Critical Care Veterinary Technician

Innovetive Petcare; Marietta (GA); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Dogwood Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Hospital in Marietta, Georgia is seeking an experienced Critical Care Veterinary Technician/ICU Technician to join our high-acuity team. The role focuses on caring for critically ill, hospitalized, and emergency patients with overnight shifts.

You will collaborate with five Board-Certified Criticalists, Emergency Veterinarians, and specialty clinicians to advance your Critical Care skills and patient care competencies.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Emergency, ICU, Urgent Care, or Specialty Veterinary experience
• Strong triage, patient assessment, and emergency nursing skills
• Proficiency with drug calculations, CRIs, anesthesia, IV catheter placement

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous monitoring and nursing care for critically ill and hospitalized patients
• Perform frequent patient assessments and recognize changes in condition
• Administer medications, CRIs, fluid therapy, blood products, and other prescribed treatments
• Manage IV catheters, fluid therapy, urinary catheters, drains, and other patient-care needs
• Monitor fluid balance, urine output, pain, temperature, respiratory status, and patient trends
• Support nutritional management and comprehensive ICU nursing
• Provide compassionate, patient-centered care throughout hospitalization
• Monitor patients using ECG, capnography, pulse oximetry, blood pressure, and temperature
• Monitor oxygen therapy, transfusions, CRIs, and other continuous therapies
• Assist with advanced critical care procedures under clinician direction
• Provide perioperative and postoperative monitoring for high-acuity patients
• Support pain management and ongoing treatment plans
• Maintain accurate treatment records and medical documentation
• Perform and process in-house laboratory diagnostics
• Collect and properly handle blood and other diagnostic samples
• Assist with digital radiography, ultrasound, and other diagnostic procedures
• Prepare and monitor critically ill patients during diagnostic procedures
• Track laboratory and diagnostic results and communicate significant changes
• Maintain organized treatment areas and ensure equipment and supplies are ready for patient care

Skills

Emergency ICU experience

Triage and patient assessment

Emergency nursing

Drug calculations

CRIs

Anesthesia

IV catheter placement

Job description

Critical Care Veterinary Technician

Department: Veterinary Technicians

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Marietta, Georgia

Compensation: $18.00 - $38.00 / hour

Description

Dogwood Veterinary Specialty and Emergency is seeking an experienced Critical Care Veterinary Technician / ICU Veterinary Technician to join our specialty and emergency hospital in Marietta, Georgia.

If you thrive in a high-acuity environment, enjoy complex patient care, and want to advance your skills alongside five Board-Certified Criticalists, Emergency Veterinarians, and specialty clinicians, this is an opportunity to take your veterinary career further.

This is not an entry-level opportunity. We're looking for experienced veterinary technicians who are confident caring for critically ill, hospitalized, emergency, ICU, and specialty patients and who can work effectively and independently on overnight shifts.

Why Dogwood?

At Dogwood, veterinary technicians are essential clinical partners in patient care.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Practice alongside five Board-Certified Criticalists
• Care for complex ICU, emergency, medical, surgical, and specialty patients
• Develop advanced Critical Care and ICU nursing skills
• Manage complex treatment plans and continuous therapies
• Utilize advanced monitoring and diagnostic equipment
• Collaborate directly with Criticalists, Emergency Veterinarians, and specialty clinicians
• Receive mentorship and support for continued clinical development
• Build a long-term career in Emergency, Critical Care, and Specialty Veterinary Medicine

What You'll Do

As a Critical Care Veterinary Technician, you'll provide hands‑on nursing care for patients requiring intensive monitoring, frequent reassessment, and ongoing medical support.

• Provide continuous monitoring and nursing care for critically ill and hospitalized patients
• Perform frequent patient assessments and recognize changes in condition
• Administer medications, CRIs, fluid therapy, blood products, and other prescribed treatments
• Manage IV catheters, fluid therapy, urinary catheters, drains, and other patient‑care needs
• Monitor fluid balance, urine output, pain, temperature, respiratory status, and patient trends
• Support nutritional management and comprehensive ICU nursing
• Provide compassionate, patient‑centered care throughout hospitalization

• Monitor patients using ECG, capnography, pulse oximetry, blood pressure, and temperature
• Monitor oxygen therapy, transfusions, CRIs, and other continuous therapies
• Assist with advanced critical care procedures under clinician direction
• Provide perioperative and postoperative monitoring for high-acuity patients
• Support pain management and ongoing treatment plans
• Maintain accurate treatment records and medical documentation

• Perform and process in-house laboratory diagnostics
• Collect and properly handle blood and other diagnostic samples
• Assist with digital radiography, ultrasound, and other diagnostic procedures
• Prepare and monitor critically ill patients during diagnostic procedures
• Track laboratory and diagnostic results and communicate significant changes
• Maintain organized treatment areas and ensure equipment and supplies are ready for patient care

Critical Care requires constant communication, attention to detail, and strong clinical judgment.

You’ll work closely with:

• Board-Certified Criticalists
• Emergency Veterinarians
• Specialty clinicians
• Veterinary Technicians and Veterinary Assistants
• The broader patient care team

You’ll provide thorough shift-to-shift handoffs, communicate treatment updates, advocate for your patients, and help maintain continuity of care throughout hospitalization.

In Critical Care, the details matter and so does the technician caring for the patient.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Emergency, ICU, Urgent Care, or Specialty Veterinary experience
• Strong triage, patient assessment, and emergency nursing skills
• Proficiency with:
  • Drug calculations
  • CRIs
  • Anesthesia
  • IV catheter placement
  • Ven