Practice Management

How practice managers and owners can make sure their newest doctor is a success.

The United States Department of Agriculture is moving to eliminate horse industry organizations from the horse inspection process.

If it's 9pm and the veterinarian is filling out medical recordsand you're not working the emergency-practice swing shift. Dr. Ernie Ward guarantees your veternarians are underutilizing assistants and technicians in the exam room.

Marketing you, your veterinary practice and your good deeds should not include candid snaps of your less-than-perfect surgical protocols. (Isn't that what got Dr. Pol in trouble?)

We asked you for hacks gone wrong, and boy, did you deliver. Check out this compilation of brilliant ideas gone wrongway wrong.

An associate's anxiety was crippling our team. The team members were frustrated and complaining. Something needed to change at this dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year contestant's veterinary hospital. So they made a plan ...

Compassion fatigue is a real and dangerous threat to the health of veterinary professionals and their patients, but Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Veterinary Technician Becky Murray has mapped out a guide for healthy coping.

Our two-doctor veterinary show turned into a solo act when a DVM went out on a well-deserved maternity leave. Here are seven pieces of advice for other managers and teams living through a veterinarian's extended leave.

Use this to-do list from Lisel Coles, a 2016 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year contestant, to make your meetings a little less work and a lot more play.

VHMA members spill their best-kept secrets for successful staff management.

Use this rescue checklist from Jess Brotherton, 2016 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year contestant, to weather the scary switch.

Your underwear theme could be the cue to spark creativity and positivity in your veterinary practice.

Is it the practice owner's job to put a stop to insulting client behavior directed toward his team?

If team members are fleeing your veterinary practice, it just might be for one of these reasons--their top 10 frustrations in practice.

Client compliance is big when it comes to ear disease. In order to heal those poor crusty-eared pooches, be up-front about the info you'll need from clients. We've organized it for you!

When a fearful patient comes in, these veterinary team members consider whether a Thundershirt fitting is in order.

VHMA members spill their best kept secrets for better patient care.

We slam the 8 key for invoices to save time for receptionists, technicians and veterinarians.

Find tech-savvy tools to reach pet owners in the digital age.

When our veterinary hospital has an opening, job applicants flood in. They cant seem to resist our website and our social media pages that show off (honestly) our support of local community, care for patients and teamwork.

Department of Labor sets salary threshold for overtime pay at $47,476.

These techniques on low-stress handling in a practice will save you, your patients and staff from everyday stressful events.

Shhhh ... your secret's safe with us.

Dave Nicol, BVMS, once a practice owner in Australia and now chief veterinary officer of practice chain Love That Pet, gets real.

Veterinary practice managers are fundamental, and so is their compensation.

This handout gives your clients the information they need about the cost and tests involved in managing their pet's chronic disease.

It's sooo easy. And youre not doing it. Stop hiding from it and use these super-simple steps to make forward booking work for your veterinary practice.

Personality types be damned! Bash Halow, LVT, CVPM, shares the simple but demanding steps he takes in every crucial conversation he manages in veterinary practice and in life.