Equine Veterinary Technician – Ambulatory Tech/Critical Care Nurse

Job Description- Shift days Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:30am-5:30pm (Ambulatory)

 Sunday 10am-8pm. (Critical Care Nurse)

Chaparral Veterinary Medical Center is looking for an experienced equine technician to join our growing equine practice. This is a full-time ambulatory/critical care position to support our growing 24-hour referral equine hospital.

We are looking for someone with 1-3 years of veterinary nursing experience and horse handling experience.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

Ambulatory Duties

.          Driving Vet trucks to appointments

·         Foal Restraint

.         Dental Equipment set up / clean

·         Xray set up / transfer images

·         Ultrasound set up

·         Submission of blood work / in-house blood work

·         Lunging / trotting horses

·         Sterile technique / PPE usage / Sterile prep for injections/surgeries

.         Keeping truck stocked

Critical Care Nurses

·         Read and understand patient charts, perform required treatments, and follow veterinarian’s orders accurately.

·         Accurately draw up medications to be given to patients.

·         Set up IV fluids

·         Calculate fluid rates

·         Working knowledge of common drugs, dosages, and frequency

·         Using fluid pumps

·         Trouble shooting fluid pumps

·         Recognizing abnormal parameters in hospitalized patients and notifying intern or doctor on case right away.

·         Set up for emergency intake.

·         Accurately take a TPR

·         Cleaning stalls

·         Setting IV and over-the-wire catheters.

·         Drawing blood

·         Knowing the different blood tubes.

·         Maintaining an indwelling NG tube.

·         Checking for reflux.

·         Place nasal oxygen cannula and secure when needed.

Hospitalization and Treatment

·         Chart SOAP notes on patient record and make changes of pain medication, fluid rates, nutritional orders etc. at the doctor’s request.

·         Manage critical care cases.

·         Perform triage of emergency patients and assess stability of hospital patients.

·         Place urinary catheters in patients

·         Monitor “ins and outs” of patients.

Laboratory

·         Collect blood from Jugular, cephalic, and saphenous veins.

·         Collect and run all lab samples (CBC, chemistry, fibrinogen, IgG, SAA, blood gas,       PCV/TP, blood lactate, abdominal lactate, blood glucose).

·         Collect and submit blood work and samples using Idexx vet connect.

·         Submission of coggins and health certificates through Global Vetlink.

·         Submission of handwritten coggins and heath certificates.

·         Send out specialty tests, tissue samples, and necropsy to outside labs.

·         Be able to trouble shoot lab equipment.