Diego M. Coble
Registered Veterinary Technician, Emergency specialty referral hospitals
Columbus, OH · (757) 555 0154 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/diegomcoble
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years in emergency and critical care after three in general practice
INDUSTRIES
Emergency and specialty referral hospitals, small animal general practice
SPECIALTIES
Triage, anesthesia monitoring, transfusion medicine, blood gas analysis
SYSTEMS
ezyVet, Cornerstone, Idexx VetLab Station, Smartflow treatment boards
CREDENTIALS
Registered Veterinary Technician in Ohio, Veterinary Technician Specialty in emergency and critical care
EDUCATION
Associate of Applied Science in veterinary technology, Columbus State Community College
Executive Summary
Credentialed technician with nine years in a 24 hour emergency and specialty hospital, seven of them overnight. Holds a technician specialty in emergency and critical care. Runs triage, places catheters, monitors anesthesia on unstable patients and keeps the controlled substance log clean enough to hand an inspector.
Signature Achievements
- Brought average time from arrival to triage assessment under two minutes on the overnight shift by rebuilding the intake sheet.
- Monitored anesthesia on more than 400 unstable emergency patients across four years with no anesthetic death on her cases.
- Trained 14 new technicians on jugular catheter placement and blood product administration.
- Built the transfusion record that tracks every unit from donor to recipient, closing a gap found in an internal review.
- Held controlled substance count discrepancies at zero for 18 months as custodian of the log kept for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
- Wrote the sepsis monitoring sheet now used on every critical patient in the intensive care unit.
Professional Experience
Registered Veterinary Technician
Scioto Valley Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center, Columbus, OH 2019 to present
Overnight lead technician in a 24 hour hospital with a six bed intensive care unit and surgery, internal medicine and cardiology services
- Triages arriving emergencies, places intravenous and central lines and starts fluid resuscitation on standing orders.
- Monitors anesthesia for emergency surgery and records depth, blood pressure and capnography every five minutes.
- Runs blood gas, coagulation and packed cell volume testing in the laboratory and calls critical values straight to the clinician.
- Reconciles the controlled substance log at every shift change and prepares the records for inspection.
- Assigns the overnight treatment board in ezyVet and hands off each patient to the day team at seven.
Veterinary Technician
Olentangy Animal Hospital, Dublin, OH 2016 to 2019
Four doctor small animal general practice seeing about 60 patients a day
- Performed dental prophylaxis, charted every tooth and exposed full mouth dental radiographs.
- Induced and monitored anesthesia for routine surgery and recovered patients through extubation.
- Processed fecal flotation, cytology and blood chemistry samples in the practice laboratory.
Licensure and Certification
Registered Veterinary Technician, Ohio Veterinary Medical Licensing Board
Passed the Veterinary Technician National Examination, 2016
Veterinary Technician Specialty in emergency and critical care, 2021
Member, National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America
Education
Associate of Applied Science in veterinary technology, Columbus State Community College, 2016
Core Skills
Triage · Intravenous catheter placement · Anesthesia monitoring · Blood gas analysis · Transfusion medicine · Radiography · Controlled substance recordkeeping · ezyVet · Cornerstone · Technician mentoring