DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT A REGISTERED VETERINARY TECHNICIAN OR ELIGABLE TO TEST TO BECOME AN RVT.

This position requires full-time availability for a minimum of one year. This is not a seasonal or summer position. Please provide three references with your resume submission.

Veterinary technicians must have a broad knowledge of animal science, medicine, and husbandry, including a basic knowledge of pharmacology and sufficient mathematical skills to ensure the administration of accurate drug and fluid doses. They must be able to successfully restrain animals, complete clinical laboratory tests, use multiple radiology techniques, administer and monitor animals under anesthesia, assist in surgery, and perform dental procedures. Veterinary assistants and technicians must also deliver compassionate nursing care.

Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalent. Must be over 18 years of age and have Veterinary Technician Certification (RVT) Must be able to work independently, and must be sufficiently self motivated to always work towards continuous quality improvement in the workplace, professionally and personally. Must be able to perform all essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made according to state and federal Americans with Disabilities Act regulations.

Desired Skills (not limited to):

Exam-Room Tasks

• Effectively restrain patients and ensure the safety of clients and personnel
• Clean and straighten exam rooms to prepare for incoming patients
• Obtain and record patient histories from clients
• Answer questions and educate clients about basic pet care and procedures
• Complete cursory overall examinations of patients and record your findings in the medical records
• Identify external parasites
• Perform suture removals, nail trims, staple removals, and drain removals
• Draw up vaccines and/or injections for administration

Nursing-Care Tasks

• Properly calculate medication dosages and volumes of liquids or tablets to be administered to patients
• Tube feed puppies & kittens along with approximating amounts to be fed, and tube size to be used
• Maintain IV catheters so fluids flow freely; flush and clean as needed.
• Monitor and maintain urinary-collection bags
• Administer IV, IM, SQ, and oral medications.
• Provide IV and SQ fluid therapy to patients
• Monitor, adjust, and maintain IV infusion pumps.
• Apply wound dressings and treatments. Maintain a clean site. Understand the applications for wet, dry, and wet-to-dry dressings.
• Apply bandages in a manner that ensures that the bandage protects and/or limits mobility and remains properly applied
• Assist DVM in the placement of splints
• Use cotton swabs to clean ears, bulb syringes to flush them, curettes to remove debris, and catheters to irrigate ear canals. Administer ear treatments without causing trauma, and teach clients how to complete this task
• Trim nails to the quick without causing bleeding
• Provide physical therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and laser therapy to patients
• Provide medical grooming, including mat removal
• Understand how to stop bleeding by using styptic pencils, powder or other means
• Deflea and detick patients
• Identify a patient’s level of pain and possible causes of pain, and understand the medications and methods used to control pain
• Assist kennel staff in medicating and treating boarders

Technical Tasks

General Technical Tasks

• Perform venipunctures using patients’ cephalic, saphenous, and jugular veins in a manner that minimizes trauma to patients and injury to veins
• Collect urine and fecal samples
• Perform needle aspirates and stain them
• Express anal sacs
• Properly implant microchips and test their functionality
• Assist with euthanasia procedures
• Set up and measure intraocular pressures using the tonopen
• Set up and perform schirmer tear test and fluorescein stain

Emergency-Care Tasks

• Provide basic life support, including CPR, airway maintenance, and oxygen therapy.
• Apply temporary bandages or splints
• Control bleeding using pressure bandages and tourniquets
• Provide fluid and pharmacologic therapy under veterinary supervision
• Provide cooling baths and/or enemas for heatstroke patients
• Assist DVM in placement of male feline urinary catheters and perform placement or manipulation as instructed

Surgical & AnastheticTasks

• Develop or locate and maintain equipment and instrument maintenance logs
• Understand aseptic principles and apply them to surgical patients, instruments, equipment, and rooms
• Prepare the surgery suite(s) for incoming patients.
• Prepare patients for surgery. Clip surgical fields with straight margins. Minimize tissue trauma. Properly scrub and prepare surgical fields. Maintain clean fields when moving patients.
• Properly position and align patients for surgery.
• Use circulating warm-water baths and/or hot water bottles to maintain the body temperatures of anesthetic and surgical patients.
• Suture cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues, gingiva and oral mucous membranes.
• Anticipate surgeons’ needs for assistance, instruments, and patient monitoring, and treatment
• Be sufficiently familiar with the anesthetic machines to operate, maintain, and repair them
• Monitor patients’ recoveries
• Resuscitate, stimulate, and care for puppies and kittens removed by cesarean section
• Keep controlled drugs secured to meet Drug Enforcement Agency and state board specifications.
• Update patient records with drugs administered, procedures performed, and patient status
• Recognize significant dental and gum disease, record it in patient records, and bring it to the attention of doctors
• Perform dental scaling and polishing procedures without traumatizing the gingiva
• Perform dental extractions under the direction of attending doctors

Imaging Tasks

• Know how to perform radiographic contrast studies
• Position patients to obtain diagnostic-quality radiographs of skeletal anatomy, internal organs, superficial lesions, or extremities
• Set up, perform, and transfer dental radiographs
• Start up, run, and send out CT images for interpretation
• Prepare patients for ultrasound.'

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Additional Compensation:

• Store Discounts
• Other forms

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply
• Only full-time employees eligible

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Other

Schedule:

• Weekends required
• Holidays required
• Day shift
• Night shift
• 10 hour shift
• Overnight shift

Work Remotely

• No

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $23.00 - $26.00 per hour

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Veterinary experience: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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