AGV 266 - Adv Veterinary Nursing Care

1. Demonstrate understanding of advanced nursing procedures
   1. Place a stomach tube
   2. Discuss gastric lavage
   3. Administer enemas
2. Implement appropriate fluid therapy
   1. Determine/maintain fluid infusion rate
   2. Monitor patient hydration status
   3. Review and practice IV catheter placement
3. Illustrate critical care procedures
   1. Understand how to maintain chest, tracheostomy and pharyngeostomy tubes
   2. Discuss central venous pressures
   3. Demonstrate ability to take a diagnostic ECG
   4. Understand types of feeding tubes and their maintenance
4. Prepare a patient for sedation or anesthesia
   1. Operate anesthetic machine
   2. Monitor the sedated or anesthetized patient
   3. Place simple sutures
5. Perform preparation of samples for shipping
   1. Understand how to handle a rabies suspect specimen
   2. Follow accepted methods of sample preparation for shipping pathogenic samples