Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Fort Myers, FL
$31,200–$31,200 year
On-siteFort Myers, Florida, United States
Fort Myers, Florida, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$31,200–$31,200 yearSenior LevelVeterinaryLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLargeVeterinary
Job Summary
Treat each patient and customer with compassion while performing basic to intermediate nursing care, monitoring, and treatments. Accurately triage incoming patients using physical assessments and administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications, including fluid therapy and blood transfusions. Collect samples for diagnostic tests and imaging, assist with sedation and surgical anesthesia under supervision, and maintain urinary catheters and oxygen administration techniques. Participate in patient rounds and contribute to both outpatient and inpatient care as a vital member of the nursing team.
Required Qualifications
- RECOVER Certified Rescuer
- Passionate and motivated
- Team player
- Honest and respectful to peers
- Comfortable adapting to new scenarios
- Willing to learn new techniques
- Think outside the box
- Excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group
- Positive attitude
- Ability to accomplish assigned tasks for all areas involved
- Know when to ask for assistance
- Excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and team
- Understanding of common diseases and conditions
- Physical assessment skills
- Monitoring parameters knowledge
- Ability to accurately triage incoming patients
- Ability to administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications
- Understanding of potential adverse effects of medications
- Ability to set up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy
- Knowledge of constant rate infusions
- Knowledge of blood transfusion therapy
- Ability to work alongside licensed veterinary technicians as a vital member of the nursing care team
- Ability to properly perform all aspects of CPR
- Ability to collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including in-house and point-of-care tests
- Ability to perform diagnostic imaging
- Ability to assist in setting up, performing, monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia with LVT or DVM supervision
- Ability to place and maintain urinary catheters
- Ability to maintain nasal oxygen tubes
- Ability to set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages
- Ability to administer oxygen administration techniques
- Ability to obtain additional training along guided growth pathways offering roles in addition to direct nursing care such as veterinary technician credentialing, trainer role, community outreach, and leadership
- Ability to administer, monitor, and maintain patients under general anesthesia with or without mechanical ventilation for patients with varied levels of risk (where permitted by law)
- Ability to perform advanced vascular access techniques including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization (where permitted by law)
- Ability to perform advanced diagnostic techniques including ultrasonography and paracentesis (where permitted by law)
- Ability to participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans (where permitted by law)
Desired Qualifications
- Love what you do
- Love working with animals and people
- Happy to pitch in wherever and whenever you are needed
- Demonstrate the ability to accomplish assigned tasks for all areas involved, knowing when to ask for assistance
- Display excellent communication skills with your peers, customers, and team
- Industry-leading compensation
- Latest equipment and technology
- Employee pet discount
- Referral rewards
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- 401K with company match
- Paid parental leave - up to 12 weeks of paid leave at 100% of regular salary
- Unlimited Continuing Education opportunities
- Flexible work schedules for a true work-life balance
- Growth potential
- Groceries sent to the hospitals weekly for the staff to enjoy
- Monthly and quarterly contests
- Quarterly hospital outings
- Company-wide retreats
- Fun work environment
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