Relief ER/ICU Veterinary Technician or Veterinary Medical Assist
About The Position
Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital is looking for a highly motivated, highly skilled individual to join our relief team. We provide 24-hour emergency services with a specialty in referral surgery. We are looking for technicians and Veterinary Assistants who want to utilize their skills to the fullest potential in a fun and stimulating environment. We are currently seeking qualified technicians and Veterinary Medical Assistants for relief positions with our ER/ICU service. These roles function with a great deal of autonomy and responsibility; solid technical skills, sound judgment, excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to work both independently and with a team are required.
Requirements
- Graduation from high school or GED equivalent
- 2+ years professional veterinary experience, GP experience is accepted
Nice To Haves
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Technology, Biology, Animal Science or comparable experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to critically ill hospitalized patients in conjunction with specialty and emergency veterinarians
- Participate in nurse rounds
- Triage incoming patients presenting on emergency
- Assess patient stability and obtain patient vital signs
- Perform diagnostics and treatments of emergency and hospitalized patients
- Perform hourly patient assessment and monitoring
- Observe patients and recognize changes in status
- Place peripheral and central catheters
- Restrain patients for exams and treatments
- Set up and administer IV and SQ fluids
- Maintain urinary catheters
- Bandage removal and application
- Perform suture and drain removal
- Perform drug dose calculations for injectable medications and CRIs
- Administer injectable medications (IV, IM, SQ)
- Administer other medications (PO, OU, OD)
- Maintain isolation protocols for infectious patients
- Basic wound cleaning and care
- Administer injectable and inhalant anesthesia
- Monitor patients while under anesthesia and maintain a monitoring log
- Monitor patients during recovery from anesthesia
- Obtain samples for and perform in-house laboratory testing
- Assist in CPR
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
