(potential to become Head Surgery Technician)
General Description of Position: The technician is responsible for client and patient care and for assisting the veterinarian during surgery.
Job Requirements/Skills/Physical Demands: Certified or experienced (3+ years in field) veterinary technician with great client communication and telephone skills. Must effectively be able to read, speak, and write in English. Must have basic computer literacy skills and be able to handle multiple unrelated tasks simultaneously while working in a busy environment. Must also be able to lift 50 pounds, work on feet all day, and write legibly. Must be customer service oriented and friendly. Professional appearance required, scrubs are to be worn at all times and are furnished by the employee. Must be able to work all shifts, including nights and weekends (Saturdays). Technician will be required to be at work when scheduled and be on time. Must be able to administer injections, perform venipuncture, take vital signs of animal, and properly restrain animals, including fractious pets, for examination and treatment. Technician must be able to give treatments/medications intravenously, orally, and subcutaneously. Employee must be able to work well independently and in a group. Upon hiring, all new employees will be subject to a 90 day probationary period during which time employment may be terminated as determined by management. All aforementioned requirements are subject to change by the employer at any time.
Reports to: Head Technician
Supervises: Veterinary assistants
Essential Functions:
Technician Duties:
- Review vaccination records and prepare vaccines according to our vaccine protocol
- Assist veterinarian in medical procedures using proper restraint; know how to restrain fractious patients
- Assist veterinarian in surgical procedures using proper aseptic technique
- Maintain and use medical equipment such as IDEXX Lasercyte and autoclave
- Perform routine laboratory procedures and analyses in hematology, microbiology, urinalysis, and serology
- Prepare samples for outside laboratory analysis
- Administer treatments and injections following the instructions of a doctor or a treatment form
- Initiate emergency procedures
- Maintain pharmacy records, and controlled drug, anesthesia, fecal, and heartworm test logs
- Take and develop radiographs
- Take vital signs of animals including temperature, pulse, and respiration
- Perform and analyze skin and ear cytologies
- Perform catheterization- urinary and venous
- Complete ear cleanings and nail trims
- Perform other duties as assigned
Surgical Duties:
- Monitor patients under anesthesia
- Induce anesthesia and intubate patient
- Understand aseptic principles and apply them to surgical patients, instruments, equipment, and rooms.
- Know the names of instruments and where they are stored.
- Prepare the surgery suite(s) for incoming patients.
- Prepare patients for surgery. Clip surgical fields with straight margins. Minimize tissue trauma. Properly scrub and prepare surgical fields. Maintain
clean fields when moving patients.
- Properly position and align patients for surgery.
- Use circulating warm-water baths and/or hot water bottles to maintain the body temperatures of anesthetic and surgical patients.
- Properly scrub hands and arms for surgical cleanliness, and aseptically gown and glove yourself when called to assist or "scrub in."
- Assist surgeons with aseptic gowning and gloving.
- Anticipate surgeons' needs for assistance, instruments, and patient monitoring, and treatments.
- Monitor patients' recoveries. Protect patients from aspiration and hypothermia. Deflate cuffs and remove endotracheal tubes as soon as gag reflexes
return.
- Stimulate and care for puppies and kittens removed by cesarean section.
- Maintain surgery logs with patients' names, doctors' names, procedures performed, types and amounts of preanesthetic and anesthetic agents, and
surgical times.
- Maintain controlled-substance logs with patients' names, doctors' names, types and amounts of drugs used, amounts of drugs remaining, and your
signature.
- Keep controlled drugs secured to meet Drug Enforcement Agency and state board specifications.
Work Environment:
Small animal hospital, work in front and back of hospital, high level of client interaction, exposure to x-rays and anesthetic gases with proper protective measures. Potential for exposure to zoonotic diseases and possible hazardous materials.
To apply, please reply to the above email with your resume attached or fax your resume to 773.271.5901.
Location: Lincoln SquareCompensation: DOEPrincipals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.Please, no phone calls about this job!Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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