Nurses

Welfare nurse (left): medication labels, treatments due and miscellaneous tasks. Processing nurse (right): vaccination, FIV and blood requests from shelter staff, plus microchip and UV tasks.

Type your initials in the box at the top of your column (Welfare or Processing) once for the day — they are put on everything you pick up or tick off, and are cleared the next day. Leave the page open: a banner (for example “3 new requests sent through”), a beep and a flashing tab tell you when something new arrives. The sound is on by default — browsers need one tap on the page first, and the button at the top mutes it.

On a request, Pick up puts your initials on it (press Release to hand it back to the pool). Use +1 as each animal is done, or All done. The coloured chip shows time left against the "needed within" time.

Medication labels: copy the label text, then mark it done (tick several and enter your initials once). Treatments due: tick each dose as you give it. Overdue doses are listed first.

Tasks a vet asked for or transferred from a case — bloods, ear swab, FIV test, flu cat needing IVFT and so on. Press Done when finished.

Press Send back to vet on the task (on FIV and blood requests as well as miscellaneous tasks). Then:

1. Write the result / comment, e.g. "FIV negative, FeLV negative" or "bloods run, printout attached to cage".
2. Choose Vet to: interpret results, upload results to ShelterMate, or other.
3. Choose Needed within: 2 hours, or 12–24 hours.
4. Press Send to vets.

The vets get it as a request on their board. A miscellaneous task is closed automatically; an FIV / blood request keeps its count, so keep ticking animals off as usual.

Head-count requests ("3 cats to FIV test") have no single animal, so the form asks you for the animal ID of the one you are sending back.

Flagged animals with a suspected condition (cat flu, kennel cough, diarrhoea, vomiting, eye, skin, wounds, other) are counted per space against its cages. It lets the team spot a cluster early and act on cleaning, isolation and vaccination. You help most by telling shelter staff or the vet when you notice several animals with the same signs in one space, and by making sure a condition is chosen when an animal is flagged.