Emergency Veterinary Assistant

Emergency Veterinary Assistant

Requirements

• Passionate and motivated
• Value learning and teamwork
• Honest and respectful to peers
• Comfortable adapting to new scenarios
• Willing to learn new techniques
• Excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group
• Excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and team

Responsibilities

• Treat each patient and customer with the highest level of compassion & care
• Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments
• Use understanding of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to accurately triage incoming patients
• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand potential adverse effects of medications
• Set-up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy
• Contribute as a team member to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care
• Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds to ensure continuity of care
• Be trained to properly perform all aspects of CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer
• Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including in-house & point-of-care tests and diagnostic imaging
• Assist in setting-up, performing, monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia with LVT or DVM supervision
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and maintaining urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes
• Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques
• Work alongside veterinary nurses as a vital member of the nursing care team
• Obtain additional training along guided growth pathways offering roles in addition to direct nursing care such as veterinary technician credentialing, trainer role, community outreach, and leadership
• Administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia with or without mechanical ventilation for patients with varied levels of risk
• Perform advanced vascular access techniques including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization
• Perform advanced diagnostic techniques including ultrasonography and paracentesis
• Participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.