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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