Lead Veterinary Technician at Veterinary Emergency Group (2023-07 – Present)
- Perform intermediate to advanced nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
- Able to run the floor and maintain flow, keep an eye on every patient's status, my team's capacity, and the needs of the doctors. Able to get ER done and pivot when abrupt changes in case load occur.
- Coordinate breaks for team members, recognizing when there are times that teammates are able to work on Cultivate, VEGX assignments, etc.
- Leads team huddles, chaos huddles, and participates in beginning of shift rounds to keep a clear pulse on inpatient team needs.
- Coach and guide veterinary assistants and veterinary nurses to perform clinical tasks to maintain VEG standards of care and encourage growth.
- Trained in RECOVER basic and advanced life saving techniques.
- Perform advanced vascular access techniques including jugular catheter placement, sampling line placement, central line placement, intraosseous catheterization, and arterial catheterization.
- Participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.
- Running endoscopies, surgeries, and codes.
- Educating and advocating for every family and patient that comes in.
- Able to effectively and clearly communicate with management and express needs of the team.
- Places IV catheters, performs blood work and radiographs, helps perform endoscopy, performs and reads blood smears and differentials, executes difficult medical math without mistakes, running laceration repair procedures, cleans wounds, and bandages patients when necessary. Performs CPR quickly and efficiently when required. Makes extremely detailed medical notes, obtains all vitals, and gives all medications as needed on time. Creates anesthetic protocols for all emergent surgical patients with doctors, induces anesthesia, monitors, and recovers patients without incident.
- Inspiring new technicians to learn and to provide them with the knowledge to do so.
- Participating in an exceptional culture, work ethic, and our community at Veg ER for Pets.
- Training and educating interns, externs, assistants, junior staff of technicians, and receptionists.
Lead Emergency Veterinary Technician at Northside Emergency Pet Clinic (2019-10 – 2023-07)
- Worked closely with a team to ensure excellent and compassionate care for patients in urgent or life-threatening situations.
- Identified any changes and/or worsening conditions of hospitalized patients and alerted DVM promptly and accurately to provide the best medical care possible.
- Placed IV catheters, urinary catheters, central lines, sampling lines, NG Tubes, performed blood work and radiographs, helped perform endoscopy, performed and read blood smears and differentials, executed difficult medical math without mistakes, Assisted in laceration repairs, cleaned wounds, laser therapy, and bandages patients when necessary. Performed CPR quickly and efficiently when required. Made extremely detailed medical notes, obtained all vitals, and gave all medications as needed on time. Created anesthetic protocols for all emergent surgical patients with doctors, induced anesthesia, monitored, and recovered patients without incident.
- Anticipated doctor's plans for patients and prepared for treatments based on patients presenting complaints and current conditions.
- Managed interns, externs, assistants, junior staff of technicians, and receptionists.
- Interviewed with interns and externs; oversaw training and education for soon-to-be or new graduates of technician programs. Created schedules and training programs to fit individual and hospital needs.
- Created a positive and compassionate work environment for all coworkers.
- Collaborated with the doctors, hospital owner, and hospital management to ensure excellent client communication.
- Worked closely with management on escalated issues to resolve all problems quickly and accurately. Expertly diffused tense and difficult situations quickly and empathetically.
Emergency Veterinary Technician at Boulder Road Veterinary Specialists (2018-11 – 2019-10)
- Performed expert-level patient care for emergent, neurologic, ophthalmologic, and oncologic patients.
- Trained new technicians and assistants in emergency medicine protocols, techniques, and methods.
- Performed anesthesia safely for high-risk procedures, as well as neurologic surgeries and MRIs, and recovered them without incident.
- Triaged emergencies and determined the level of urgency while remaining calm and professional.
- Monitored all hospitalized patients for changes in health, behavior, or demeanor and alerted doctors to any significant changes.
- Placed IV catheters, urinary catheters, collected blood samples, ran blood work, performed diagnostic imaging, ran anesthesia, assisted with laceration repairs, performed bandage changes, performed CPR, monitored critically ill patients for long periods.
- Maintained patients' IV lines, CRI lines, medications, treatments, and vitals while ensuring their comfort and ease.
- Discharged patients and educated owners to ensure the best possible outcome once the patients are taken home.
Veterinary Technician at Red Rocks Animal Center (2018-04 – 2018-11)
- Completed appointments and completed examinations on all species of animals.
- Administered treatments for hospitalized patients and post-operative patients.
- Managed over 20 parvovirus patients at a time while maintaining sterility and following proper disease prevention protocol.
- Coordinated spay and neuter programs with rescues and foster parents to ensure all patients from each organization were spayed and neutered before adoption.
- Trained all incoming technicians and assistants on protocols, laws, and duties.
- Implemented strict protocol for controlled drug logs and maintained controlled drug logs.
- Managed patient care for the high volume of incoming and outgoing patients.
