Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Brentwood, MO

The role

The Emergency Veterinary Assistant performs nursing care, patient monitoring, and treatments. They assist with triage, medication administration, and diagnostic testing for patients.

What you will do

• Treat each patient and customer with compassion and care.
• Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
• Triage incoming patients using understanding of common diseases and physical assessment.
• Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications.
• Set-up, monitor, and administer intravenous fluid therapy.
• Contribute to incoming outpatient care and ongoing inpatient care.
• Participate in giving and receiving patient rounds.
• Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including imaging.
• Assist in setting-up, performing, monitoring sedation and surgical anesthesia with LVT or DVM supervision.
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and maintaining urinary catheters and nasal oxygen tubes.

Required qualifications

• Passionate and motivated.
• Team player that is honest and respectful to peers.
• Comfortable adapting to new scenarios.
• Willing to learn new techniques.
• Excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
• Excellent communication skills with peers, customers, and team.

Benefits

• Industry-leading compensation
• Latest equipment and technology
• Generous employee pet discount
• Referral rewards
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• 401K w/ company match
• Paid parental leave - up to 12 weeks of paid leave at 100% of regular salary
• Unlimited Continuing Education opportunities
• Flexible work schedules
• Growth potential
• Weekly groceries for staff
• Monthly and quarterly contests, quarterly hospital outings, and company-wide retreats

About the company

VEG is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States. Their mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most.