Veterinary Assistant & Technician Community
Our new Veterinary Assistant & Technician Community will make finding resources, answers to your questions, and support when needed faster and more fun.
Our new Veterinary Assistant & Technician Community will make finding resources, answers to your questions, and support when needed faster and more fun.
Mental health and its importance in the veterinary field.
The Veterinary Assistant and Technician Community is your new home for ongoing education, resources, and support in an open, accepting, and inclusive environment.
Welcome to the IQ presentation of feline behavior!
In this 3 part lecture, Dr. Mathis talks about dental extractions, local blocks as well as dental instruments.
The down and dirty of HR basics for supervisors.
In this dermatology lecture by IGNITE's Dr. Candace Sousa, you will learn all about the newest veterinary dermatology trends.
Learn how to give feedback to your staff and all that comes along with it from IGNITE's Annika VanNoy!
Attend this webinar on Laryngeal Paralysis in Dogs to gain a veterinary expert's essential knowledge and practical advice. This webinar will empower you to advocate for your dog's health and make informed decisions.
Let's Get Social: Basics to Veterinary Social Media This bootcamp will cover the basic 3 topics: 1) Consent Matters 2) Using Core Values and Practice "Vibes" to create the right platform 3) Targeting Your Audience
We will learn about fill rates, the benefits of proven processes, getting team and clinic buy-in, and using a call worksheet! We, CSR's, are the faces of our clinics, and their ability to thrive is because of us!
Gain tips and tools on how to have an Effective Conversation with Clients: Handling the Tough Conversations.
CSRs must juggle focused client attention with lengthy to-do lists to keep the busy clinic running smoothly. Prioritization, preparation, and tools are key to sustaining this pace while preserving well-being, passion, and teamwork.
Intro to finance teaches the basics of managing and obtaining money, including time value, risk, markets, investments, and corporate finance fundamentals.
Budget basics involve understanding your income and expenses to create a plan for managing your money. This includes tracking where your money goes, prioritizing spending, setting financial goals, and making informed decisions about saving and debt.
"FEARless" leadership isn't about lacking fear, but using it to benefit your team. Learn practical techniques for resilience, emotional awareness, change management, and empathy to become a stronger leader.
Within this lecture you will learn what a proper diagnostic workup looks like for inappropriate urination case, the myriad of causes of inappropriate urination, how handling of samples can give false readings and much more!
Employee termination is challenging legally and humanely; the approach is crucial. This presentation offers steps to prepare for and conduct termination meetings that minimize legal risks and allow employees to depart with dignity and respect.
Boost staff morale and team cohesion by incorporating the engaging Pawsonality Profiles tool into your upcoming meeting, moving beyond routine presentations to tackle current workplace difficulties.
This talk will review traditional in-clinic fecal diagnostics, update attendees on new strategies for better parasite detection, and briefly cover reference laboratory services.
This case-based presentation will cover anatomical variations in small and large breed dogs and cats, enabling you to recognize both normal and abnormal findings in clinical practice.
This lecture will cover hyperbaric oxygen physiology, explaining how oxygen and pressure promote healing. Case examples will illustrate hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and compare machine types.
During this presentation, you will walk away with how to define your practice's important employees. There are also pitfalls when offering employee benefits and agreements to keep essential employees.
This presentation will cover key elements of practice planning, including budgeting, financial stability, savings strategies, investment diversification, and hiring financial advisors.
This lecture will discuss the medical vs. surgical decision-making process for spinal disease, with a focus on intervertebral disk disease and other neurological topics.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of cancer cytology, including sample preparation, quality assessment, cancer type identification, and optimal case selection. The goal is to encourage in-clinic slide review prior to pathologist submission.
We will review key questions and a systemic approach to help you recognize and classify the most critical, immediate emergencies, whether by phone or upon arrival at your hospital.
Career changes in veterinary medicine.
Donna's IQ session will cover puppy development from birth through the juvenile stage, including socialization, fear periods, temperament testing, and child interaction guidelines.
A deep dive into Canine Laryngeal Paralysis.
This presentation will cover key elements of practice planning, including building personal wealth, retaining employees, and avoiding mistakes in practice sales.
During this presentation you will walk away with 5 steps to create optimal balance in your finances. A well as, how to improve awareness and control of your spending. And how to systematize your savings outside your 401(k).
This video collection will provide guidelines for positioning patients to obtain diagnostic-quality dental radiographs. Understand how to correctly position the animal, sensor, and tube head for diagnostic radiographs.
Competence in nursing skills integrates knowledge, expertise, and attitudes, which enables technicians to perform their jobs effectively and cope with change, and the unexpected.
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.
An in-depth course on what a CSR should know about teeth and dental procedures!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Review thoracic anatomy and basic thoracic procedures. Explore the concepts of trauma. Discuss nursing principles used for patients requiring intensive thoracic nursing.
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.
This webinar will review basic transfusion medicine and products, common canine and feline blood types, crossmatching, transfusion administration, and transfusion reaction monitoring.
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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