
Do you feel it? The age of client service is hereand it's here to stay. Here are the six steps this veterinary practice took that lead to a record-breaking year.

Long-time dvm360 magazine and Firstline contributor Kyle Palmer, CVT, is hospital manager for VCA Salem in Salem, Oregon, as well as a practice management consultant for a number of other hospitals.

Do you feel it? The age of client service is hereand it's here to stay. Here are the six steps this veterinary practice took that lead to a record-breaking year.

Are your veterinary clients on the fast track to bad and misleading pet care information? Its time to cancel their one-way ticket to confusion and potentially harmful home remedies and create a main line to the facts.

The contagion: Cliques. These groups of employees seem to band together for their common goodnot to be confused with the common good of the veterinary practice.

Are you a misunderstood member of the youth culture or a frustrated manager? Learn how to work together in harmony. (Hint: Millennials want more than a paycheck.)

When the doors swinging, how do you balance the clients needs with the mental and physical heath of your support team?

Protect team members, clients and patients with a safety policy for your practice.

Use this form to record any injuries that occur at your veterinary practice.

Share this protocol to make sure all team members know what to do if an accident happens at your veterinary practice.


Head off burnout and heat up your veterinary career with these hot tips to grow in your profession and offer the highest level of service and care for people and pets at your practice.

Simple gestures can improve your veterinary team's morale.

Use this sample employee review form as a basis to create your own veterinary team member review for your practice.

Use this sample veterinary team member review to create your own review form for your practice.

Whether you're a veterinary manager or a veterinary team member, it's time to work together to create the foundation for lasting career in veterinary practice.

Q: Why are some veterinary practices freezing wages or failing to offer raises?

Consider these 10 tips to make dentistry urgent for your team members and for clients.

Here are the benefits one veterinary practitioner has experienced firsthand.

If the day-to-day struggles of an ambulatory equine practice are wearing you down, it may be time to consider building, buying, or renting a haul-in facility.

If the day-to-day struggles of an ambulatory equine practice are wearing you down, it may be time to consider building, buying, or renting a haul-in facility.

Hiring trends prove it: Joining a mixed animal practice appeals less and less to new veterinary school graduates.
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Two potential owners, one dog, and no microchip. Here's what happened when our veterinary practice got stuck between a Good Samaritan and the owner who wanted her dog back.

The future of mixed-animal practice will survive if practice owners are willing to compromise with associates.

Get veterinary clients out of retail and back to your practice with a little marketing know-how and communication finesse.

A little marketing know-how (it's not a bad word!) and communication finesse can put you over the feed stores and get clients calling you first.

Here are two important ways that smartphones and other mobile devices are changing the way veterinarians communicate with clients.

Here's how you can do right by clients who can't afford the fees.

That device in your pocket does a lot more than make calls-it's a powerful client communication tool. Here's how to maximize the technology to make your interactions with equine clients more efficient.

Hire a ride-along technician for better patient care, improved revenue -- and that extra set of hands every solo practitioner needs.

Keeping an ambulatory practice on schedule is a challenge, but at least you can use these strategies to handle clients who knock your day on its rear.

Low-cost spays and neuters fill a crucial need. Veterinarians: Don't begrudge your colleagues who help.