Hi everyone! I am a 4th year veterinary student looking for her first vet job and I found a great practice I would like to work at in Columbus, OH. They are really into trying to keep things in-house/ IMED, have orthopedics and are going to get a laparoscopic machine next year. I was wondering if there is anything a new grad wish they asked for in their contract or if this contract is appropriate and equitable or if there is anything I am forgetting to ask for. There was nothing about a quarterly meeting for performance goals/ improvement etc. I will be working 4 days a week with rotating Saturdays (one Saturday monthly).

THEIR OFFER:

• $128,000 per year or a fixed twenty-one percent (21%) of Employee’s “Annual Production Amount.”  

  • Employee’s “Annual Production Amount” shall be the amount of revenue collected by the Company or Affiliated Practices from veterinary services performed by Employee and eligible products sold by Employee in accordance with the Company’s policies during a twelve (12) month period beginning on the 1^(st) day of the month Employee’s employment commences with the Company.  
  • In addition, a one-time sign on bonus of two thousand dollars ($2,000) will be given.

• Clothing allowance of $150.00 per year

• Combined two (2) weeks leave for PTO for sick, and vacation

  • If the employee meets the % method, then the vacation days and personal days are not in effect. When you reach the % method, you can still take vacation days as described above, but you will not be paid as a salaried employee

• CE allowance of at least $1,500 per year

• AVMA, OVMA, CVMA, Medical Board License, DEA and your Liability Insurance will be paid

• Eligible for medical benefits (medical, vision, & dental) after 30 days and retirement benefits after 1 year of service.

I think I would like to ask for 2-3 paid CE days, 14 days vacation, 40 hours of sick leave, and maybe ask for a VIN/VetGirl etc subscription. I asked for 130k, which they supplemented with 128k and 2k bonus.

Thank you guys so much!

I'll try to keep this short as possible. I (30f) have been in vetmed for almost 6 years. I started as a receptionist and worked my way up to assistant, and am in my second semester with Penn Foster. I have spent the majority of my career at a 24hour emergency hospital, but recently started at a GP due to burnout. I have been at the GP for a little over 3 months.

I was in a dark place when I left the ER, and was hopeful that this change would help. It hasn't, in fact, things have gotten worse. There has been significant turnover since I started, and I am now the most experienced staff member at this GP. What was a staff of 6 experienced assistants/LVTs has dwindled down to 2 experienced assistants and 1 brand new assistant. I am often scheduled on appointments, tech appointments, and surgeries all together and have to shuffle everything. I almost never get to take a lunch due to the amount of work I have. I have been appointed the official trainer even though I was never asked, and have also been tasked with every interview that comes through. Again, I have been here for 3 months. Additionally, instead of hiring a new LVT, management has decided to constantly pressure me to cram through school, even with me reminding them that I have over a year left. I have worked >10 hour shifts 5 days a week for over a month now, again often with no break. I had a full mental break down a couple of weeks ago in the dental suite, and it got brushed under the rug. Management is taking advantage of me with absolutely no regard for my or anyone else's well being. I shit you not, they have had me running doctors appointments while also monitoring anesthesia on MANY occasions.

I recently decided that I need out. I've reached the point where I'm being cynical, which isn't like me, and I get extremely frustrated with my patients, which I used to never do. I wake up every morning and cry on my way to work. I've worked so hard to get where I am now, and this is an extremely difficult decision. I've already put out applications for anything I can find outside of vetmed.

Today it's the same shit. Multiple people called out so it's just me. Our manager did her usual schpeel of "being mindful of the amount of staff" when it came to our schedule today, but it was just for show. Within the first hour, our entire schedule was booked up with multiple sick pets. On top of that, I have now been tasked with updating our training protocols, servicing our autoclaves, ordering, and any other managerial task that the manager doesn't feel like doing today, but I have to do it before I leave. Looks like I'm not getting off till 8 tonight.

