Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Dallas, TX

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

VEG is a rapidly growing emergency veterinary company focused on helping people and their pets when they need it most. The Emergency Veterinary Assistant provides compassionate support to patients and customers in an employee-centric, team-based emergency hospital. The role includes basic to intermediate nursing care, patient monitoring, treatments, triage, medication administration, fluid therapy, sample collection, diagnostic testing, and assistance with sedation and surgical anesthesia under licensed veterinary technician or veterinarian supervision. Assistants work alongside licensed veterinary technicians and contribute to outpatient and inpatient care, patient rounds, and continuity of care. Where permitted by law, assistants may also perform advanced anesthesia, vascular access, diagnostic, and care-planning tasks. VEG offers guided growth pathways that may include veterinary technician credentialing, training, coordination of care, community outreach, and leadership.

Requirements

Passion and motivation.
Value learning and working as a team; be honest and respectful toward peers.
Enjoy working with animals and people.
Adapt to new scenarios, be willing to learn new techniques, and think outside the box.
Have strong interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
Be willing to help wherever and whenever needed, with a positive attitude.
Be able to complete assigned tasks across areas of work and know when to ask for assistance.
Have excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and the team.

Responsibilities

Treat each patient and customer with compassion and care.
Perform basic to intermediate nursing care, patient monitoring, and treatments.
Triage incoming patients using knowledge of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters.
Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand their potential adverse effects.
Set up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy, including constant rate infusions and blood transfusion therapy.
Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care as a team member.
Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds to support continuity of care.
Train to perform all aspects of CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer.
Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests, including in-house and point-of-care tests and diagnostic imaging.
Assist with setting up, performing, and monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia under LVT or DVM supervision.
Place and maintain urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes.
Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques.
Work alongside licensed veterinary technicians as a member of the nursing care team.
Where permitted by law, administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia, with or without mechanical ventilation, for patients with varied levels of risk.
Where permitted by law, perform advanced vascular access techniques, including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization.
Where permitted by law, perform advanced diagnostic techniques, including ultrasonography and paracentesis.
Where permitted by law, participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.
Pursue additional training through guided growth pathways, which may include veterinary technician credentialing, training, coordination of care, community outreach, and leadership.