Marketable Skills
VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY MARKETABLE SKILLS |
• Calculate, prepare, dispense, and administer medication to patients as well as identify normal and abnormal responses to medication. |
• Safely obtain subjective and objective data that will allow accurate evaluation of the patient. |
• Identify and explain appropriate and inappropriate dietary components for various life stages and therapeutic regimens (e.g. therapeutic foods). |
• Work with veterinarian to assess patients and determine appropriate anesthetic and pain management protocols, monitor patient status, vital signs and physical parameters. |
• Identify a patient’s dental health status and perform techniques, as prescribed by a veterinarian, appropriate to the species and its condition. |
• Prepare patients correctly for surgical procedures, utilize appropriate aseptic techniques, and administer appropriate peri-operative care to the patients. |
• Prepare, handle, and submit appropriate samples for diagnostic analysis. |
• Participate in team-based approach to veterinary medicine. |
• Apply appropriate communication skills and utilize proper medical terminology needed to communicate with other team members; relay important information to clients. |
• Describe the basic principles of animal research and understand the utilization of laboratory animals in animal research; have a working knowledge of federal, state, and local animal welfare regulations. |
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