| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Veterinary Technologist |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Collect, prepare, and label samples for laboratory testing, culture, or microscopic examination.
- Provide information and counseling regarding issues such as animal health care, behavior problems, and nutrition.
- Monitor medical supplies and place orders when inventory is low.
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| Veterinarian |
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
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- Research diseases to which animals could be susceptible.
- Examine animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries.
- Operate diagnostic equipment such as radiographic and ultrasound equipment, and interpret the resulting images.
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| Veterinary Assistant |
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
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- Dust, spray, or bathe animals to control insect pests.
- Prepare surgical equipment, and pass instruments and materials to veterinarians during surgical procedures.
- Provide assistance with euthanasia of animals and disposal of corpses.
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