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Ethos Veterinary Health is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Veterinary Technician - Internal Medicine Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our internal medicine department, you will provide primary support to our specialists with diagnostics, treatments, and procedures, ensuring the highest quality of care for our patients.

• Support to Specialists: Manage the flow of appointment schedules, communicate with department liaisons, coordinate diagnostics and procedures with imaging and anesthesia services, and provide nursing skills and support to specialists with treatment or diagnostic requests.
• Patient Care: Assess patients, obtain vital data, perform IVC placement, phlebotomy, intubations, administer injections, radiology, laboratory, basic anesthesia (prep/assistance/monitoring), and recover CPR.
• Record Keeping: Record and communicate patient information accurately into patient medical records, and communicate patient status, changes in status, patient report information accurately and thoroughly with doctors and ICU.
• Equipment Maintenance: Set up and maintain equipment as needed, knowledge of use and care of monitoring/diagnostic equipment, safely and effectively restrain patients, prepare and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by doctors, collect, prepare, label, and test laboratory specimens as needed, and provide assistance with patient euthanasia and aftercare of remains in a timely manner.
• Client Education: Provide basic client education on nutrition, home care, medication administration, post-op care, and re-stock and maintain cleanliness of specialty department areas.
• Training and Development: Train less experienced staff members on policies, procedures, technical skills, medical information, and cross-train to assist in other areas of the hospital as needed.

• Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience as a veterinary technician.
• Skills: Ability to perform all key responsibilities of a technician assistant, knowledge of safety procedures and acceptable sanitation/sterilization practices, comprehension of commonly used medical terminology and equipment, ability to calculate accurate dosages and injections, familiarity with CPR and rescue breathing, ability to take direction from a variety of people under various situations and accurately follow instructions, capability of anticipating needs of doctors and nurses and show initiative, ability to react quickly and appropriately during emergency situations, and remain calm under pressure.
• Education: High school diploma or GED, and Bachelor's and/or Technician Certification preferred.

Ethos Veterinary Health offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, a 401k with employer match, and paid time off (including sick time) for all eligible employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from qualified candidates.