Veterinary Technician - Anesthesia
About The Position
BluePearl Pet Hospital is hiring an Anesthesia Veterinary Technician! Pay: $20.00 - $40.00 / hour This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our competency leveling system. Working here is not just a job but also a unique opportunity to challenge the status quo in veterinary medicine and develop every aspect of your potential to its limit. We believe in practicing both the science and the art of veterinary medicine in an environment that fosters out of the box thinking, collaboration, and communication among each other and the outside world and having fun while doing so. As an Anesthesia Veterinary Technician, you will: Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values. Utilize their ability to place peripheral intravenous catheter in cephalic vein. Performs physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort. Understands normal vital parameters and alerts doctor when abnormal. Able to set up intravenous fluids. Administers subcutaneous fluids. Can operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors. Able to disconnect and connect patient from intravenous fluids aseptically. Ability to monitor patient response to fluid therapy including signs of overload. Set up constant rate infusions (CRI). Calculates all medical math including advanced and CRI (mcg/mg, %/mg, etc). Induce, monitor and recover anesthesia Set up for MRI and CT procedures. Discharge and intake surgery patients to and from the hospital, including basic client education. Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values Perform call backs and refill medications Client education, gathering histories and communicating that to the clinician Perform physical exam; accurately count heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort. Understand normal vital parameters Comfortable with IVC placement and venipuncture Operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors. Restrain patients during consults and during diagnostics
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to stable patients according to hospital standards of care and core values
- Utilize their ability to place peripheral intravenous catheter in cephalic vein.
- Performs physical exam; accurately counts heart, pulse rate, capillary refill time, mucous membranes, temperature, respiratory rate and effort.
- Understands normal vital parameters and alerts doctor when abnormal.
- Able to set up intravenous fluids.
- Administers subcutaneous fluids.
- Can operate all brands of intravenous fluid pumps and can troubleshoot errors.
- Able to disconnect and connect patient from intravenous fluids aseptically.
- Ability to monitor patient response to fluid therapy including signs of overload.
- Set up constant rate infusions (CRI).
- Calculates all medical math including advanced and CRI (mcg/mg, %/mg, etc).
- Induce, monitor and recover anesthesia
- Set up for MRI and CT procedures.
- Discharge and intake surgery patients to and from the hospital, including basic client education.
- Perform call backs and refill medications
- Client education, gathering histories and communicating that to the clinician
- Comfortable with IVC placement and venipuncture
- Restrain patients during consults and during diagnostics
Benefits
- Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
- Our associates are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience.
- We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops.
- As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in their career.
- We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
- Parental leave benefits
- Flexible work schedules
- 401k and retirement planning
- Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans
- A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
