Main description:

Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students, Third Edition provides students and instructors with clear guidance on how to evaluate student performance of skills required to enter the veterinary technology profession. * Provides students with clear guidance on the capabilities they are expected to demonstrate and how they will be evaluated * Gives instructors a standardized framework for assessing students performance * Offers tools for comparing standards of competency * Covers management, pharmacology, medical nursing, anesthesia and analgesia, surgical nursing, laboratory procedures, radiography, laboratory animal care, and exotic animal nursing * Includes access to a companion website with a downloadable log for recording progress

Contents:

Contributors vii Preface ix About the Companion Website xi 1 Veterinary Management 1 Sandra Bertholf 1.1 Procedures and Policies 1 Veterinary Management Skills Number 1 14 1.2 Communication Skills 3 Veterinary Management Skills Number 15 21 1.3 Ethics and Jurisprudence 3 Veterinary Management Skills Number 22 25 References 4 2 Pharmacology 5 Laurie J. Buell and Lisa E. Schenkel 2.1 Pharmacologic Fundamentals of Drug Administration 5 Pharmacology Skills Number 1 11 2.2 Pharmacy Essentials of Drug Dispensing 7 Pharmacology Skills Number 12 15 References 8 3 Medical Nursing 9 Deirdre Douglas, Laurie J. Buell and Lisa E. Schenkel 3.1 Assessment of the Veterinary Patient 9 Medical Nursing Skills Number 1 27 3.2 Nursing Care of the Veterinary Patient 12 Medical Nursing Skills Number 28 69 3.2.1 Husbandry of Common Domestic Species 12 Deirdre Douglas, Lisa E. Schenkel, Laurie J. Buell and Sabrina Timperman Medical Nursing Skills Number 28 36 3.2.2 Nutrition of Common Domestic Species 14 Deirdre Douglas, Lisa E. Schenkel, Sabrina Timperman and Laurie J. Buell Medical Nursing Skills Number 37 42 3.2.3 Therapeutics for Common Domestic Species 1 Lisa E. Schenkel, Laurie J. Buell, Sabrina Timperman, Nicole VanSant and Deirdre Douglas Medical Nursing Skills Number 43 69 3.3 Dental Procedures in Small Animals 21 Howard Gittelman Medical Nursing Skills Number 70 72 References 23 4 Anesthesia 25 Laurie J. Buell and Lisa E. Schenkel 4.1 Perioperative Management of the Veterinary Patient 25 Anesthesia and Analgesia Skills Number 1 9 4.2 Management and Use of Anesthetic Equipment 30 Anesthesia and Analgesia Skills Number 10 22 References 34 5 Surgical Nursing and Assisting 37 Laurie J. Buell and Lisa E. Schenkel 5.1 Fundamentals of Common Surgical Procedures 37 Surgical Nursing Skills Number 1 10 5.2 Experience with Common Surgical Procedures 39 Surgical Nursing Skills Number 11 12 5.3 Management of the Veterinary Surgical Patient 39 Surgical Nursing Skills Number 13 34 5.4 Management of Surgical Equipment and Facilities 44 Surgical Nursing Skills Number 35 44 References 47 6 Clinical Laboratory Procedures 49 Lisa E. Schenkel, Sabrina Timperman, Laurie J. Buell, Judy Duffelmeyer Kramer, Robin E. Sturtz and Deirdre Douglas 6.1 Management of Laboratory Specimens and Equipment 49 Clinical Laboratory Procedures Skills Number 1 4 6.2 Diagnostic Laboratory Procedures 49 Clinical Laboratory Procedures Skills Number 5 48 References 57 7 Radiography 59 Sandra Bertholf and Sabrina Timperman Radiography Skills Number 1 12 Reference 62 8 Laboratory Animal Care and Procedures 63 Natalie H. Ragland Laboratory Animal Care and Procedures Skills Number 1 17 References 67 9 Avian and Exotic Animal Nursing 69 Sabrina Timperman, Lisa E. Schenkel, Laurie J. Buell and Carol J. Gamez Exotic Animal Nursing Skills Number 1 10 References 73 Index 75