Emergency Veterinary Assistant - Chapel Hill, NC

The role

The Emergency Veterinary Assistant performs nursing care, patient monitoring, and treatments. This role involves triaging patients, administering medications, and assisting with diagnostic tests and anesthesia.

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.
• Perform nursing care tasks such as placing 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
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Veterinary technician credentialing
• Trainer role
• Community outreach
• Leadership

Benefits

• Industry-leading compensation
• Latest equipment and technology
• Generous employee pet discount
• Referral rewards
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• 401K with company match
• Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks 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.