Procedures Experience
This list is not a complete list and can vary depending on the time of year.
The large animal portion of veterinary medicine is seasonal.
- Clean stalls and kennels
- Walk dogs and feeding
- Restraint of dogs, cats and horses
- Temperature, Pulse and Respiration with clients present
- Nail trims, baths, dips
- Clean ears
- Calculate and administer medications
- Small animal treatments
- Equine treatments
- Intravenous, Intramuscular, and Subcutaneous injections
- Blood draws- Small animal and Equine
- X-ray both take and process films
- Lab work- CBC, UA, Fecals, Profiles, Microbiology
- IV Catheter
- Ride out with Equine vet. to farms and assisting
- Barn worming and vaccines
- Induction, preparation, and monitoring of anesthesia
- Assist in equine and small animal surgery
- Dentals
- Administer IV fluids with and without fluid pump
- Pharmacology, filling prescriptions
- Tracheal wash
- Belly taps
- Joint injections
- Equine castrations
- Palpation and Ultrasound
- Stud collection
- Artificial insemination
- Cast placement
- Teeth floating
- Acupuncture
- Tube feeding