Clinical
It’s hard enough to make our own exercise routines work, so how can we get pets moving? Martha G. Cline, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition), chair of the 2021 AAHA Nutrition and Weight-Loss Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats, touts the benefits of staying active for pets, including longer life spans and fewer health problems.
Practice Management
Refresh your practice’s brand and marketing strategy to ring in the New Year with helpful hints from Danielle Lambert, founder of Snout School.
Culture and Wellbeing
Recovering from the holidays while kicking off a new year at a veterinary practice can be a daunting task. Practice owner Jenn Galvin offers some encouragement.
Clinical
We dig into a CPR refresher from the Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation (RECOVER) initiative in this brief overview. Look for newly revised CPR guidelines from RECOVER in 2024 to help ensure that all practices have the training to save lives.
How accessible is your practice to older clients and people with disabilities? ADA compliance, larger fonts on written materials, and even bigger pens can help.
By removing noncompete clauses from DVM contracts at its 46 veterinary clinics and other facilities, Destination Pet hopes to create great workplace environments that entice DVMs to stay, rather than making it legally harder for them to leave.
Paid time off, better working conditions, and pay transparency were on the table in the two-year negotiations to ratify the first contract for the ACAH Alliance, only the second employee union at a US animal hospital.
AAHA surveyed nearly 15,000 veterinary professionals and learned that 30% plan to leave their current job within the coming year. What might make them want to stay? It starts with the right goals.
Not everyone loves the night shift, but Morgan Rodgers, BS, CVT, says it’s a special time that “fosters an unparalleled sense of camaraderie” and “necessitates a high level of reliance on each other.”
