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Veterinary Assistant
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$20 - $22
- Position Overview: The veterinary assistant provides support to the veterinarians and technicians in their daily tasks by cleaning and maintaining equipment, feeding, exercising and grooming patients, preparing and sanitizing surgery suites, restraining and handling patients, and clerical and administrative work.
- Essential Functions: Provide compassionate care to all patientsGreet patients and their owners as they arrive and show them to an examining room, taking the patient's weight and other vital signs upon arrivalTriage patients, perform physical exams, treatments, and administer medication as directed by the licensed veterinary technicians (LVT's).
- Calm and soothe anxious patientsAssist doctors and technicians with the administration of medications or with patient restraintPerform laboratory tests and take radiographsOperate and maintain hospital equipment, including EKG, fluid pump, syringe pump, scales, anesthetic monitors, and machines, etc.
- Fill prescriptions, calculate and administer medications, maintain proper documentation, logging, and security of controlled drugs.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the Manager; may have other assigned duties if working in a specialty area (, dentistry, surgery, emergency, radiology, cardiology, neurology, internal medicine, etc.)
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