Veterinary Assistant school training courses in Albuquerque, NM (public, in-house or online)

Veterinary assistants are becoming more important as valued members of the veterinary health care team in today’s modern practices. This one-year program prepares you to support veterinary technicians and veterinarians in a veterinary practice. Duties performed by veterinary assistants include animal restraint, preparing animals for surgery, care of surgical instruments and other equipment, care and feeding of in-patients, processing radiographs, and front office procedures. Veterinary assi...

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Veterinary assistants are professionals who work in all aspects of animal care, including surgical nursing, the laboratory, assisting with exams, and coordination of the vet practice. The Veterinary Assisting certificate program at Carrington College can teach students the skills necessary to work as veterinary assistants in vets�offices, animal hospitals, shelters, research institutions, zoos, or related industries.

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You’ll help animals on a regular basis and have a job filled with variety and tenderness. Vet Assistants feed and bathe animals, administer medication as prescribed by the Veterinarian and assist the Veterinary team with animal nursing techniques. If you love animals, becoming a Vet Assistant may be for you. PMI’s Veterinary Assistant training covers animal emergency medicine, lab procedures, nursing skills and more.

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Veterinary Assisting school covers the following:
Emergency Medicine
The Physical Examination
Ethics and Professionalism
Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology
Behavior and Physical Restraint
Pathology, Preventive Medicine and Disease
Laboratory Procedures
Pharmacology and Pharmacy Practices
Diagnostic Imaging
Surgical Nursing

The Veterinary Assisting Course is comprised of 22 comprehensive lessons. They are easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson begins with a subject matter preview and objectives, an introductory note from your instructor and a vocabulary builder of new words and terms.

Next comes the reading assignment. Practice exercises help you check and review what you’ve learned. At the end of the lesson is an open-book exam, which you may take online.