I'm writing this as I'm sitting in my car crying because I just can't do this anymore. I respect the shit out of most of the staff and so I wanted to give proper notice when I leave, but I can't bear the thought of coming back here for one more day. I just can't do this anymore, my mental health can't take it. I would love nothing more than to tell them that I will not be returning.

I don't know if I'm looking for advice or just needed to vent. I guess I just had to get out what's going through my brain. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Hello, I'm a vet tech for an animal shelter and our one and only x-ray has stopped working! The only thing that appears to be malfunctioning is the touchscreen on it that sets the exposure, but when the exposure isn't set it will not take an x-ray at all. I've tried fiddling with it for multiple days, tried to call IT support, my vet has even called the directors of radiology just to find out where to find help. Nothing has worked. Does anyone have any advice on how this issue might be fixed? Or even just who I can call for help? Thank you in advance!

I would like to do a certificate, but am finding the different qualifications confusing. I think because I did my RVN training via diploma route rather than degree I am restricted to NCert or CertAVN? This would then allow me to then move to PG Cert, Dip and Masters level? I have been looking at options and came across improve international. They offer an Ncert and Adv NCert. Where do these fit in? Are they even really recognised/accepted in the UK? The course looks interesting and is cheaper but I don't want to waste my time if the certificate means nothing at the end..

Covetrus, Vetsource, Blue Rabbit, Vetster… etc… experiences?

Hello! Wanting some advice on how to better my resume so I could get a job as a vet assistant! I registered at my local shelter to volunteer, but is there anything else I could do to help build my resume? Thank you!!

Incredibly frustrating case and incredibly incredibly frustrating owners. I work emergency/critical care in a referral hospital, and this lady (who owns a no kill shelter) brought her dog in for seizures. She’d seen another vet before but didn’t properly medicate the dog. The dog was having seizures every 2 weeks, sometimes even twice a day, and she thought it was normal. She brought it to emergency because this particular time the dog seizured for 30 min non stop, so she finally thought it was an issue and brought it in. Long story short, dog was in the hospital for a week, needed all the AEDs and CRIs and was on the mechanical ventilator, every time we tried to wean down the drugs the dog would start to seize again. Every time euthanasia was brought up the owner became aggressive. She started spreading lies on her shelter’s facebook page about us, saying things like we’re trying to kill her dog, we are overcharging her, we don’t know what we’re doing so that’s why we keep pushing for euthanasia, calling us all sorts of names. Kept calling up almost every 2 hours demanding us to give updates, which obviously we cannot do because we’re dealing with so many other patients in hospital and seeing other emergencies. It got to the point where she said she would just take the dog home, which of course we told them that’s not ethical because once it’s off all the meds it will start seizing again. She literally said she doesn’t care that the dog will keep seizing and doesn’t care if the dog can’t breathe (of course she conveniently left that out in her facebook posts). I had to delete facebook to stop looking at the horrible things people were saying about us, based on that woman’s lies. Why do we even try to do good and advocate for animals when the owner will just spread lies on the internet? We’ve deliberately kept the charges low because it’s a shelter dog, obviously that wasn’t enough for the owner. She kept saying we were making the dog worse by mechanically ventilating it and was just doing it to get more money (which, if we really wanted more money, we wouldn’t even recommend euthanasia at all).

What is a good amount to produce for a clinic annually as a full time experienced DVM in the US?

My husband is in the military and he just got orders to a new place that I am so excited for! I'll be following him there after I graduate in about a year and a half. However, as far as the job search goes - between indeed and the AVMA job search, the results are slim. And not for lack of veterinary care - it's outside of a major city but I don't want to drive an hour each way. And there are dozens of clinics in the surrounding areas where I'd be happy to work.

Would sending my CV and letter of intent directly to clinics in the area be bad form? I do know sometimes it's hard to advertise and maybe I'm looking in the wrong locations. I have gotten jobs this way before but I wasn't sure if this would be the right approach.

Area is Fort Knox, KY. I am not sure who the major corporate presence in the area is otherwise I'd be looking on their career site as well.

