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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Administers topical medications
- Understands and observes legal boundaries of veterinary health care team members
- Determines proper maintenance and quality control procedures necessary to ensure accurate results
- Applies established emergency protocols
- Monitors therapeutic responses
- Respects and protects the confidentiality of client and patient information
- Uses effective and appropriate humane restraint techniques to include efforts to reduce stress during handling for various animal species
- Uses therapeutic bathing, basic grooming, and dipping method for dogs or cats
- Removes casts
- Safely and effectively produces diagnostic radiographic and non-radiographic images
- Manages wound and abscess care
- Performs ocular diagnostic tests (including tonometry, fluorescein staining and Schirmer tear test)
- Assesses key nutritional factors in disease conditions
- Exercises professional judgment to minimize risks to personnel and patients during radiographic procedures to ensure safety
- Follows federal, state, and local animal welfare regulations
- Properly prepares, handles and submits appropriate samples for diagnostic analysis in order to ensure maximum accuracy of results
- Obtains a thorough patient history
- Applies an understanding of life stage energy and nutrient requirements of well animals (dog, cat, horse/pony/donkey/mule, cow) when working with patient
- Demonstrates understanding of care of orphan animals
- Assesses the patient's risk status and determines appropriate anesthetic and peri-anesthetic protocols to provide effective pain management and maximum anesthetic safety and effectiveness
- Prepares radiographic equipment, measures and positions animals using topographic landmarks
- Understands unique husbandry issues for each species (birds, reptiles, amphibians, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, and ferrets) and provide client education
- Develops and communicates hospital nutrition protocols
- Reads and follows veterinarian’s pharmacy orders
- Utilizes appropriate aseptic techniques to assist operative personnel in order to Provides maximum safety and benefit to the patient
- Maintains appropriate disposal protocols for hazardous materials
- Schedules appointments, admits, discharges and triages according to client, patient and facility needs
- Utilizes veterinary practice management software
- Chooses an appropriate radiographic technique to minimize the need for repeat exposures
- Recognizes accurate vs. erroneous results in order to provide maximum diagnostic benefit
- Understands and integrates all aspects of patient management for common surgical procedures in a variety of animal species
- Places intravenous catheters (cephalic*, saphenous*, jugular)
- Complies with all federal and state regulatory guidelines for drug purchase, storage, administration, withdrawal, dispensing, disposal, and inventory control (e.g., biologics and therapeutic agents, pesticides, and hazardous wastes)
- Administers enteral medications
- Selects, evaluates and adjusts equipment to ensure proper function and provide maximum benefit to ensure safety of the patient and staff
- Manages inventory control
- Collects diagnostic specimens for analysis (ex: urine, blood, feces, specimens for cytology)
- Recognizes and assesses body language and behaviors (including pain assessment scales) for various animal species
- Administers subcutaneous fluids
- Accurately performs appropriate calculations; use weights and measures correctly
- Produces the latent image
- Uses common animal identification methods
- Safely and effectively manages and maintains patients in all phases of anesthesia
- Interacts professionally with clients and fellow staff members
- Analyzes the final radiograph for quality in order to provide maximum diagnostic benefit
- Chooses and utilizes appropriate techniques and equipment to accurately and effectively monitors the patient's ongoing status before, during and after anesthesia to provide for adequate anesthesia, analgesia and a safe recovery
- Demonstrates understanding of breeding/reproduction techniques
- Properly handles packaging and storage of specimens for laboratory analysis to ensure safety of patients, clients, and staff
- Accurately records medical information
- Positions the patient appropriately to provide maximum convenience for the surgeon and maximum safety and benefit for the patient
- Demonstrates understanding of nursing care of newborns
- Relays drug information to clients (e.g., handling, storage, administration, side-effects, drug interactions, safety, reasons for use of drug)
- Maintains and operates anesthetic delivery and monitoring equipment
- Performs Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment (COHAT) (scaling and polishing) (manual and machine)
- Recognizes the safe and effective manner in which vaccines must be administered; recognize and explain common side effects
- Implements sanitation procedures for animal holding and housing areas
- Creates and maintains individual client records, vaccination certificates, and other appropriate forms
- Recognizes the legality of the veterinary-client-patient relationship
- Recognizes groups of drugs, their mechanisms, and clinically relevant side effects
- Recognizes roles of appropriate regulatory agencies
- Provides the appropriate instruments, supplies and environment to maintain asepsis during surgical procedures
- Safely and effectively administers drugs by common parenteral and enteral routes; explain appropriate routes and methods and when used
- Identifies substances that when ingested result in toxicity
- Performs microchip scanning and implantation
- Performs physical therapy
- Performs basic filing of medical records, radiographs, lab reports, etc.
- Properly prepares medications for dispensing, including performing accurate calculations
- Handles daily client-based financial transactions
- Determines appropriate methodology and carry out analytical procedures necessary to provide accurate and precise diagnostic information
- Complies with regulations governing prescription drugs versus over-the-counter drugs
- Creates and maintains all appropriate facility records and logs in compliance with regulatory guidelines (e.g., radiography, surgery, anesthesia, laboratory, controlled substance)
- Obtains objective patient data (temperature, heart rate, pulse, lungs, hydration status)
- Applies and removes bandages and splints
- Assess nutritional supplements and additives including benefits and potential toxicities
- Administers parenteral medications
- Establishes and maintain appropriate sanitation and infection control protocols for a veterinary facility, including patient and laboratory area
