Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates should be able to:
- Safely and effectively handle and provide care for laboratory, avian, and exotic animals
- Demonstrate competence in veterinary facility management, utilizing appropriate professional and client communication skills and maintaining ethical standards according to applicable laws and codes of the veterinary technology field.
- Exhibit a technical level of competency in the safe and effective preparation, administration, and dispensation of medications (including controlled drugs) using proper dosage calculations, labeling, and record-keeping.
- Demonstrate entry-level skills in patient nursing care for both companion and food animals including husbandry; nutrition; restraint techniques; patient data and sample collection; administration of therapeutics; and basic dental prophylaxis.
- Safely and effectively manage patients and the associated equipment in all phases of anesthetic procedures.
- Integrate all aspects of patient, environment, and equipment management for common surgical procedures in a variety of animal species
- Handle, store, ship, and properly analyze laboratory specimens
- Safely and effectively produce diagnostic radiographic and non-radiographic images as well as operate and maintain the associated equipment
