Open Blog Post

I've chosen for my open blog post this week about a different field of veterinary medicine. The veterinarian technician, or commonly called vet tech, is like the nurse of the animal field. When you were a little kid and you dreamed of becoming a vet, this is what you most likely imagined. Vet techs are the ones who generally care for the animal when it comes to the office, they figure out what is wrong with your pet, they feed it, nurture it, and do almost everything for it. The only three things that a vet tech cannot legally do it, prescribe medicine, diagnose the animal, or do any kind of surgery. However, they can FILL the prescriptions, they can be the circulating nurses for the surgery, and they can care for the animal after the vet diagnoses and describes the care needed.
To become a LVT, or licensed vet tech, you need a bachelor of science degree, graduate from a vet tech program certified by the AVMA, and completed general education courses at a university.