LVT I - SA 24/7 Care

Classification Title

Licensed Veterinary Tech I

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent and valid state licensure

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on Licensed Veterinary Technician experience within an emergency critical care setting.
• Active Licensed Veterinary Technician within the state of Georgia or ability to transfer license from another state within 6 months of employment.

Position Summary

The licensed veterinary technician position is responsible for providing animal nursing care within the Emergency Critical Care unit of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. This position is skilled in all facets of veterinary animal care regarding patient assessment, emergency triage procedures, surgery preparation and patient case management. This position involves handling patients in life threatening situations where the following duties involved in triage of accident patients includes: CPR, Collection of blood, urine by expression, cystocentesis or catheterization, Administration and application of anesthesia, drugs, fluids, medications and immunological agents by oral, parenteral and injectable routes and utilization of computer systems to enter and maintain medical record keeping. The LVT is expected to professionally communicate with Veterinarians, students and fellow technicians concerning the affected workflow, time limitations and patient status and will maintain a positive attitude and calm demeanor throughout stressful situations.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Competencies

• Graduation from an accredited Veterinary Technician program and passing the VTNE with confirmed LVT license in the state of Georgia or ability to obtain an LVT license in the state of Georgia within 6 months of employment.
• Experience properly handling animals.
• Capable of dealing with stressful situations
• Ability to perform phlebotomy on animals
• Capable of manually calculating basic formulas for weight conversions, medication dose conversions
• Knowledge of animal anatomy

Physical Demands

• Lift and carry up to 75 pounds.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions, deal with problems with concrete variables, and draw appropriate/accurate conclusions.
• Sit, stand, stoop, bend, and walk intermittently during the day on hard floor surfaces.
• Dealing with stressful situations.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to accurately work with small, delicate pieces of equipment or large, heavy objects/containers/machinery.
• Wear all protective gear including mask, gloves, gown, hairnet, safety goggles etc.
• Work for long periods of time with arms extended.
• Work within an environment that has high levels of animal sounds, bodily fluids that need disposal, and open wound management.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Provide medical care to small animal patients that are receiving emergency services.
• Read and understand patient records, and having knowledge of medical condition processes.
• Perform multiple procedures, including intravenous and arterial catheterization, Collection of blood, urine by expression, CPR and triage.
• Administration and application of treatments, drugs, fluids, medications and immunological agents by oral, parenteral and injectable routes, venipuncture, intubation, calculating drug doses.
• Percentage of time: 40

Duties/Responsibilities

• Use equipment such as pulse oximetry, direct arterial pressures, central venous pressures, IV fluid pumps, syringe pumps, indirect blood pressures and oxygen cages.
• Manage of various types of tubes (chest, GI and nasal), troubleshooting various catheters and tubes for problems and solutions, caring for emergent and critical patients.
• Induction and maintenance of anesthesia; placement of intra-nasal, intra-gastric tubes; dental procedures; euthanasia; surgical assistance; resuscitative procedures; applications of splints and slings; application of appropriate wound dressings and external supportive care in severe wound and burn cases.
• Percentage of time: 30

Duties/Responsibilities

• Attend and provide in-put during patient rounds, complete patient status reports, assist with patient receiving, perform or assist with specimen collection, enter VETVIEW requests and patient charges, communicate surgical cases with anesthesia, obtain lab results.
• Percentage of time: 30