Registered Veterinary Technician in Emergency and critical care

I am an RVT with a huge interest in Anesthesia and Emergency medicine. I have been working in emergency and critical medicine since September 2020 and I have loved every minute of it! I have 3 years experience working in rDVM practice with a keen interest in anesthesia. I have over six years of experience working in shelter environment, which taught me how to work in a high volume fast paced environment with little resources/staff to help. Shelter medicine is emergency medicine on a budget. I learned how to do exams, medicate patients and perform minor procedures by myself. Using low stress handling techniques, I am able to instill confidence in the patients I work with, helping them feel safe with little to no stress. I am Fear Free certified as well as Low Stress Handling certified. These fear free and low stress handling skills, also allow me to help educate clients in the post-op period with medicating, and caring for their pet using low stress handling techniques. Treating their animals emotional state as well as the physical one. I have passion for learning and can easily adapt to new environments. I look forward to having the opportunity to interview for the Animal Emergency Clinic RVT position.

RVT in emergency and critical care

Cavan Hills Veterinary Services - Cavan, ON

November 2020 to Present

Able to triage patients and assist DVM in medical plan for patient.

Follow treatment plan from DVMs and give medications on time for multiple critical care patients without falling behind.

Work really well in a team, love to train new staff as well as new graduates. I love to instill confidence and encourage staff to conquer new skills.

Quickly able to prepare and induce patients for emergency surgery, monitor anesthesia and make critical decisions during anesthesia based on changing vitals, while communicating to DVM on the case.

Very comfortable with anesthesia in many species, such as cats, dogs, ferrets, guinea pigs, birds, reptiles, pigs, hedgehogs, rats as well as other pocket and exotic pets.

Care for critical patients and update DVM on changes that need attention immediately.

Efficient catheter placement, as well as excellent blood collection techniques. Able to collect blood from donors, great at cystocentesis and able to do all manual lab work required to work up patients.

Can place NE and NG tubes under sedation. Also, can place and suture in u-caths in male dogs.

Able to unblock male cats and suture in u-cath with DVM supervision

Excellent dental radiographs, scaling and polishing while monitoring anesthesia.

Able to monitor patients closely whom are receiving blood transfusions.

Excellent CPR skills, able to place catheters and intubating patients quickly as well as quickly calculate emergency drugs in my head.

Excellent and efficient hands-free radiograph skills.

Able to create and calculate quickly safe anesthesia protocol for each patient by reading history and assessing ASA levels.

Excellent at client communication and very comfortable educating clients on a wide variety of diseases as well as post-op care. Able to answer all questions with confidence.

I would like to keep this job part time/occasional

RVT in Anesthesiologist Department

Animal Health Partners - Toronto, ON

September 2020 to November 2020

Able to work up cases by going through medical history from rDVMs and other head departments notes. From that information I am able choose safe appropriate anesthetic protocols approved by head Anesthesiologist.

Quickly learned more in-depth anesthetic monitoring; using MAC to control anesthetic depth as well as physical signs of the animal. Taking in consideration of analgesic drugs and CRIs used, as well as understanding surgical stimulation to keep my patient at appropriate levels of anesthesia.

I understand capnographs, direct arterial blood pressure monitoring as well as oscillometer blood pressure, ECG tracings and what to look for, using it in conjunction with the pleth created from the SPO2 to detect first degree and second-degree heart blocks.

Fully understand the risks associated with anesthesia and follow cases from start to finish to achieve highest success rate in the post op period.

Competent at placing IV catheters, ET tubes, drawing blood, calculating drug dosages, knowing when to intervene with emergency drugs/interventions, calculating IV fluids, drug CRI's.

Learned how to use a respirator for my patients under longer anesthetic periods.

I left this job as it was not feasible to drive downtown and deal with Toronto traffic. Sometimes being away from home for 15+ hours due to Toronto traffic does not work for my schedule as a mom and pet parent. This was a great training in anesthesia and I have expanded my knowledge vastly because of this job. I have brought this knowledge to my new job and have helped improve where I work now.

