ICU Critical Care Veterinary Technician — Overnight

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

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.