Hi all - I’m a vet tech licensed in two states and have been in this field for more than 5 years now. I was the top of my class in tech school and even valedictorian. I went right into exotic pet med during and after school, then right to a zoo/captive breeding center for a specific endangered taxa, where I’ve currently been for about 2 1/2 years.

I left my last job because of stress and burn out. I moved halfway across the country to work at this new, very niche institution with the promise that it was mellow and would be much less stressful than my previous job, and that this would get my foot in the door with zoo med. After I started, the DVM who hired me let me know he was soon planning to retire, and soon left me as the only full time vet staff having to juggle the health care of our entire collection along with coordinating vet care with some wonderful vets who would come up one a week or so.

After an exhaustive search, we hired our new vet. Things were wonderful at first! We were a great department of two and I was so excited to work with them. But things quickly took a turn for the worse, and I have spent the last year in misery, being treated very poorly, and being blamed for things that aren’t my fault, or for not catching the mistakes that my vet would make (and even getting written up for giving the wrong dose to a patient that I took directly from a treatment protocol the vet wrote up and gave me). I have and am open about having adhd, along with other neurodivergent traits, and when my boss learned about that, things got even worse, and HR kept getting involved. Things devolved so quickly, including my mental heath (which I already struggle with and which my boss and team all knew about), that I ended up needing to take FMLA for a mental health break.

I have lost all confidence in myself, and that absolutely tracks back to when my new boss/vet started. Not only is my confidence gone, but so is my love and passion for this position and potentially even this career. I feel so lost. I feel like I looked my dream in the face and it laughed right back at me.

I am extremely talented and passionate working with exotics/zoo animals, but I don’t know if my mental health can make it any further in this field. I also feel like I’ve lost some of my clinical skill working with other animals, as I’ve only worked with one taxa for the last couple years, so I feel that my options are limited. Does anyone have any experience or advice in this area? Has anyone ever gone into zoo med and been spit back out? Is there actually any little to no stress vet tech jobs out there? My personal ethics really struggled working at a brick and mortar pet clinic, and apparently they do here too, and I worry about leaving all of my patients in the hands of my not-so-competent boss.

I’ve been looking at online jobs for vet techs, but there aren’t a lot of options. I’ve considered going into academia, as I excelled in school and spent my time there as a peer tutor and helped coach students through a lot of their tougher classes and helped them to prep for the VTNE, but I don’t have anything more than a couple of years in community college and then my associates from tech school, so I don’t even know if I would be able to teach without obtaining further education (which I am not opposed to doing, I just don’t know where to start!).

I know I’m not the only one who has been in a position like this, and any advice or words of wisdom would be appreciated. I’m still young - late 20’s, but I also don’t want to give up everything I’ve worked so hard for and been so passionate about for so many years.

Thank you all so much and I’m sorry for my long rant! 💜

So i am imagining myself doing something animal related later in my future somewhere between a zoologist, veterinarian, wildlife rehabilitator or in between of those 3. I would like to hear from anyone who are in these professions and what they studied (subjects, level) to make it to any of these fields.

My current study is IB (international bachelorette) and my chosen subjects are the following:

-Biology HL

-English literature HL

-Danish HL

-Visual Arts HL

-Math SL

-History SL

(some of these subjects are unrelated to my future but i still wanted to include them in case).

I had thoughts of studying abroad (i live in Denmark) and study in a university related to my 3 options of an animal related job. I just don't know how to use my IB Diploma appropriately for my dream field, and would love to hear suggestions on what i can do as a high-school student to build my portfolio for university or the biggest help would be to know any vet specialized jobs (that may be an independent job) that make a good living but don't take like 10 years of studying..

I hope my question makes sense and if there's something i need to explain further please ask!

I work at a corporate practice. The managing DVM left and has not been replaced. Now the hospital manager (and maybe even one of the team “leads”) seem to think they have to start being the “boss” and they are micromanaging the staff. Management is inserting itself in all the drama and situations they should not be involved with. The support staff is trying to win managements favor by running to them to complain about people and they are supporting this behavior by trying to “do something about it”…. It’s drama. Wondering if I should go over the hospital manager’s head. To be fair, I would not hate leaving the clinic at this point and literally only stay because the pay is good and there are a few people there I like, plus I have a million clients. Also tell me about non-competes.

