City: glendale
State: Wisconsin
Hospital Name: Lakeside Animal Hospital
Job Type: Veterinary Technician
Description & Requirements
The Veterinary Technicians assists the veterinarian with office visits and exams, and helps maintain the hospital facility, keeping it neat and clean and if certified, monitoring anesthesia.
Job Requirements/ Skills/ Physical Demands
An employee in this position must have a sense of caring for animals, be able to lift approximately 50 pounds.
Essential Functions
· Provide compassionate care for pets
· Restrain pets for veterinarians
· Assist in setting up and taking of x-rays
· Monitor and collect urine and fecal samples as needed
· Monitor, record, and report physical signs of hospitalized patients
· Clean cages, runs, and/or hospital facilities, including exam rooms, treatment room
· Prepare, centrifuge, and read a PCV/TS sample, as well as collect and submit samples.
· Properly perform a SNAP heartworm test
· Accurately perform UA dipstick test
· Demonstrate proper phone etiquette
· Demonstrates ability to schedule appointments
· Demonstrate appropriate triage skills
· Demonstrates appropriate patient check in
· Demonstrates appropriate interaction with clients
· Documents correct information on patient records
· Performs nail trims on canine/felines
· Can accurately pull up IV medication
· Can administer SQ injections