Veterinary nurses

Louise has worked at the practice since May 2001. She qualified as a registered veterinary nurse in 2007 when she was made head nurse. Louise is also the practice assessor. Her interests include medical nursing and behaviour. She has many pets at home including three dogs, a cat, a horse and a chinchilla.

Lynne qualified from Langford – Bristol Vet School in 1994 and spent many years nursing in a variety of mixed and small animal practises in the home counties and Bristol. In 2004 she took a career break to bring up her son and in 2009 moved with her family to a small farm in Taunton where she set up a livery yard. In 2016 Lynne returned to veterinary nursing in a small animal practice in Taunton, where she gained her PSP (period of supervised practise) to re-join the Royal Collage of Veterinary Surgeons list of registered veterinary nurses. Lynne enjoys all aspects of nursing especially surgical and dermatology. She has two German Wirehaired Pointers with whom she works blood tracking, as well as two horses and three cats.

Jess has always enjoyed working with animals and joined us as an animal care assistant after studying the diploma in animal management for two years at Cannington College. Since then Jess has started and finished two years of nurse training and is now a fully qualified veterinary nurse. She also runs our puppy training courses which are held at the Norton Fitzwarren surgery. In her spare time Jess enjoys training her Spaniel, Truffle, in agility. She also helps out at a local Brownie unit where she is an adult leader.

Georgia loves working with animals which is why she studied animal management prior to becoming a Registered veterinary nurse in 2021. With studying animal management, it gave her the opportunity to do work experience at RSPCA’s West Hatch centre and a 2 week trip to South Africa where she got to live on the Shamwari Game Reserve. Georgia has been working in the veterinary sector since 2017 and has been with us since 2018. In her spare time she enjoys horse riding and walking her two spaniels Berry and Otto.

Jade has recently joined us as a veterinary care assistant providing invaluable support to all of our vets and nurses. She is currently studying at Bridgwater College to gain her VCA qualification and her ambition is to become a veterinary nurse. She hopes to gain the necessary practical and academic skills to do this here with us at Tone Vets. In her spare time she likes socialising with her friends, horse riding and walking her red boxer Bubbles.

Alana is a Yorkshire lass who moved to the area after relocation due to her husband’s job. She has just started college as a Student Nurse. At the age of 21 she ventured off to the Australian Outback to work on a 1.2million acre cattle station where she assisted with general property maintenance, hand-rearing orphaned calves, mustering on horseback/motorbike, branding, earmarking, de-horning, drafting, weaning and inoculating 10,000 cows. She has three cats at home- Otter, Boopy and Gingey and an EBT puppy called Magnus. She tends to her houseplant collection, listens to funk, soul and Motown, experiments with vegan cookery and enjoys a cross-stitching and sour beer!

Catherine is a Veterinary Nursing student at Bicton College in her third year of training. She is hoping to qualify in early 2022. She has an interest in medicine and wildlife nursing and plans to do courses to further her knowledge in these areas. In her spare time she likes to walk her dogs on the Blackdown hills.

Lia has completed her Level 2 Veterinary care assistant course in Taunton College in September 2020 and completed her work experience here at Tone Veterinary centre; now she has progressed onto joining the practice as a Patient Care Assistant. Lia has a passion with working with animals and has a favourite breed known as miniature Dachshund.

She has always been around animals since a young age and has worked on Gaming estates and veterinary practices to help her achieve and to gain knowledge to become a veterinary nurse in the future. Her interests are going to the gym, socialising with her friends and going on walks with her dog Storm.