Emergency Animal Care Attendant

at  YegVet Inc

SUMMARY

To provide gold standard nursing and comfort care to our patients with clear and effective client communication. This will be a very important accessory role to our medical team and will include assisting them with their treatments and updating owners.
This role will work under the direction of the RVT in charge of the patient’s medical care. The primary focus will be on comfort care for our Level 1 and 2 patients.
There is a heavy emphasis on quality of care with this role. This position schedule is shift work (10hr shifts), working evening, weekends, and holidays will be required based on rotation.

The need for this accessory role has risen due to the shortage of veterinary professionals. When examining the day-to-day work of registered veterinary professionals, we need to highlight was is in their scope of practice and place an emphasis of time on those activities for them. When the hospital is busy, their medical expertise is prioritized, and the non-medical activities become less of a focus.
Boreal Veterinary Centre feels that those “non-medical” activities are often under emphasized. Things like nutritional intake are often part of what confirm end of life decisions for clients. Sometimes this is due to increased costs related to prolonged hospital stays, or what the client perceives as quality of life