Veterinary Technician

W3Global

📍 parksville, regional district of nanaimo, Canada

Full-time Other-General

Job Description

Duties

  • Maintain working order of instruments/equipment/monitors
  • Support veterinarians in carrying out all daily activities
  • Perform technical procedures without supervision in dogs, cats, and rabbits, including:
  • Collection of vital parameters such as temperature/pulse/respiration
  • Venipuncture
  • IV and urinary catheter placement
  • Anesthetic induction and intubation
  • Anesthetic monitoring and maintenance
  • Surgical preparation
  • Extubation and recovery from anesthetic
  • Running blood, urine, fecal, and cytology samples on in-house Idexx machines
  • Prepping blood, urine, fecal, and cytology samples for review by a pathologist at a send-out lab.

Requirements

  • Completion of a two- or three-year animal health/veterinary technology college program is required
  • 5+ years of experience as a veterinary technician is required
  • Strong communication ski...
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