Rebecca Rose, CVT

Equilibrium is a conscious choice.

In previous blogs, you read about passionate filled careers and high turnover. Yes, the veterinary community has both and somewhere in the middle is a balance, or equilibrium, a career that is gratifying, rewarding and sustainable.

You may know colleagues who have found that place of equilibrium, whose life is full of gratitude and abundance. They seem to bounce back, with an outlook of the perceived disappointment or set-back as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. How do they do that? What allows them to see every dark cloud with a silver lining? Do they live in a “Polly Anna world?” I think not, their focus may simply be on learning and experiencing.

Following may be a few tips to help you get to that point of equilibrium; maybe one or two tips will resonate with you. Continue reading →

My experience with compassion fatigue, a bit of an epiphany. What is your experience?

You may be aware in other industries the average annual turnover is 13-15%. In the veterinary community it is an ALARMING 29%, nearly DOUBLED! In my view, lack of understanding and under diagnosing compassion fatigue is a driver for the high turnover. Continue reading →

It Can Be an Ehical Dilemma, as it appears in the ColoVMA VOICE, 2013 Issue #2

Rebecca Rose, CVT

Your veterinary technicians, your team members who have graduated

from an AVMA-accredited program, are not taught how to

perform a veterinary dental extraction while in college. In one of

the textbooks for veterinary technician programs, Principles and

Practices of Veterinary Technology, the sentence related to dental extractions

states this: “Most states consider extractions oral surgery

that must be performed by the veterinarian.” Continue reading →

Updated Version available July 25th, 2013!

Dr. Carin Smith and Rebecca

Hard to believe, over four years ago Dr. Carin Smith and I completed Career Choices for Veterinary Technicians; Opportunities for Animal Lovers. Now, we have an updated version available from AAHA Press the end of July!

The newer version includes updated statistics, added a few new opportunities, improved format and more!

Thank you, Carin, for being such a great crafting partner! It has been a pleasure working with AAHA, again, in this capacity.

2009 book signing with Dr. Mike Jobin

For those of you who know me, YES, we will have another Social Event! All 100+ veterinary technicians, veterinarians and industry leaders mentioned or quoted in the book will be be invited. Attached are a few photos from the last event held in Denver in the summer of 2009.

If we play our cards right, maybe Sheila and Mark can join us again at this year’s Social Event.

Dear friends, Sherrie and Denise, always supporting and guiding.