ICU Grave Assistant

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Pet Vet Care Centers' Pacific and Santa Cruz Veterinary Specialists is currently seeking an ICU Grave Assistant to join their team!

At Pet Vet Care Centers, our mission is to improve the lives of animals and people — providing exceptional and compassionate care at every stage — for all the moments that matter.

Because life is better with pets.

We deliver the Ultimate Care Experience — every pet, every client, every time. That starts with a Culture of Care that supports our team members as much as the pets and clients we serve.

With more than 420 locally led hospitals and over 11,000 team members nationwide
, we offer:

• Local autonomy with national support
• Career mobility and development opportunities
• A collaborative, inclusive environment where your wellbeing comes first

You care for pets. We care for you.

Intensive Care Unit assistants are under the direct guidance and supervision of the ICU tech and doctor. Incumbents of this position are required to assist the practitioners and ICU tech to the fullest possible extent, to help improve the quality of care given to the patients of Pacific and Santa Cruz Veterinary Specialists and to aid the practitioners in achieving greater efficiency by relieving them of technical work and administrative detail.

The ICU assistant assists the technicians, doctors, and CSR in all duties of the ICU. The responsibilities vary with current needs of the hospital staff, the season of the year, and the individual abilities demonstrated by the employee.

The ICU assistants primary duties are to assist with all cleaning and stocking of the ICU to provide optimal support to the technicians and flow of the room. They are also to assist the ICU technician with patient treatments and tasks when trained and approved in this area. It is imperative that the ICU assistant is available to the ICU technician or doctor with the examinations and treatments of the ICU patients.

Assistants in this practice will be taught and trained to the limits of their potential. If, during training, an individual shows interest in a specific field, such as radiology or anesthesiology, continuing education in that field will be encouraged. Such encouragement may be in the form of a subsidy for taking outside courses or formal training given in the practice.

The ICU tech will use every appropriate opportunity to continue the training and advancement of the ICU assistants. When able the ICU tech will perform treatments with the assistant to help them grow and learn a new skill set.

ICU Priorities:
Making sure that ICU stays a smooth and fully functioning room. This includes but is not limited to stocking syringes, needles, catheters, IVF supplies, bandage material, foods (wet/dry/treats), thermometer probes, paper towels, lab supplies, laundry, pee pads, and medications. Taking out the trash/recycling. Changing patients bedding and litter pans. Monitor and refill water bowls. Feeding patients as directed by the ICU nurse in charge.

Walking patients outside. IV fluid totals at 8/12/4. Sweeping and mopping all ICU floors. Wiping down counter tops/shelves/fluid pumps. Completing the daily check off list along with the ICU nurse on shift.

• Animals:
  Ability to restrain for procedures performed by technicians or doctors, knowledge of common diseases, their symptoms and means of transmission, administration of oral medications, assessment of change in animal status. Care for the comfort of the patient including walking, changing bedding, feeding, and watering.
• Diagnostics:
  Performance of in-house laboratory tests, completion of forms for outhouse laboratory, filing of laboratory reports and clean-up of laboratory area. Performing radiographs on ICU patients when treatment is unable to perform them in a timely manner.
• Assisting:
  Animal restraint, TPRs (when authorized), medication administration, filling prescriptions, and entering charges (ICU lead to determine when the charge training will happen for all assistants), set up for simple procedures or treatments, assist with Dr examinations and anticipate the…