I'm currently in a clinic I love. Great place, amazing bosses (not corporate), great people, minimal drama (there's always some) etc. All of this made me realize one thing. If something happens with this job (i.e. I get fired/quite for some reason, or it gets sold to corporate) then I'm done with the field. I just don't think I can go back to a corporate setting/not unicorn clinic. And that honestly scares me because I have no clue what else to do with my life.

Hi guys. I’m a first time applicant and have so many questions about the application. I graduated from Texas A&M in December of 2021 with a bachelors in Animal Science. I have finally gained some hours in vet experience and animal experience and am ready to apply. My 1st question is about the letters of recommendation. I know 3 are required, but how many are required to come from a vet? Would my manager at my old bartending job be a good option for someone to write me a LOR?

Sooooo I’m trying to make a decision on what to do and struggling. I’ve been out nearly 6 years now and have worked ER exclusively (2 years of internship so basically ER lol). I recently moved states with my husband and made the jump to GP so I could have better hours and holidays off as I have two young kids. I’ve been working my GP job for about a month and I absolutely hate it. I despise having appointment times, once the techs are done with history I have like 10 minutes left of the appointment to do a physical and talk to the owner and make a plan if they have concerns. Working up sick things is a nightmare. The techs are also inexperienced and I’m doing a lot more than I’m used to doing (blood draws, giving meds, etc). I’m miserable. I have an opportunity to go back to ER and work 5 days a month and make the same base I’m making now in GP (3 days a week, sometimes 4 if it’s my Saturday). I would have to pay back my sign on bonus which is fine, I just have it sitting in a savings account. I’m moslty concerned about burning bridges as everyone I work with is very nice. And wondering how bad it will look on my resume? In my heart I know what I need to do, I guess I just need outside opinions to tell me I’m not an idiot (or of I am an idiot that’s okay too lol). Also major props to everyone who does GP, idk how you do this.

I’ve been a vet assistant for about a year and I’m really struggling with keeping things during appointment organized. I’ll forget to do a nail trim, or forget to give a handout to someone. More recently I have accidentally overlooked a rabies vaccine that was 3 months over due because of a stressful day. I feel like I’ve been making these mistakes a lot, especially in the past month or so. Any advice to help me stay organized?

Hello everyone!

I am a new grad working in a private clinic in semi-rural area of England. I love my job for so many reasons: my boss is amazing, my coworkers are great, we get protected breaks (1 hour lunch and TWO 30 minute tea breaks when possible), my boss is also my GDP adviser and is super supportive.

The only issue is that I feel like I’m just standing still. For reference, I’ve been at this job for 4.5 months now and I haven’t yet done spay. I’ve done a few lump removals, some cat castrates, some dog castrates, etc. Not a single spay.

I have friends who have been doing all kinds of surgery including enterotomies, big masses, splenic removal, etc. I understand each job comes with a downside, though, and the friends I know in those jobs are often run ragged and seem to be burnt out quicker.

I don’t want to leave my job, which is great in a lot of ways, but I’m scared I will never progress here. I’m terrified my surgical skills are slipping away, and to be honest I miss surgery.

I did communicate this to my boss a few weeks ago and she promised to try and get me more surgeries. I just don’t want to wait this out much longer, I’m started to feel frustrated. Part of it is out of her control, as she can’t magically make surgeries appear.

Would love to hear some thoughts.

ETA: a lot of people asking why I haven’t had a spay yet. The answer to that is a combination of things. My boss wanted me to get other surgeries under my belt first, we had a slow month or two with booking surgeries, and for now all spays have been going to my coworkers who have more experience. I actually had both a cat and bitch spay booked in in the past month and both cancelled: cat because she went into heat and the bitch because she went into a FP. The bitch could only rebook onto my coworkers surgery day, and not sure what happened with the cat.

