Technician: Blogs

Your roles as educator, efficiency expert, nurse and support person can make a visit to your practice memorable and helpful. Client compliance and animal health depend in great part on the job you do. Check here for tips, ideas and handouts geared towards helping you help your patients, your clients and your doctors.

Blogs

Managing Grief in the Workplace

Self-care is important to a profession that involves long hours, hard work, and unhappy endings, and this is never truer than during a traumatic event in the practice. Veterinary medicine has a lot...

Is Your Door Really Open to Staff?

In the spirit of creating a healthy practice, communication is the keystone; it is imperative to the process. The practice has to set up policies and encourage open communication throughout the...

Where Are You Headed?

There are many different options for employment out there for veterinary technicians. As we mentioned last time, you may work for a lab, a zoo, an industry partner, a wildlife refuge, a university,...

Providing Team-Building Activities for Strong Social Relationships

Mention the words “team-building activity” to any group of veterinary professionals, and you’ll hear nothing but moans and groans from the team. A few may even try to sneak out the...

Is Your Team Burning Out?

No matter whom you are or what practice you work in, it always seems there much more work to be done than can possibly be accomplished. We tire after days and weeks of carrying a heavy workload, and...

6 Questions To Ask Your Team To Ensure Success

What if your boss asked you to put up a fence, but didn’t give you a hammer and nails? I imagine you wouldn’t be very happy. Well, first you would probably laugh and wonder if they were...

Is Your Clinic the Best For Staff As Well As Patients?

What's the Third Law of a Healthy Workplace? Provide acceptable benefits to aid staff in practicing beneficial self-care. One of the most important aspects of minimizing and coping with compassion...

Incentivizing Critical Thinking

One of the summer jobs I held to fund my college education was as a frame welder and sub-floor builder at a mobile home plant. My crew was composed of jail birds that got out on 8-hour work release...

Do You Provide Continuing Education for Your Team?

Veterinary medicine is constantly changing as new medications are discovered, tools are created, protocols are proven, and recommendations are published. As part of the medical support staff,...

Burnout: Causes and Solutions—Conclusion

Burnout: Ideals in the Face of Trauma When it’s time to look at the “emotional” aspects of the work we do in veterinary medicine, there aren’t a lot of resources available....