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BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Grand Rapids, MI is now hiring an energetic, passionate, and driven Veterinary Technician to join their fast-paced Emergency team. This is a full time opportunity, typically working three 12 hour overnight shifts per week.
Do you work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment?
Would your peers describe you as patient, respectful, and compassionate?
Are you eager to make a difference for animals and provide premier patient care?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, we want to hear from you!As an Emergency Veterinary Technician: You compassionately, calmly and gently approach and handle patients. You approach and handle patients according to safety protocols and core values. You appropriately utilize cold sterilization. You will clean, appropriately wrap, and sterilize instruments. You set up for routine procedures You induce, monitor and recover anesthesia in patients. You can accurately and completely prepare and maintain anesthetic monitoring forms. You obtain and interpret blood pressure and alert Veterinarian to changes and issues. You set up constant rate infusions (CRI). You place peripheral over-the-needle catheter in all peripheral vessels. You appropriately restrain aggressive canine and feline patients. You can recognize abnormal heart and lung sounds. You maintain all feeding tubes You calculate all medical math including advanced and CRI (mcg/mg, /mg, etc). You can identify patients at risk for arrest and initiates CPR according to R.E.C.O.V.E.R guidelines.Qualifications: Current certification/license in veterinary technology. Experience working in a veterinary emergency practice preferred. High School graduate.Additional Benefits:
health benefits options
competitive compensation
flexible hours
scrub allowance
referral bonus program
additional training
unlimited growth potential
/BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and you will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation or affectional preference, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.//www.bluepearljobs.com/Job: Vet TechnicianTitle: Emergency Veterinary Technician - OvernightLocation: Michigan-Grand Rapids-150010 Grand Rapids MiRequisition ID: 150006GA