Communication tools for the veterinary team - Firstline
  • SEARCH:
Team Center
Firstline Featuring Information from:

ADVERTISEMENT

Team Communication
Source: FIRSTLINE

Feeling fenced in at your veterinary practice?

May 1, 2013

Understand your workplace rights—whether you're a veterinary team member or manager—in four lessons from top employment attorneys.

Source: FIRSTLINE

Use laminated pictures to save steps in your veterinary practice

May 1, 2013

Our kennel technicians would spend time running back and forth between our food display and food room, and they would often forget what they went back to the food room to get.

Source: FIRSTLINE

Oh, baby! 8 risks to avoid in your veterinary practice during pregnancy

May 1, 2013

Whether you're expecting or you work with someone who is—or might one day—review this list of risks in veterinary practice and plan how to keep everyone in the workplace safe.

Source: FIRSTLINE

Dog bite prevention: What's your role in the veterinary practice?

May 1, 2013

You can handle their bark, but you don't want a bite. Firstline Board member Mandy Stevenson, RVT, offers tips for how each team member can stay safe in practice:

Source: FIRSTLINE

Dental corner: Correcting a congenital cleft palate in your veterinary practice

May 1, 2013

This veterinary hospital team works together to rid a Rhodesian ridgeback of a congenital cleft palate.

Source: FIRSTLINE

How to support pregnant co-workers in veterinary practice

May 1, 2013

Use this advice to help out your veterinary practice's super-mommies-to-be.

Source: FIRSTLINE

10-minute drill: parasite prevention

May 1, 2013

These three game-winning plays will take your veterinary team members through their paces with activities to refresh your parasite prevention skills and educate clients.

Source: FIRSTLINE

Ask Shawn: Shine light on a moonlighter

May 1, 2013

For the past few years, our veterinary practice's kennel business has been declining. I recently learned that an employee pet-sits for clients on the side. The other day a client approached me in an exam room asking if I was the employee who offered pet sitting. When I told him we board pets at the clinic, he said, "Oh dear, I hope I don't get someone in trouble." In fact, the moonlighting employee gave him a tour of our kennel just last week. I realize some people want a more personal approach, but the fact that the pet sitting is a secret going on behind the owner's back bothers me. Help! —Blindsided by boarding

Source: FIRSTLINE

Eliminate gossip in the veterinary clinic

April 26, 2013

Clamp down on this culture killer.

ADVERTISEMENT

Click here