Hi all, I am considering re-training as a vet and currently looking for some veterinary work experience. I am finding it incredibly challenging to get a responses (I totally understand that practices are so busy!) and am following up my emails with phone calls. I really like the practice where my pets are registered and think I have built a good relationship with the staff there—would it be weird to ask to volunteer at that practice? I was thinking of suggesting something more long-term like coming in once a week? How can I encourage them to take me on?

Also, any advice on how/where to get any additional experience would be really helpful! Thank you!

hey im gonna keep this short as possible.. im a vet tech/assistant 21f and i really really wanna start school this coming august to become a veterinarian. ive always felt like i am very smart, but i sometimes feel doubt about being smart enough to reach vet school. ive heard enough about how hard it is, but i know you never really know how truly hard it is until you experience it for yourself. i have generally good people skills but dont do well with confrontation. my grades in high school were not good at all because i didnt care for the curriculum. during that time i was unsure and hopeless about my future but ever since working in vet med my passion and love for animals has quadrupled. my aunt knows a lot about college and stuff and she believes i can still have a chance to go to college for animal science or biology or whatever it is i decide. i love doing what i do now, but id love to take it a step further. i guess the point of this post is to get some insight on things i really need to consider before going into school less than 6 months from now. i get the burn out, emotional stress, guilt, all that. tell me something i dont know! id really love some insight from vet students or veterinarians. whats some things you wish you knew before jumping into your career, or some advice you may have received that changed your perspective on everything.

note: ive been in vet med for only 2 years

All through vet school when they warned us about sewiside and burn out I didn’t bat an eye. I get it now. I work in an awful money driver practice where the corporate man works us to death at the expense of our own wellbeing and most importantly- quality care for the animals. If you’re considering becoming a vet, don’t do it to yourself. If you’re a pet owner, support small private practice. Edit: and if you own a private clinic please don’t sell out like everyone else

2. Edit 2: I encourage you to read the comments if you’re a prospective student, lots of useful perspectives.

Hi, I know this technically isn't related to the Vet sciences specifically...but I really hope that the innocence and good nature of the question, can allow it to stay...and maybe give other people some ideas.

Okay so my very close friend (we're technically not dating...but this girl and I are madly close. We've become attached at the hip, and I care about her so much. So more than friends and less than dating. Anyway! She's in school to become a Vet Tech and later possibly to become a full Vetenarian. My question would be... what cute Valentines Day things could I get for her while she's finishing up her Tech schooling this year? I'd love something actually related to the Vet Sciences. She's into Horror, the Macabre, etc, kinda punky etc. I'd love something that's kinda practical for her in her new career but also kinda fun, but I have no ides!! Any help would be amaze!

I have pretty bad social anxiety which I recently started taking sertraline for, and it has helped. But the anxiety still remains, just smaller and easier to tell myself that I’m not being rational.
Anyway, I started a job at an animal hospital as a vet assistant a little while ago, after having interned there for a couple months About 4 months ago. I constantly feel like I’m messing up, and it’s so stressful. I know that I’m probably being hard on myself but it’s so hard to get past that. I also am Pretty positive i have autism, so that makes initiating conversation (which I have to do often) incredibly hard for me. I also hate asking questions (I still do it), and I feel embarrassed and stupid for asking so many. And I feel like I’m probably doing way worse than everyone else who works there did in their training. I have mostly really good trainers, but one of them is more nitpicky and offers up critiques often (which is understandable, but when it’s almost everything I do it starts to get to my self-esteem). Idk I’m crying right now because I have to go into work this afternoon and my trainer is the nitpicky one and I’m just very nervous. (I’m not saying shes mean, I just mean she’s kinda stressful to train under cause i feel like I’m always messing up).
I guess what I’m asking is if there are any jobs you know of where you work with animals that doesn’t require constant communication with clients, coworkers, and Drs (I have a VERY hard time initiating conversation with “authority figures”). Like, I can do it, but then when I’m not doing it I feel like I’m about to burst into tears. And I cry on break because I feel so stupid and useless and embarrassed that everything that seems so easy for everyone else is so hard for me. I also HATE doing phone calls, and unfortunately a lot of the job is doing that. i just don’t want to mess up and hurt an animal.
im also in school for my vet tech certification (only 2 semesters left!) and I am doing well there. I just tend to overthink and be INCREDIBLY hard on myself.
i‘m sorry this post is long, I just need to talk about it.

