Year’s End
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Hello all!
Well it has been an exciting end to the 1st year of my journey and though at times seeming impossible to complete, I have done it! This year has been so amazing as i’m sure I have mentioned many times prior, but it is the only way to begin to describe my experience. I have gone from basic animal handling to at year’s end performing a surgical procedure on a cow ( eye enucleation). I have worked with many different animals such as llamas, horses, goats, pigs, cats, dogs and even mice at NASA! I have worked at two different animal hospitals and met many intelligent, sweet people. My final semester courses were pretty difficult but very informative and knowlede filled as well, we had learned how to perform many different laboratory tests, laboratory protocol/procedures as well as learning how to interpret our findings. Our instructors had taught us tons on parasitology, hematology, and urinalysis, we also learned about blood chemisty and chemical testing procedures, blood machines and result interpretation. This past semester had also included a surgical nursing prep class, we had learned about surgical nursing procedures such as gowning, gloving and surgical scrubbing not to mention the protocol for preparing your doctor ( yes, preparing your doctor! ). We had also begun learning the many different surgical instruments, their uses, proper care and how to properly do surgical pack wrapping. On the other hand this year was also very important for “The Vet Tech Club”, at year’s end we had met our new freshmen and had to begin learning how to run a highly recognized club which itself was a big challenge. We had elected our new club representatives and have begun to get our hands dirty, let’s just say you’ll be hearing about us! This year has much more to offer in so many ways, I have begun my first week of my final year and it has already been beyond my expectations. This semester we are studying surgical nursing, pharmacology, and more clinical pathology so stay tuned for year 2 !!!!
-kim