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Columbus, Ohio Area

Integrated Oncology Tier II Veterinary Care Technician

Columbus, Ohio Area

Internal Medicine Specialty Department Technician.Newsletter Committee Chairman.

Responsibilities of a student at Sinclair Community College include behaving as a professional in appearance, behavior, and organization during class and throughout program-related clinical rotations. Student in the Registered Veterinary Technologist Program. President of the Sinclair Community College Vet Tech Club. President of the Sinclair Community College Speech & Debate Team. Member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society - Nu Pi Chapter. Member of the National Society of Leadership and Success - Sigma Alpha Pi Chapter.

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist. Specific skills include catheter placement, phlebotomy, surgical & anesthetic preparation, monitoring, and recovering of patients, diagnostic radiography, and hospitalization care of critical patients (i.e. renal failure, DKA).

Dayton, Ohio Area

Working in the Laboratory of Animal Research with intent to observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist and Registered Laboratory Animal Technician. Included in this is the ability to perform colony management, execute colony identification techniques (i.e. foot dyes), maintain AAALAC & IACUC standards of sanitization, cleanliness, and protocols.Other skills involve euthanasia techniques, animal husbandry, and animal handling. Soft skills utilized include communication, cooperation, and interaction with researchers, investigators, and other graduate student interns.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist.Clinical rotation included time spent in the Medical Oncology Department, Cardiology Department, Internal Medicine Department, Nursing Department, and Emergency/Critical Care Department. Skills performed include animal restraint (for venipuncture, administration of chemotherapy, and abdominal and cardio ultrasound), ECG tracing, monitoring of a critical patient (i.e. fentanyl overdose), and laboratory diagnostic techniques (i.e. CBC, chemistry panel, modified manual reticulocytes for chemotherapy administration).

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist. Focus specifically around feline husbandry, surgeries (i.e. laser onychectomy), and general procedures (i.e. dental prophylaxis, wellness appointments). Emergency experience with Congestive Heart Failure, severely anemic due to flea infestation, and renal failure.

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist. Primary focus around low-cost spay and neuters. Focus on surgical and anesthetic preparation of the patient, surgical and anesthetic support of the veterinarian and patient, and recovery of the patient post-operation.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist. Specific focus on shelter medicine techniques, methods, and colony management. Specific focus on herd health, spay and neuters, and wellness/adoption checks of the shelter population.

Observe, learn, and proficiently execute the essential psychomotor skills required by a Registered Veterinary Technologist. Performed typical general practice duties of phlebotomy, fecal and urine tests, surgical and anesthetic preparation, monitoring, and recovery, and wellness check-ups. Specific focus was spent on client interaction, surgical and anesthetic monitoring, and clinic maintenance.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Job Shadowed under Jim Tinnell and with Dr. Karen Dorsey. Witnessed exotic, domestic, and pocket pet care administered by a Registered Veterinary Technologist.

Molecular Genetics

Registered Veterinary Technology, Veterinary/Animal Health Technology/Technician And Veterinary Assistant

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Registered Veterinary Technology Program, Veterinary Technician Club, Speech and Debate.

General Studies

Participated in courses with intent to transfer.

Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Participated in general courses relative to the BioMedical Engineering Program.