My position as a veterinary assistant includes:- Restraining patients during procedures and examinations- Filling medical prescriptions- Drawing up and administering vaccinations- Monitoring patients' vital signs during surgeries- Operating in-house laboratory equipment to run urine and blood tests- Helping plan company community outreach events

As an animal caretaker at Martin Family Farms, I fulfilled a wide variety of duties within various areas of the swine farming industry. These included departments such as farrowing, gestation, breeding, guilt-developing, isolation, and nursery. My responsibilities included independently identifying and treating sows or piglets with injuries or sicknesses, pulling piglets from farrowing sows, castrating and tail-docking piglets, humanely euthanizing pigs with a low quality of life, regularly monitoring the body condition and feed intake of sows, performing heat and pregnancy checks on sows, and artificially inseminating sows using both traditional and post-cervical methods. I also assisted in a research study by Veterinary Pharmaceutical Solutions observing the effects of different medications on shoulder sores in sows. Additionally, this position included frequently communicating with coworkers in Spanish.

Responsibilities of this position included: - Organizing physical files of previous and current funeral arrangements- Operating the computer program, "Osiris," to transfer funeral arrangement files to a digital format- Assisting with the preparation of funeral service programs and keepsakes