Introduction to Veterinary Technology
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- Our role
- stand in the way of animal disease and prevent spread to humans
- farm animals
- primary focus 200 years ago
- Practice Acts began
- 75-80 years ago
- World War
- flu epidemic, from animals
- first real antibiotics
- sulfa
- gives state ability to police
- law
- Uniform Practice Act
- allow people of state to control licensed professionals
- Veterinary Practice
- not everything in Uniform Practice in veterinary practice
- living documents
- uniform / veterinary practice acts
- Iowa
- 30 CE requirements over 3 years
- Nebraska
- 16 CE requirements over 2 years
- Immediate supervision
- can put hands in animal during surgery, helping vet - vet is completely involved
- Indirect supervision
- speaking to vet over phone for instruction...client education...cannot diagnose / prognose
- rabies / TB
- vaccinations that cannot be given by tech in small animals
- Assistant
- Nebraska "Vet Tech" name
- Technician
- Iowa "Vet Tech" name
- State Board
- who to speak with about making a course "CE"
- AAVSB
- American Association of Veterinary State Board
- animal welfare
- things animal requires based on species, environment, owner...well-being
- laws
- set forth to protect people - not necissarliy animals
- AMDUCA
- Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act - food animals, what drugs can be used in consumption animals
- AWA
- Animal Welfare Act - kennel sizes, amount of time outside, covers anything warm-blooded
- 1985
- Food Security Act began
- lobbyists
- change laws