Licensed Veterinary Technician - Specialty Float
The primary function of the Veterinary Technician in the Specialty Support Team is to provide exceptional care of both patients and clients by service as an extension of the veterinarian. Additionally, the Veterinary Technician - Anesthesia is expected to promote professional growth through education and learning opportunities. This position will report directly to the Support Team Manager.
Essential Functions
- Assist other departments when needed
- Create and discuss medical plans with clients
- Perform client discharges
- Maintain composure and critical thinking in high stress situations
- Train on assessing pain, providing adequate analgesia, and understand multimodal pain control
- Perform complicated mathematical calculations (including, but not limited to CRIs and dilutions)
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of common veterinary drugs, their uses, and side effects (potentially multiple species)
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of common veterinary diseases
- Clean and maintain specialty department and hospital
- Knowledge of basic animal husbandry
- Understand and ensure sterility
- Ability to set-up, assist, and cleanup for surgical procedures
- Assist with diagnostics including, but not limited to phlebotomy and cystocentesis
- Demonstrate proper animal restraint
- Recognize and report all abnormal diagnostic results to DVM
- Provide effective and clear communication to clients if applicable
- Document all client communication within AERCMN record keeping systems
- Provide support for client's medical decisions free from judgment
- Demonstrate compassion and empathy
- Patient triage
- Field incoming department calls
- Order prescriptions through AERCMN pharmacy and outside pharmacies
- Take down payment and final payment from client
- Schedule appointments for your department