AGV 932 - Vet Technology Internship

1. Evaluate career opportunities related to career goals
   1. Outline your own personal career goals
   2. Investigate career opportunities in veterinarian medicine
2. Appraise ethics in business
   1. Discuss ethics in business with your supervisor
   2. Prepare a list of potential situations that may challenge personal ethics
   3. Predict how you would handle those ethical situations
3. Develop employable skills pertaining to the chosen career direction
   1. Discuss employable skills with your supervisor
   2. Identify employable skills that you want to develop during the internship
   3. Review those skills with your internship supervisor
   4. Practice employable skills selected for the internship
4. Explain the importance of the team concept in the workplace
   1. Develop a diagram of the organization of the business dealing with employee responsibility
   2. Show the relationship between each team member
   3. Review the end results when the team concept doesn’t work
5. Perform proper record keeping and reporting techniques
   1. Develop proper procedure for maintaining client contacts
   2. Inventory all supplies, medicines, materials utilized during daily procedures
   3. Record all animal care procedures in a timely fashion for client review
6. Prioritize with the supervisor desires for additional training opportunities
   1. Schedule weekly meetings with the supervisor for evaluation
   2. Enumerate various training opportunities desired
   3. Construct time schedule for each opportunities in the internship workplace
7. Appraise behaviors of a registered veterinary technician
   1. Reflect on personal and professional actions based on a set of shared core nursing values
   2. Demonstrate transition to the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems
8. Interpret knowledge of animal care across the lifespan
   1. Compare and contrast the role of the technician in meeting the needs of pets across the lifespan
   2. Evaluate the effectiveness of age appropriate animal care
9. Explain the importance of hospice and palliative care
   1. Discuss signs of quality of life in veterinary patients
   2. List clinical signs of pain in veterinary patients
   3. Identify resources for clinic staff and clients for mental health concerns surrounding end of life care