Veterinary Team Training

If you are a credentialed veterinary technician (VT) does your hospital pay you more than someone who is on the job (OTJ) trained with the same experience? When a new OTJ and a new credentialed VT are hired into your practice does the credentialed VT earn more? Are there certain opportunities that are only awarded to the credentialed VTs of your hospital?  No??!!  Then this is S#$! You Shouldn't Have To Put Up With.  Let's dive into OTJ vs credentialed VTs. 

Are you a veterinary technician or nurse whose skills are not being utilized? Do you watch as your veterinarian places IV catheters, performs a dental prophy or vaccinates all the pets? Let's talk about the importance of utilizing veterinary technicians and nurses to the fullest. Failure to do so results in high turnover and a loss of revenue. This is s#&! you shouldn't have to put up with.  

Let's dive into these 3 terms and understand why they are all necessary depending on the situation. Having a deeper understanding will allow you to know when to apply them, but also how to protect yourself from compassion fatigue.

Disclaimer: I am not a licensed therapist, psychologist or counselor. This podcast is not meant to replace professional mental health resources.  This podcast is meant to bring awareness and resources about suicide prevention to those who work in the veterinary profession. It's meant to open up the conversation around mental health with a focus on suicide prevention. It's a tough, but important conversation that needs to happen in every veterinary hospital.

Resources That Compliment This Podcast:

https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/

https://qprinstitute.com/

https://nomv.org/

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/index.html

Why do adults bully each other? How is it even a thing?? It's not only a thing, but prominent in many veterinary hospitals, the industry in general and everywhere online.  Bullying is S#&! we shouldn't have to put up with in veterinary medicine.

We all have them, angry clients. The ones that yell, scream and even curse at us.  In this podcast I talk about why they may be angry and ways we can help manage them better.

Welcome to the first in the series I'm titling "S#$! You Shouldn't Have to Put Up With." In this episode I'm going to be discussing Bad Bosses. Let's define some traits of a bad boss and what you can do if you have one. 

How can veterinary professionals show Olympic sized love and kindness to themselves? Are we failing our team if we say "I can't come in for that shift" or "I can't stay late?" Let's talk about the Olympics, mental health and boundaries.

Too often owners, managers and supervisors believe the employee who always says "yes" is the most loyal, but are they? Let's dive into what true loyalty is and why many leaders fail to recognize it.

All veterinary professionals should be paid more, but there's a difference between being paid well and being paid fairly. Are you being paid fairly? How does your workplace justify your pay? Is there a method to who gets paid what or is it a free-for-all? Paying fairly is important so employees know that salaries aren't based on favoritism.