1. The Vet ER I worked at 20 years ago had all kinds of equipment donated from local hospitals, from infant incubators for small critical patients, to EKG machines and Pulse Oximeters, Endoscopes, IV supplies and pumps, etc., which now is fairly commonplace (or should be) at many vet practices/clinics.
2. To 'draw a line' between human and animal medicine would be severely limiting to both fields.
3. Also, when I worked at the human hospital, I remember hearing countless stories of nurses intervening in patients treatment, usually involved an error in medication or amounts in the charts.... takes a sharp nurse to catch and verify those kinds of errors.[/QUOTE]
Since I have already clarified my previous posts I will now address the above.
1. It's been 20 years since you worked in a vet office. Medicine is a continually evolving science. You state that you have previous experience but you are 19 years and 364 days out of the loop of to the current trends. Were you a certified Vet Tech? Do you keep your professional credential up to date and current? Do you take continuing ED courses. You keep tossing it out that that you worked in a Vet office and inquiring minds want to know.
There are a lot of different positions and many are on-the-job training like Kennel Attendant and dog walker.
2. I have already addressed this previously
3. Of course it takes a sharp nurse and that is what they are trained to do. But at the same time this does not allow a nurse to sign a HEALTH CERTIFICATE in Veterinary Medicine. I have to ask, when you worked in a hospital what was your profession? Are you a nurse as well? There are plenty of positions in a hospital as well and they are wide ranging from valet to neurosurgeon.