i’ve been having a LOT of problems with my currently employment at a veterinary hospital, starting from the moment i was hired. there were plenty of reasons to leave, but also reasons to stay, so i ended up sticking it out. i had a moment yesterday (my birthday, of all times) that broke the camels back. i let the practice owner (my boss) know that i have a doctors appointment next month, with over 10 days of notice. it should be noted that im a cancer survivor and have been very vocal and transparent about that. she immediately questioned me about the appointment saying “your doctor just NOW told you that you have an appointment?” I explained that my appointment was moved up. but should i even have to explain that??? i have never once even so much as left early from work, i’ve never called in sick, every day off that i’ve ever had was given in plenty of weeks in advance and are far and few in between. i’m dependable and have shown up when we are short staffed, even when we had a covid outbreak in our clinic and lost all but myself and another assistant. the thing that is most bothersome is she pressed me for details so i revealed that i didn’t get very good news on a scan and they ordered another one. she proceeded to tell me that her brother in law had the same kind of cancer as me and never complained about the recovery, etc., “he was always fine.” and proceeded to say “so you’re just off then? 😒” so i was just baffled. it’s time for me to find a new job. the dilemma is, it is a one doctor hospital with a small staff. the most senior and only vet technician is leaving for a different job in 2 weeks and leaving behind 2 assistants with much less experience. now is not a good time for the clinic for me to leave too. i’m a receptionist who was responsible for training new hires, my other receptionist coworker is going to be moved to an assistant role to help out with the need there. they’re planning on hiring a new receptionist and having me train that person. if i leave now, they’ll be ultra short staffed, and no one to train the new receptionist. i don’t know if i should stick it out for longer to avoid creating problems, at least so the new hire is trained so i can leave peacefully. what should I do?

Hello everyone,

I’m a new grad psychologist in my early 30s, but I’ve had a dream since childhood to become a veterinarian. I had the opportunity to work as a vet assistant during my studies, and I’m truly passionate about veterinary medicine even considering its multiple challenges. Now, I’m considering taking the leap and pursuing veterinary school – and I know it sounds all over the place. It feels scary since my partner has always been so supportive of me and I don’t know how they would react. I feel I would be asking too much from them – especially given the sacrifices we’ve made during my PsyD!

Up until now, I’ve just acquired a sense of stability in my personal and financial life. I know it’s not exactly logical to consider taking a path that would shake this stability, but life itself isn’t always logical—and this dream has been with me for so long that I can’t just ignore it without giving it a serious thought.

I also identify as a multipotentialist, meaning I’m someone with a wide range of interests and passions. I love psychology, but I also find deep fulfillment in veterinary medicine - I just love medicine as a whole. I’d love to eventually work part-time as both a veterinarian and a psychologist to maintain what would feel like a balanced work life for me. I’ve saved up enough to cover about 1/3 of tuition fees OOS.

To be transparent, I’m posting this across several subs to gather a variety of perspectives. I’d be incredibly grateful to hear (read) your insights! And please don’t say ‘’you’re a psychologist, you should be able to help yourself’’ haha, not helping ;)

If I’m being wholly honest I’m not sure what to label this post. Somewhere between a venting session and wondering how others might handle my situation.

So I started almost 2 years ago now as a veterinary assistant at small practice. My only field related experience was working as a kennel technician as one of my first jobs. So all of my experience thus far has been hands on and learning from the vet. It’s a 1 Dr. practice with my only coworker being the receptionist. We stay fairly busy considering it’s just 3 of us. I make $15 an hour. Which I I can complain too much about, but there’s no other benefits. I get 5 “vacation days” a year. I’m a single mom….

