Veterinary Emergency Group
Emergency Credentialed Veterinary Technician (Relief) - Omaha, NE
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 hours ago
Patient CareLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCritical Thinking
About the role
- What we're aiming to achieve on the customer side is equivalent in nature to what we want for our employees: to have the best experience possible.
- In fact, VEG is one of this year's nominees for INC Magazine's Best Places to Work!
- FOCUS To apply a patient-centered approach while performing treatments, making patient assessments, and all other aspects of patient care.
Responsibilities
- Perform basic to intermediate nursing care tasks, patient monitoring, and treatments.
- Be trained to properly perform all aspects of CPR as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer.
- Collect samples and perform diagnostic tests including in-house & point-of-care tests and diagnostic imaging.
- Perform nursing care tasks such as placing and/or maintaining urinary catheters, nasoenteral tubes, nasal oxygen tubes, chest and abdominal tubes.
- Set up, maintain, and troubleshoot oxygen cages and other oxygen administration techniques.
- We build our hospitals from scratch.
Requirements
- You are a credentialed veterinary technician.
- You are passionate and motivated.
- You are comfortable adapting to new scenarios, willing to learn new techniques, and think outside the box.
- You have excellent interpersonal capabilities across a diverse group.
- You're happy to pitch in wherever and whenever you are needed, with a positive attitude.
- You demonstrate the ability to accomplish assigned tasks for all areas involved, knowing when to ask for assistance.
Nice to have
- Participate in formulating treatment, anesthetic, and nursing care plans.
- Conduct treatments using clinical decision-making skills according to protocolized plans.
- Aid in managing patient care workload to ensure the patients are receiving uncompromised care.
- Obtain additional training along guided growth pathways offering roles in addition to direct nursing care such as VTS certification, trainer role, coordination of care, community outreach, and leadership.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Veterinary technician specialist (VTS) certification will receive additional considerations in practice role and compensation.
- 1+ years of experience in a veterinary technician role.
- Experience in emergency or specialty medicine preferred.
Compensation
- Veterinary technician specialist (VTS) certification will receive additional considerations in practice role and compensation.
Benefits
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- Paid parental leave - 10 weeks of paid leave at 100% of regular salary
- Unlimited Continuing Education opportunities - we want to help you grow in your career!
- Flexible work schedules for a true work-life balance
Company info
- VEG is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States. Our mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most. We are revolutionizing emergency medicine with a "customer first" mentality and a true, employee-centric work environment.
- TALENT + CULTURE AT VEG
- At VEG, we want people and their pets to feel safe, secure, and valued
- we want our employees to feel the same way. What we're aiming to achieve on the customer side is equivalent in nature to what we want for our employees: to have the best experience possible. With the highest NPS score in our industry, we're ready to ensure that VEG remains the place where the best and brightest in the emergency world not only want to work, but stay and grow. For our customers and their pets, we strive to find a way to say, "yes." We do the same and more for our teams. In fact, VEG is one of this year's nominees for INC Magazine's Best Places to Work!
- VEG is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States.
- Our mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most.
- We are revolutionizing emergency medicine with a "customer first" mentality and a true, employee-centric work environment.
- At VEG, we want people and their pets to feel safe, secure, and valued; we want our employees to feel the same way.
- With the highest NPS score in our industry, we're ready to ensure that VEG remains the place where the best and brightest in the emergency world not only want to work, but stay and grow.
- For our customers and their pets, we strive to find a way to say, "yes." We do the same and more for our teams.
- To apply a patient-centered approach while performing treatments, making patient assessments, and all other aspects of patient care.
- This role will promote learning and growth as an emergency veterinary technician, providing opportunities for advancement towards a Veterinary Technician Specialist certification and participating in the coordination of care.
- Veterinary technicians autonomously function using critical thinking and leadership to carry out patient treatment plans in coordination with the veterinary team.
- You value learning and are a team player that is honest and respectful to your peers.
- You love what you do.
- You love working with animals and people.
- You display excellent communication skills with your peers, customers, and team.
- All clinical team members:
- Treat each patient and customer with the highest level of compassion & care.
- Use understanding of common diseases and conditions, physical assessment, and monitoring parameters to accurately triage incoming patients.
- Administer subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous medications and understand potential adverse effects of medications.
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