Technicians

Stress on the job can be good and healthy. It means you care about your patients and clients in veterinary practice, and it can engage you in the moment to do your best work. But stress can also get out of control, harming your emotional wellbeing and physical body. Here are tips to manage your own stress and share that knowledge with your whole team.

If you have an end-stage otitis case thats not a candidate for surgery, PBMT can help manage some of the clinical signs.

Wheres the jumping off point for jumping into veterinary team building activities? Here are a few of my favorite resources.

Is "nurse" a better, more accurate name for what veterinary technicians do? Some nursing associations say vet techs are just trying to steal some of the credibility theyve fought for through the decades.

Time to switch your scrub cap out for your teaching cap. Heres an in-depth look at how to talk your veterinary clients through at-home administration of subcutaneous fluids.

Patients undergoing photobiomodulation seem to calm down in the clinic after a few treatments. Whats going on?

Otitis cases may need more than one appointment to resolve, but how do you get clients to see the importance of bringing their pet back to the clinic?

... they'd be a fairy tale of pet-care happy endings, or a horror movie about not enough, or too much, on the shelves. Here are short answers to five frequently asked inventory questions you can share with everyone on your hospital team that can help explain the importance of inventory management in a pet hospital and get the basics right.

Help enforce the importance of parasite prevention for new kitten owners with this printable handout.

Many veterinary professionals fear self-care. I saw, firsthand, at a Fetch dvm360 conference how those who tried yoga or meditation seemed to smile a little easier and to share a little more with their peers.

Calming music and pheromones top the list for great ancillary items for hospitalized pets, according to these two finalists in the 2018 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year contest.

Add some oomph to your heartworm prevention conversations with these tips.

Educating veterinary clients on the ins and outs of congestive heart failure can be tough. Heres help.

From rehab in the veterinary clinic to getting pet owners started with their pets at home, here are some of our favorite products.

This key skill is one of the biggest factors needed to fight the compassion fatigue and burnout that weighs veterinary professionals down, according to Vets4Vets organizer Dr. Bree Montana.

Paintings become that much better with a pudgy tabby cat added into the mix, dont you agree?

An original Veterinary Anesthesia Nerd says 'that's just the way we've always done it' is a bad basis for anesthetic protocols.

Fear of human drug abuse has affected our work in veterinary hospitals. Here are some alternatives to opioids you should use whether or not we ever get our preferred pain relief drugs back.

Eliminate the stress of elimination for veterinary clients and their fur babies this handout.

Pets are family, and whether youre walking a veterinary client through their first euthanasia or their fifth, these are the most important things to keep in mind.

When the threat of a corporation buying the practice from Dr. Codger is impending, will Dr. Greenskin fish or cut bait?

For pet owners who are habitually tardy with refills, a pill organizer could be just the thing to remind them.

Female equine veterinarians share their gender discrimination experiences from vet school and beyond.

Cyberattacks are a form of psychological violence that cause serious damage to organizations and individuals. Address cyberbullying head on or risk disastrous impact on your veterinary staff and business.

When veterinary clients and internet trolls gang up on private practitioners, the effects can hurt business, harm reputations and damage psyches of those on the receiving end of cyberbullying. In this series, experts share tools and plans to help avoid internet rampages, deal with them when they crop up, and help make veterinarians and veterinary team members more resilient when people go on the verbal attack.

You don't have to know everything! When you play to each other's strengths, you can ease pets' fears more effectively.

With exam room conversations about pet obesity, youre playing the long game. It might take a few chats to get a veterinary client on board that theres a problem and then more talking to agree to a plan. Dont get frustrated. Try this.

These trees are no good for large animals. Offer clients this handout and tell them to call you if they suspect ingestion of branches, bark or leaves.