under review. Ana has a special interest in pain management, and environmental sustainability and she is passionate about teaching.
Ana Carina Costa PgCert AVN Anaesthesia and Analgesia, NCert Anaesthesia, NCert Physiotech, Anaesthesia RVN