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Handling and Restraint Fundamentals

Leadership and Management

Medicating Patients

Nursing Skills

Competence in nursing skills integrates knowledge, expertise, and attitudes, which enables technicians to perform their jobs effectively and cope with change, and the unexpected.

Service Skills

Learn to differentiate between verbal and nonverbal communication, recognize that facial expressions and eye contact can communicate louder than words, and understand the important role of voice tone.

Advanced Interpretation of ECGs for Veterinary Technicians (RACE)

Review the five questions to ask when looking at an arrhythmia on an ECG. Practice deciphering arrhythmias. Calculate the heart rate from an ECG and interpret common arrhythmias.

Basic Fluid Therapy for Veterinary Technicians (RACE)

This webinar will review the basic physiology of fluids in canine and feline patients. Understand why fluids may be prescribed, and how fluids are administered, calculate a fluid plan, and prepare to monitor patients receiving fluid therapy.

Care and Maintenance of IV Catheters (RACE)

This video will focus on the care and maintenance of IV catheters to improve outcomes and prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBI). Establish the importance of catheter selection, placement, and maintenance on patient well-being.

Clinical Pathology Bootcamp (RACE)

Understand the basics of blood and urine interpretation, review basic morphology of blood and urine samples, how to make a blood smear, and recognize abnormal morphology on a urine sediment in small animal patients.

CPR for the Veterinary Technician (RACE)

Assess if a patient requires CPR, learn when to Initiate basic life support, apply an ECG, perform ALS, understand the drugs used during a CPR event, review the RECOVER CPR guidelines, and recognize the importance of teamwork during a code.

Critical Care Nursing and Monitoring (RACE)

Assess a critically ill hospitalized veterinary patient. Understand the nursing process and its application to critically ill patients. Apply critical thinking concepts to create nursing plans. Interpret vital signs and nursing parameters.

Diabetes 101 (RACE)

This video will review normal glucose metabolism. Summarize canine and feline diabetes. Discuss the common treatments for diabetes including insulin types. Reinforce the role of veterinary technicians in diabetic patient care.

ECG Basics (RACE)

This video will review the electrophysiology of the cardiac system. Identify normal electrophysiology of the cardiac system. Recall normal waveforms in a lead two ECG. Interpret common arrhythmias.

Inventory Manager Certificate (RACE)

Maximize your role as an inventory manager. Set up your PIMS, design a weekly inventory budget. Review necessary inventory calculations for monitoring inventory and preventing shrinkage. Discuss placing orders, bulk orders, and controlled substances.

Nursing of the Abdominal Trauma / Surgery Patient (RACE)

Nursing a patient who is post-op from a major abdominal procedure or abdominal trauma may be daunting. Review abdominal anatomy, basic abdominal procedures, concepts of trauma, and discuss appropriate nursing principles.

Nursing of the Thoracic Trauma / Surgery Patient (RACE)

Review thoracic anatomy and basic thoracic procedures. Explore the concepts of trauma. Discuss nursing principles used for patients requiring intensive thoracic nursing.

Oxygenation and Ventilation (RACE)

Pain Management for Veterinary Technicians (RACE)

Review the anatomy of pain and understand the pain pathway. Explore how a pain impulse is generated. Apply pharmacology knowledge to pain drugs. Understand pain score application. Discuss nursing principles and interventions to alleviate pain.

Red, White, and Blues - Transfusion Medicine in the Canine and Feline (RACE)

This webinar will review basic transfusion medicine and products, common canine and feline blood types, crossmatching, transfusion administration, and transfusion reaction monitoring.

The Secrets of Feline Behavior (RACE)

Cat behavior can be mysterious to veterinary staff and cat owners. But, if we know why behaviors occur and what is needed to minimize behaviors, we can educate our clients. By meeting minimum behavior needs for cats, problems may disappear.

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