Practice Management
AAHA’s Veterinary Technician Utilization Toolkit is live
Check out AAHA’s new Veterinary Technician Utilization Toolkit!
Practice Management
Check out AAHA’s new Veterinary Technician Utilization Toolkit!
Clinical
Want to empower your team to respond to your clients’ concerns independently? Read on to learn to “train to your list, test on your training, then let your team loose.”
Culture and People
A clinic whose leadership acknowledges that transitions are part of life and work creates a place where people want to come to work. But transitions can be hard to navigate. This article outlines the three stages of transitions: honor what’s lost, rewrite the “shoulds”/Inner Critic, and look for signs of the new, to help clinics thrive through transition.
Clinical
Culture and People
Meet the 2024 AAHA VTOY honorees, hear their thoughts about the field, and learn what motivates them! AAHA’s VTOY awards are generously supported by Zoetis.
Culture and People
In collaboration with Admired Leadership, check out their article from their Field Notes newsletter, which is a blurb about daily leadership wisdom you can read in about a minute.
Finance
In this competitive environment, there are special offers, seasonal “specials,” and other volume purchase discounts available to your practice. If you play your cards right, these can help clients save money while increasing your profits. But, if not properly taken advantage of, these savings may actually be reducing your practice’s profit.
Client Communication
This year, RECOVER released its first major revisions to its CPR guidelines for basic life support, advanced life support, and monitoring. RECOVER is also the first veterinary organization to use an even more rigorous method known as GRADE.
Culture and People
Based on polls and census figures, the number of LGBTQ+ people in the veterinary profession will increase substantially in the next five to 10 years. This begs the question, should there be more directed mentorship and support for queer ascent in the profession?
Clinical
Veterinary practices need help attracting senior pets into their clinics, and with giving clients useful, practical tips that will allow the seniors (and their caregivers) to have as easy a last chapter in life as possible.