Overnight Emergency Vet Tech - Grow with Expert Team

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous CE allowance

Two paid CE days annually

Mentorship with Board-Certified Vets

Job summary

Dogwood Veterinary Specialty and Emergency is seeking an experienced Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technician in Marietta, GA. You will join a skilled team delivering hands-on care during 12-hour night shifts, handling triage, stabilization, diagnostics, treatments, monitoring, and patient discharge or hospitalization.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of Emergency/ICU or specialty experience, calm under pressure, strong communication, and a passion for emergency medicine.

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, and diagnostics.
• Experience caring for hospitalized or high-acuity patients.
• Calm, organized, decisive under pressure.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work overnight.
• Passion for Emergency and Specialty Veterinary Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on, compassionate care to emergency patients overnight
• Perform emergency triage and patient assessment
• Stabilize and monitor patients with trauma, respiratory distress, toxicity, seizures, pain, and other urgent conditions
• Place IV catheters and collect diagnostic samples
• Administer medications, fluid therapy, and CRIs
• Assist with RECOVER CPR and emergency resuscitation
• Monitor hospitalized and emergency patients during overnight shift
• Maintain accurate electronic medical records
• Assist with emergency procedures and surgeries
• Monitor anesthesia with ECG, pulse oximetry, capnography, blood pressure, and temperature
• Support perioperative care, pain management, and patient recovery
• Communicate changes in patient status promptly
• Partner with Emergency Veterinarians and clinicians
• Maintain clean, organized treatment areas
• Provide shift-to-shift handoffs and client communication

Skills

Emergency expertise

Triage

Patient assessment

Emergency nursing

Overnight shift

Communication

Teamwork

Calm under pressure

Drug calculations

IV catheter placement

CRIs

Anesthesia

Diagnostics

Job description

Dogwood Veterinary Specialty and Emergency is seeking an experienced Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technician in Marietta, GA. You will join a skilled team delivering hands-on care during 12-hour night shifts, handling triage, stabilization, diagnostics, treatments, monitoring, and patient discharge or hospitalization.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of Emergency/ICU or specialty experience, calm under pressure, strong communication, and a passion for emergency medicine.