Lab: 20 hours/semester
Skills will be taught and practiced using canine and feline models (including cadavers).
- Patient assessment
- Administration of medications: topical, oral and parenteral injections
- Blood collection and sample handling
- Intravenous and urinary catheters and fluid lines
- Urine collection methods including cystocentesis
- Bandaging
Upon completion of the course, successful students will be able to:
- perform patient assessment skills which may include blood pressure measurement, ECG, tonometry and fluorescein dye test;
- administer medication orally, aurally, topically, subcutaneously, intramuscularly and intravenously to a model or live patient;
- perform venipuncture and prepare a blood sample for shipment to a laboratory;
- place a cephalic intravenous catheter using a limb model;
- set up fluid lines and pumps for the administration of intravenous fluids;
- place a urinary catheter in a male dog model;
- palpate a bladder and perform cystocentesis on a feline or canine model;
- place simple limb bandages.
Assessment will be in accordance with the 黑料吃瓜网曝一区二区 Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester.
This course will use a Mastery-based assessment. Students will receive a Mastery (鈥淢AS鈥) grade based on upon attendance at a minimum of 80% of the scheduled laboratory hours and successful completion of the learning outcomes.
Consult the 黑料吃瓜网曝一区二区 Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks may include:
- Crow and Walshaw. (Current Edition). Manual of Clinical Procedures in Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, and Rodents. J Boyle: Pub Wiley.
Students in the Veterinary Technology program are required to maintain a minimum grade of (C) in all courses, in order to progress in the program.