Experienced Veterinary Technician - 3rd Shift
- Employer
- Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospitals
- Location
- Holly Springs, North Carolina
- Closing date
- Jun 19, 2021
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Experienced Veterinary Technician - 3rd Shift
HIRING BONUS
Department: Emergency/Intensive Care Unit
Description: Full-time
Schedule: SMTW 9p-7a; includes some holidays
Location: Holly Springs, North Carolina
Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital is looking for a highly motivated, highly skilled individual to join our overnight team. We provide 24-hour emergency service and specialty referrals in surgery, internal medicine and dermatology, and we're looking for technicians who want to utilize their skills to the fullest potential in a fast paced, fun, and stimulating environment.
Our services are expanding, and we are currently seeking qualified technicians for our overnight emergency and ICU team. This role functions with a great deal of autonomy and responsibility; solid technical skills, sound judgment, excellent communication skills, a positive attitude and the ability to work both independently and with a team are required.
Essential Job Duties:
- Provide nursing care to critically ill hospitalized patients in conjunction with specialty and emergency veterinarians
- Participate in nurse rounds
- Triage incoming patients presenting on emergency
- Assess patient stability and obtain patient vital signs
- Perform diagnostics and treatments of emergency and hospitalized patients
- Perform hourly patient assessment and monitoring
- Observe patients and recognize changes in status
- Place peripheral and central catheters
- Restrain patients for exams and treatments
- Set up and administer IV and SQ fluids
- Maintain urinary catheters
- Bandage removal and application
- Perform suture and drain removal
- Perform drug dose calculations for injectable medications and CRIs
- Administer injectable medications (IV, IM, SQ)
- Administer other medications (PO, OU, OD)
- Maintain isolation protocols for infectious patients
- Basic wound cleaning and care
- Administer injectable and inhalant anesthesia
- Monitor patients while under anesthesia and maintain a monitoring log
- Monitor patients during recovery from anesthesia
- Obtain samples for and perform in house laboratory testing
- Assist in CPCR
Job Requirements:
- Graduation from high school or GED equivalent
- Minimum of 2 years of veterinary experience (emergency experience required)
- Current RVT in NC or eligible for NC registration (preferred, but not required)
Benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- CE budget
- Uniform budget
- Generous benefits package including health, vision, dental, LTD, STD, Life and AD&D and a 401k retirement plan (with company match)
- Signing Bonus
TO APPLY: https://www.trianglevrh.com/careers
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