Alyssa Mages, BS, CVT, FVTE, shares guidance on assessing emergency patients, communicating with distressed clients, and establishing a team-based triage process.
|Articles|August 30, 2009
Firstline Live 2009: Safety first, job security second
Following your practice's safety protocol, makes you an essential employee.
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If you get bit by a patient every day, you're not doing your job, Marianne Mallonee told a crowd of Firstline Live attendees at CVC in Kansas City. Hear why Mallonee, hospital administrator at Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colo., says following a safety protocol is so important to the practice's success--and your own.
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