And being as how it’s just 3 of us. My job is literally anything, everything, and all things in between. Cleaning, inventory, orders, the vast vast majority of clinic duties falls in my lap and then some. And while I love my job, I love this clinic, I don’t believe I’m getting paid fairly with such an in balance of job duties (my co worker gets paid the same as I do). I do dentals, assist with surgeries. Busy days it’s so hard to keep up with tasks like cleaning, and getting dogs out. Next month is dental month, which means I’ll be spending nearly every morning from 8-lunch time with my hands in an animals mouth. While all my other tasks build up and over flow…

If I thought I could get a raise, I’d ask. I don’t necessarily think I’d enjoy a bigger clinic. I’d like to go back to school, but I’m unsure how I could stay in the field and feel like it was the right fit.

Hi I’ve been a ER tech for a little over a year and I had my far share of mistakes. Nothing to major or anything but they will happen either due to lack of confidence and experience or just normal human error. Although I was working the morning shift on ER and the way we have our charts for treatments are hung on the patients cages. We highlight them according to how to doctor wants it every morning. I came in very tired and just off my game (I went in vacation and hadn’t been in work for a week) but I started to highlight charts for treatment. I remember being tired and people talking to be so I wasn’t pay 100% attention. One of the charts I highlighted was my patients chart and o highlighted that he needed diltiazem 7.5mg. So I gave it to him. He had poss CHF and arrhythmias. An hour later the doctor on the case came up to me and asked if I gave that medication an hour ago. I said yes then she showed me I highlighted wrong and that the last dose given was two hours ago. Meaning I gave him 15mg of diltiazem. I just said omg I’m so sorry and o was trying to explain myself but she was angry and stormed off. I was so embarrassed and ashamed of myself. I was on that patients ass all day seeing if he was going hypotensive. He didn’t he was acting normal and even went home later. I was still feeling horrible. I overdose that patient due to my mistake. I tried pushing it aside but the thought kills me. During rounds I had to tell the other nurses about my mistake and they just made fun of me and laughed and rolled their eyes. I mean yes it’s my fault but I don’t know it hurt. Granted those nurses are assholes in general but still. I made sure the dog was ok before o left and he was. I don’t know this haunts me. The way I was careless. The way the doctor scolded me. The way the other nurses look down on me. The error of affecting MY patient negatively. It kills me. I don’t know I wanted to know if this is something to dwell over and if anyone ever made mistakes similar to this. Should I be this hard on myself? Are they in the right to have that reaction? I mean YES now when doing charts I need to focus 100% and not talk to anyone and double check. Now I’m even gonna double check the medication cause I’m so scared now. I don’t know what do you think?

Currently working at a non- profit that does some access to care work/ community medicine (like a GP, but don’t/ shouldn’t manage chronic cases/urgent cases). I’ve gotten comments from my boss and clinic manager that i need to work on my efficiency and that I spend too much time talking to clients. I think they are right, to some degree, I do get stuck talking to clients, especially run on clients. I’m pretty fast at my exam and coming up with a plan, but implementation of my plan can get a little tough with the very limited number of trained assistants we have on staff. While I do want to be more efficient in my client communication, I think that some conversations warrant a little more time. For example, we often get cases that should be going to ER (i.e. down frenchies). I feel like to be thorough and ensure the owner understands the severity of the condition, often times more than a five minute conversation is needed. Any advice on how to streamline conversation and how y’all get things done with limited staff would be much appreciated!! Thanks!

I am a newer vet and I had an incident where a client asked for a refund. However, the clinic already paid me production and the emergency fee on it. My boss is now asking me to cover half the refunded bill and is deducting out of my pay. I didn’t know if this was appropriate? Has anyone had the clinic they work for make them pay back the clinic like this?

Hey all! I would love to apply to Lap of Love as a Veterinary Care Coordinator. I’ve worked in VetMed for 5 years and have also worked for a local hospice as the volunteer coordinator. I think this would be a really great job for the experience I have and what I’m passionate about. I haven’t seen any openings, though and was wondering how often they usually hire this position? Any insight would be appreciated!