Registered Veterinary Technician

Brock Street Animal Hospital - Whitby, ON

May 2017 to July 2020

Since starting at Brock Street Animal Hospital, the Veterinarians and owners of the clinic have allowed me to do behaviour consultation with clients that lead to behaviour modification programs that I design for each dog, training the owner as well as the dog. This is a new revenue stream for the clinic and is continuing to grow. Some consultations are one or two visits to help with minor behaviour issues. Other consultations are multiple visits to work on more complex behaviour issues.

RVT duties: efficient blood collection skills, assisting in appointments, anesthetic induction and monitoring, intubation, intravenous catheter placement, laser therapy treatments, dental scaling and polishing including dental radiographs, x-rays, dispensing medication as well as client education about medications.

Started preventive behaviour courses for puppies and kittens.

Fear free Certification in animal handling and client education.

Receptionist duties: answering phones, booking appointments, educating clients, able to answer questions regarding care of their pet, replying to emails.

Certified in laser therapy.

RVT Shelter Supervisor (Full-time)

Humane Society of Durham Region

September 2013 to May 2017

Medically responsible for a population over 250 cats and dogs, birds, guinea pigs, rabbits and many other species as the only RVT on staff.

Supervise Animal Care Workers and volunteer staff (100+ people) .

Create behaviour modification plans for dogs with behavioral issues and do the training necessary to create successful adoptions.

Working with part-time DVM, I follow protocols that DVM creates and can work independently without supervision.

Work well with the team that I oversee and train staff on animal restraint, lab work and behaviour work.

Responsible for all records being up to date on our online record program.

Educate adopters and foster parents on a variety of care instructions.

Created all current protocols for inputting into our record system called petpoint.

Responsible for inventory of facility, ordering from multiple companies and keeping good records of bills.

Design fearful and aggressive dog education programs for staff and volunteers.

Animal Health Technician

Animal Care Services, Queens University - Kingston, ON

September 2008 to November 2013

Responsible on weekends, and holidays for the care of the non-humane primate colony.

Provide animal husbandry and enrichment for non-human primates, cats, hemophilia dogs, guinea pigs, mice and rats

Do visual health checks and fill out health reports for sick animals.

Administer variety treatments when requested.

Aid Veterinarian and Laboratory Technicians when required.

Lead RVT (Full-time)

Kingston Humane Society

January 2011 to August 2013

Supervise RVTs, Veterinary Assistants and ward attendants to ensure care of animals is met daily

Responsible for communicating to management and staff about the needs of the animals.

Able to work safely and independently with multiple animals while performing a physical exam and administering medication

Responsible for making protocols, counting inventory, ordering and invoices

Perform physical exams on cats and dogs daily; give appropriate medical care to meet the individual's needs.

Perform fecal floats, fecal smears and urinalysis daily.

Able to skillfully handle extremely feral/aggressive/unpredictable cats and dogs with confidence and ease

Teachers Assistant

ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE - Kingston, ON

September 2008 to December 2011

Assist the teacher and demonstrate and coach the students on techniques in five separate courses.

Help organize the class before and during.

Able to answer questions that students may have regarding the course material.

Skills and Achievements

Fear free Certification

Low Stress Handling Silver certification

Laser therapy certification

Working on becoming a certified dog trainer

Working on Veterinary Technician Specialty in Behaviour certification

Graduated in June 2010 with honors from St. Lawrence College for Veterinary Technology

Passed the written portion of RLAT April 2010

RVT certificate achieved November 2010

Certificate of appreciation for outstanding performance and work ethic for the Kingston Humane Society

Outstanding leadership skills

Organized Multitasking ability

Excellent communication skills

Ambitious and independent worker but also a contributing member to a team

Excellent low stress restraint skills for multiple species.

In-house parasitology expert, as well as urinalysis and other laboratory specimens.

Excellent work ethic, extremely motivated

Effective time management skills

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