{"id":245,"date":"2010-08-17T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=245"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:31:15","slug":"summer-experience-as-a-veterinary-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/08\/17\/summer-experience-as-a-veterinary-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer experience as a veterinary assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stuart Callahan &#8217;11<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><span>GLEN ALLEN, VA&#8211;This summer I worked as a veterinary assistant at Locke A. Taylor D.V.M., Inc. \u00a0In helping with cases throughout the day I performed the tasks of drawing up shots, running blood samples on various machines, preparing and viewing slides on a microscope, taking x-rays and ultrasounds, giving subcutaneous fluids, preparing medications in the pharmacy, and monitoring and caring for animals post-surgery (just to name a few). \u00a0\u00a0I also stood in on many appointments observing the doctor as they would teach me about the different cases we saw each day. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stuart steadying a dog while holding off the vein to allow the insertion of an IV catheter before surgery.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/work.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart steadying a dog while holding off the vein to allow the insertion of an IV catheter before surgery.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stuart Callahan &#8217;11 GLEN ALLEN, VA&#8211;This summer I worked as a veterinary assistant at Locke A. Taylor D.V.M., Inc. \u00a0In helping with cases throughout the day I performed the tasks of drawing up shots, running blood samples on various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/08\/17\/summer-experience-as-a-veterinary-assistant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}