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|Videos|January 18, 2022

Maximizing your veterinary technician career

During an interview with dvm360®, Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia), offered inspiring advice for veterinary technicians to take control of their careers.

In an interview with dvm360®, Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia), highlighted the main takeaways from her lecture "Take control of your nursing career!" at the 2022 Veterinary Meeting & Expo in Orlando, Florida. Her discussion empowered veterinary technicians to rekindle their professional passion, plus she reviewed the many career paths they can take within veterinary medicine.

View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.

Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia): The main takeaway is that I wanted people to feel lit up about going to work like they used to. I want people to have that same spark that they did when they first graduated their tech program. Remember when you first graduated and you wanted to go in, and you wanted to do all the things, and you wanted to see all the emergencies, and you wanted to save every animal? I want that kind of like push and that drive to be present again.


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