Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Albuquerque, NM

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG)•Albuquerque, NM

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 patient and customer care and contributes to emergency outpatient and inpatient nursing care alongside licensed veterinary technicians. The role involves nursing tasks, patient monitoring and treatment, triage, medication administration, fluid therapy, sample collection, diagnostic testing, and assistance with sedation and anesthesia under LVT or DVM supervision. Where permitted by law, Veterinary Assistants may also perform advanced anesthesia, vascular access, diagnostic, and care-planning tasks. VEG offers guided growth pathways that can include veterinary technician credentialing, training, coordination of care, community outreach, and leadership.

Requirements

Be passionate and motivated, value learning, and be a team player who is honest and respectful.
Love working with animals and people.
Be comfortable adapting to new scenarios, willing to learn new techniques, and able to think outside the box.
Have strong interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
Be willing to pitch in wherever and whenever needed with a positive attitude.
Demonstrate the ability to accomplish assigned tasks across involved areas and know when to ask for assistance.
Display excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and the 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 knowledge of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to triage incoming patients.
Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand 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 ensure 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, including patients with varied risk levels.
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.