What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veterinary Technician - Intensive Care Unit position at VCA Animal Hospitals?
- Associate (Preferred)
- Veterinary experience: 3 years minimum in Emergency Medicine
- ICU experience: 1 year minimum working directly with critical patients
- Be an advocate for the patients and provide top-quality medicine for highly critical patients on an hourly basis.
- Have outstanding time management and organizational skills to keep up with and maintain hourly treatments.
- Maintain reliability (pertaining to time and attendance) to ensure the patients have adequate care.
- Be a self-starter who can work independently with minimal guidance.
- Ability to triage and prioritize critical patients.
- Have excellent communication skills while always maintaining kindness, compassion, and respect.
- Placing and managing IVC and PICC lines.
- Drawing venous, arterial blood samples, and urine samples. Cystocentesis is via U/S guided only.
- Administering critical and life-saving fluids & medications, including boluses, CRIs, and blood products.
- Cross-matching, blood typing, and administering transfusions (pRBC, FFP, cryoprecipitate).
- Effectively and efficiently perform all aspects of CPR (recording medications, intubating, compressions, etc.).
- Inducing (if RVT), monitoring, and recovering stable and critical patients from anesthesia.
- Assisting with a vast array of emergency and critical treatments, diagnostics, and procedures.
- Manage feeding tubes, JP drains, and chest tubes.
- Manage sedated and comatose patients on short-term and long-term ventilators.
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Benefits: We offer competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and paid vacation/sick days, 401(k), generous employee pet discounts and more!
The information in this position description indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, change in personnel, workload, or technical development)
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