Veterinary Technician - Intensive Care Unit
About The Position
At VCA Animal Specialty Group of Los Angeles , we are excited to add to our Intensive and Critical Care Team! Location: 4641 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039 We are adding to our specialty team, which means more referral patients and more patients undergoing procedures in need of the best care available. We need to add a Registered Veterinary Technician to help our team continue to provide the best possible patient care! At VCA Animal Specialty Group, we are proud to be the choice for referring veterinarians and pet owners in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. Our board-certified specialists, leading ER veterinarians, advanced technicians, and compassionate staff work together by applying their knowledge, experience, skills, and love of animals to the care of seriously ill and injured pets.
Requirements
- Veterinary experience: 3 years minimum in Emergency Medicine
- ICU experience: 1 year minimum working directly with critical patients
Responsibilities
- Be an advocate for the patients and provide top-quality medicine for highly critical patients on an hourly basis.
- Have outstanding time management and organizational skills to keep up with and maintain hourly treatments.
- Maintain reliability (pertaining to time and attendance) to ensure the patients have adequate care.
- Be a self-starter who can work independently with minimal guidance.
- Ability to triage and prioritize critical patients.
- Have excellent communication skills while always maintaining kindness, compassion, and respect.
- Placing and managing IVC and PICC lines.
- Drawing venous, arterial blood samples, and urine samples.
- Cystocentesis is via U/S guided only.
- Administering critical and life-saving fluids & medications, including boluses, CRIs, and blood products.
- Cross-matching, blood typing, and administering transfusions (pRBC, FFP, cryoprecipitate).
- Effectively and efficiently perform all aspects of CPR (recording medications, intubating, compressions, etc.).
- Inducing (if RVT), monitoring, and recovering stable and critical patients from anesthesia.
- Assisting with a vast array of emergency and critical treatments, diagnostics, and procedures.
- Manage feeding tubes, JP drains, and chest tubes.
- Manage sedated and comatose patients on short-term and long-term ventilators.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- pet care discounts
- paid vacation, holidays and sick days
- health and well-being programs that provide resources and training
- generous employee pet discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
