Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students

The Fourth Edition of Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students provides standardized assessment criteria for all essential skills required by the American Veterinary Medical Association Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities (AVMA CVTEA®). It covers pharmacologic fundamentals, pharmacy essentials, compliance with state and federal regulations, monitoring of therapeutic responses, ethics, jurisprudence, and communication in veterinary management, husbandry, nutrition, and therapeutics of common domestic species, handling and restraint, patient assessment, and dental procedures in small animals, fundamentals of and experiences with common surgical procedures, patient management and use of anesthetic equipment, proper surgical assistance, pain management, management of surgical equipment and facilities, and perioperative management, diagnostic laboratory procedures and management of laboratory specimens and equipment, parasitology of common domestic species and diagnostic procedures for parasite, microbiologic procedure and evaluations, and necropsy procedures. It is an essential study resource for all undergraduate students enrolled in an AVMA CVTEA accredited veterinary technology program and an excellent teaching resource for instructors of veterinary technology courses.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2024
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Standardized assessment criteria covering all essential skills from the nine areas required by the American Veterinary Medical Association Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities (AVMA CVTEA®) are provided in the newly revised and updated Fourth Edition of Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students. Each essential skill includes assessment criteria and decision-making instructions necessary to demonstrate proficiency both academically and professionally. The text is organized based on the categories provided by the AVMA CVTEA, making it easy for an instructor and students to locate the assessment criteria for a particular essential skill relative to their course. Several guidelines from veterinary organizations regarding standard of care in veterinary medicine have been updated since the publication of the previous edition, including the 2018 A AHA Infection Control, Prevention and Biosecurity Guidelines, the 2022 AAHA Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats, the 2021 AAHA/AAFP Feline Life Stages Guidelines, the 2019 AAHA Canine Life Stages Guidelines, the 2021 AAHA Nutrition and Weight Management Guidelines, the 2023 AAHA Technician Utilization Guidelines, and others. Written by highly qualified authors, Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Technology Students includes assessment criteria that address the knowledge, decision-making capabilities, and hands-on skills for the following: Pharmacologic fundamentals of drug administration, pharmacy essentials of drug dispensing, compliance with state and federal regulation, and monitoring of drug therapy.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 179 x 254 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119909972
Edition number: 4 ed