Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Alexandria, VA

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Alexandria, VA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

VEG is a rapidly growing emergency veterinary company with hospital locations across the United States. Our mission is to help people and their pets when they need it most, revolutionizing emergency medicine with a customer-first mentality and a true, employee-centric work environment. We aim to create a safe, secure, and valued experience for both our customers and our employees, striving to be the best place to work in the emergency veterinary field. We are looking for passionate, motivated, and team-oriented individuals who love working with animals and people, are comfortable adapting to new scenarios, and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Requirements

Passionate and motivated.
Value learning.
Team player.
Honest and respectful to peers.
Love working with animals and people.
Comfortable adapting to new scenarios.
Willing to learn new techniques.
Think outside the box.
Excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
Happy to pitch in wherever and whenever needed, with a positive attitude.
Demonstrate the ability to accomplish assigned tasks for all areas involved, knowing when to ask for assistance.
Display excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and team.

Responsibilities

Treat each patient and customer with the highest level of compassion and 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 and 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 licensed veterinary technicians 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 (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 (where permitted by law).