This is Ilene, one of our evening nurses. She's worked here at Rau for 8 years, and has clinic nurse duties as well as OR tech discharge duties. She's such an amazing part of our team, and we are so happy that she has passed her CVT (Certified Veterinary Technician) exam!
Ilene started on this journey about 5 years ago by enrolling in a distance learning course sponsored by AAHA, through
Besides studying, Ilene had many hands-on tasks that needed to be completed. She worked with the veterinarians and nurses here, and traveled to
Many of her small animal hands-on duties were typical of things that she already does, such as drawing blood, bandaging limbs, restraint, xrays and placing IV catheters.
Others were a new experience:
- Placing endotracheal tubes in dogs and cats
- Placing urinary catheters
- Monitoring during anesthesia
Some of the things she had to go to
- Restraint & drawing blood from a goat
- Bandaging, Xraying, obtaining heart rate, drawing blood and giving an injection to a horse
- Injecting, obtaining blood from 2 different places and administering oral meds to a cow
As well as completing all these hands on assignments, she took all of her testing online, graduated from her course at the college, sat for the exam and gained her CVT license. It's been a long road for her, and we could not be more proud.
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