You see another PTO request sitting on your desk and you are filled with dread. Your veterinary practice is already operating with a bare-bones staff as you struggle to hire qualified candidates, and you certainly do not have extras to cover a colleague’s time off—much-needed time off, you admit. So, how can you manage your …
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5 Key Points to Keep in Mind When Hiring a Relief Vet Hiring a relief veterinarian can be like going on a blind date. You’re not quite sure what to expect, but sharing your thoughts with your date can smooth the path to a successful relationship. When you are looking for the ideal relief veterinarian …
Using Your Veterinary Staff More Effectively Breaking into the veterinary field can be tough. Everyone loves animals, but is a love for all creatures great and small enough to be a successful customer service representative (CSR), technician, or veterinarian? As a practice manager, owner, or lead technician, you are perfectly positioned to build on your …
5 Tools for Building a Positive Practice Culture The secret behind every successful practice is a healthy and positive practice culture. Unfortunately, acquiring this isn’t as easy as updating your software or investing in new equipment. And once you have such a culture, it must be cared for because it grows and evolves with time. …
Change Starts Here—Radical Improvement in Veterinary Medicine Requires Radical Change No matter where you go or where you are, modern veterinary professionals all seem to be saying the same thing: “Everything is so bad right now.” “How much worse can it get?” “We can’t go on like this.” Serious issues affecting professional and personal wellbeing—including …
Crappy Jobs Yield Crappy Results: Pay Your Team to Do the Real Work Because of the staggering shortage of qualified veterinary professionals, operating any veterinary hospital with a fully staffed team devoted to patient and client care is almost impossible. When you consider all the various tasks added to the veterinary team to help with …
5 Reasons Why Hiring the Right People for the Right Job is Essential You wouldn’t hire a veterinarian and expect them to mostly clean the kennels, would you? The same goes for any veterinary team member. By employing credentialed professionals, you are essentially guaranteeing that they will work at the level of their licensing, education, …
5 Ways to Ensure You Leave Work On Time While leaving work a few minutes after your scheduled shift each day may not seem like a big deal, those minutes can add up over time and take a toll on your mental health. Always staying late can severely impact your job satisfaction, and is one …
State Salary Does Not Equal Compensation In general, veterinary professionals are underpaid. While such a blanket statement should normally be avoided, this one unfortunately mostly rings true around the world. From support staff to practice owners, profit margins, salaries, and benefits do not equal the amount of passion, skill, and effort put into veterinary careers. …
Burned Out but Not Down and Out: 5 Ways to Combat Veterinary Burnout Long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, veterinary professionals suffered from burnout, compassion fatigue, and a higher suicide risk than the general public. Living and working through the pandemic has only exacerbated these mental health problems, speeding the rate at which veterinary professionals …
