By Lisa E. Schenkel, Amanda Colón, Sandra Lynn Bertholf, Sabrina Timperman and Laurie J. Buell
Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students 4th Edition PDF provides a comprehensive review of the required American Veterinary Medical Association Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities (AVMA CVTEA®) essential skills for completion of a veterinary technology degree. Each essential skill includes assessment criteria as well as decision-making instructions necessary to demonstrate proficiency both academically and professionally.
The text is organized based on the categories provided by the AVMA CVTEA, making it easy for an instructor and students to locate the assessment criteria for a particular essential skill relative to their course.
Features:
Pharmacologic fundamentals of drug administration, pharmacy essentials of drug dispensing, compliance with state and federal regulation, and monitoring of therapeutic responses.
Ethics, jurisprudence, and communication in veterinary management.
Husbandry, nutrition, and therapeutics of common domestic species, handling and restraint, patient assessment, and dental procedures in small animals.
Fundamentals of and experiences with common surgical procedures, patient management and use of anesthetic equipment, proper surgical assistance, pain management, management of surgical equipment and facilities, and perioperative management.
Diagnostic laboratory procedures and management of laboratory specimens and equipment, parasitology of common domestic species and diagnostic procedures for parasite, microbiologic procedure and evaluations and necropsy procedures.
Avian, exotic, small, and large animal husbandry and nursing skills.
Table of Contents
Veterinary Management
1.1 Procedures and Policies
1.2 Communication Skills
1.3 Ethics and Jurisprudence
Pharmacology
2.1 Pharmacologic Fundamentals of Drug Administration
2.2 Pharmacy Essentials of Drug Dispensing
Medical Nursing
3.1 Assessment of the Veterinary Patient
3.2 Nursing Care of the Veterinary Patient
3.2.1 Husbandry of Common Domestic Species
3.2.2 Nutrition of Common Domestic Species
3.2.3 Therapeutics for Common Domestic Species
3.3 Dental Procedures in Small Animals
Anesthesia
4.1 Perioperative Management of the Veterinary Patient
4.2 Management and Use of Anesthetic Equipment
Surgical Nursing and Assisting
5.1 Fundamentals of Common Surgical Procedures
5.2 Experience with Common Surgical Procedures
5.3 Management of the Veterinary Surgical Patient
5.4 Management of Surgical Equipment and Facilities
Clinical Laboratory Procedures
6.1 Management of Laboratory Specimens and Equipment
