| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Veterinary Assistant |
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
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- Monitor animals' recovering from surgery and notify veterinarians of any unusual changes or symptoms.
- Examine animals to detect behavioral changes or clinical symptoms that could indicate illness or injury.
- Exercise animals, and provide them with companionship.
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| Veterinarian |
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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- Determine the effects of drug therapies, antibiotics, or new surgical techniques by testing them on animals.
- Conduct postmortem studies and analyses to determine the causes of animals' deaths.
- Establish and conduct quarantine and testing procedures that prevent the spread of diseases to other animals or to humans, and that comply with applicable government regulations.
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| Veterinary Technologist |
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
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- Monitor medical supplies and place orders when inventory is low.
- Perform dental work such as cleaning, polishing, and extracting teeth.
- Clean and sterilize instruments, equipment, and materials.
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