Registered Veterinary Technicians are highly educated and trained professionals working as membersof the veterinary healthcare team. Their education provides them with the theory and practical skills essential to deliver a gold standard of veterinary care. Some areas of their expertise include:
- Performing and processing diagnostic x-rays
- Collecting samples and performing diagnostic laboratory tests for the purposes of hematology, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis, and fecal testing.
- Emergency and first aid
- Administration and dispensing of medications and treatments as prescribed by the attending veterinarian
- Anaesthetic administration and monitoring
- Nutrition management
- Animal behaviour and welfare
- Professional practice administration, management and client relations
- Public education
- Providing optimum housing, husbandry, restraint and handling
- Sanitation, sterilization and disinfection controls and procedures
- In depth knowledge of dental structures, conditions and lesions, causes and stages of diseases
- Surgical preparation and assistance
- Microbiology, immunology, bacteriology, parasitology, and virology
