Registered Veterinary Technician - Urgent Care
Evergreen Animal Hospital
- Evergreen, CO
- $25.00-35.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Prepare records, consent forms, and the like
- Admit patients
- Present invoices and prepare estimates
- Handle telephone calls
- Greet clients in a friendly manner
- Dispense medications, pet foods, and supplies
- Properly invoice prescriptions and pet foods to maintain inventory
- Update client/patient files
- Perform closing procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Review vaccination records and prepare vaccines according to our vaccine protocol
- Assist veterinarian in medical procedures using proper restraint; know how to restrain fractious patients
- Assist veterinarian in surgical procedures using proper aseptic technique
- Maintain and use medical equipment
- Perform routine laboratory procedures and analyses in hematology, microbiology, urinalysis, and serology
- Prepare samples for outside laboratory analysis
- Monitor patients under anesthesia
- Induce anesthesia and intubate patient
- Administer treatments and injections following the instructions of a doctor or a treatment form
- Initiate emergency procedures
- Maintain pharmacy records, and controlled drug, anesthesia, fecal, and heartworm test logs
- Take radiographs
- Take vital signs of animals including temperature, pulse, and respiration
- Perform and analyze skin and ear cytologies
- Perform catheterization- urinary and venous
- Complete ear cleanings and nail trims
- Perform other duties as assigned