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 …
What Staffing Shortage? How to Hire New Team Members During the Veterinary Staffing Crisis Any time a veterinary practice manager mentions hiring new staff, you likely think to yourself, “Good luck! It’s practically impossible!” In the midst of the ongoing veterinary staffing shortage, it is difficult to find and retain qualified, talented team members. In …
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When “Clean” Isn’t Good Enough: Why the Quality of Clean Matters We’ve all been in unpleasant situations where someone else’s cleanliness standards don’t align with our own. Sometimes, improper cleaning can be irritating, like clumps of fur left on an exam room floor, or trimmed toenails that landed on the computer keyboard and were left …
Suffering from a Veterinary Staffing Shortage? 5 Ways to Share the Workload With the workforce crisis hindering the veterinary industry, it’s tough to find—and retain—good help. Even if you can find a credentialed employee or two to pad your bare-bones team, it may not be enough help to manage your overwhelming caseload. So, what’s a …
