The Vet Tech Shortage
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Veterinary Technicians are a crucial part of pet care teams. One vet tech to one veterinarian is not nearly enough!
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Wonder if it's similar to the "nursing shortage" there is NOT a shortage of nurses/CNAs. There is a shortage of nurses/CNAs who are willing to work for crap pay with an increasingly unmanageable workload.
The average pay rates for vet techs (even those who hold an associate degree) is ridiculously low.
I am a CNA. The max our career lasts is 6 months. I made it 7 months. Low pay and lots of drama. $15 an hour isn't gonna make it.
@@richardmossy5540I got paid $22 an hour as a CNA and even I gave up after a year of working in that environment. So much drama, so many understaffed shifts where I was the only caretaker for 60 patients at once. There wasn’t even time to change everyone’s briefs every 2 hours like required, let alone the 100 other things that needed to be done
The job is physically and mentally hell for the laughable pay. If it's between getting screamed at for not cleaning poop off the ground quick enough while also caring for 13 other patients half of whom activly trying to die and flipping burgers then people are going to choose flipping burgers. Same pay, infantly less stress and risk of being litterally mauled
I was a vet tech over 25 years ago. I was there almost a year. I was grossly underpaid but had the same responsibility and duties of most of the veterinarians and head nurses. I was thrown in the deep end with very little training and then given hell when I wasn't getting something right away. I had begun my first semester in Animal Sciences in college when I got the job. The head nurse was evil: hated me because I was hired over her friend's daughter, so she made my work life difficult. She was able to fire me because 2 things happened in one day: 1. a gang member brought in a Korean Jindo (first time I ever heard of these dogs) who'd been sliced down his back by another gang member. We couldn't keep a muzzle on him, the vet refused to touch him, the head nurse refused to touch him, but they expected ME to restrain him alone with the owner. Owner didn't want to pay for a tranq. I refused to do so without her and the vet's help. 2. My handicapped brother called work to tell me my grandmother was brought to the hospital and the cow that took the call imitated my brother's stutter when she gave me the message (an hour after he called). I ripped loose on her, which gave head nurse the ammo to fire me. I wouldn't have lasted much longer though- we saw A LOT of neglect and abuse cases that we couldn't do anything about per the law (we were on the phone with the local pd a lot). It sickened me to release these animals back to their owners. One of the worst was a St. Bernard brought in with a 107.2 (no lie) temp and maggots crawling out of his butt and from a hot spot on the top of his rump. The vet on duty paid for most treatment out of pocket because the owners were awful. (too bad they couldn't be made to suffer the same.) We were debating saying we couldn't save the dog but if they wanted to see his remains for whatever reason, we'd have been caught in the lie. The vet called our friends at the local pd but because the dog wasn't starved or presented with actual trauma wounds, we had to return him to them. Several examples of things like that...fighting dogs, abandoned animals...yeah I couldn't take much more. But the workplace abuse and crap pay made it very easy to not go back into the vet's office again as a job.
I don't know what I was thinking you ask but in Canada we treat them like garbage