TECHNICIAN DUTIES:

• Prepare records, consent forms, and the like

• Admit patients

• Present invoices and prepare estimates

• Handle telephone calls

• Maintain health certificate and rabies certificate files

• 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 and develop radiographs

• Take vital signs of animals including temperature, pulse, and respiration

• Perform dental cleanings

• Perform and analyze skin and ear cytologies

• Perform catheterization- urinary and venous

• Complete ear cleanings and nail trims

• Perform other duties as assigned