AHE 753 - Veterinary Assistant Training II

3 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to build and expand on the introductory course and further prepare for a job as a veterinarian assistant. Topics to be covered include learning animal restraint, animal nutrition, basic laboratory procedures and parasites. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission and successful completion of Veterinary Assistant Training I.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

demonstrate various animal restraint techniques;
list important aspects of animal nutrition;
demonstrate proper patient education of nutrition;
identify major parasites and their transmission, treatment, prognosis and symptoms; and
demonstrate the proper use of laboratory equipment to include slides and the microscope.