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While shining a light on the many different areas of the field of veterinary technology, we aim to have thought provoking discussions about the issues facing veterinary technicians and nurses with the leaders in our field.
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Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Happy New Year, Caffeinators! There are episodes of the Vet Tech Cafe that we plan and plan and plan, and there are those that just come together and the conversation flows better than we could've imagined. Our next episode with Teri Kleist, CVT, VTS(Surgery) is more the latter. We "met" Teri two days before we recorded but the conversation was as though we'd known her the duration of our careers! As we aim to spotlight all of the VTS academies, we finally got to talk to Teri with an assist from Heidi Reuss-Lamky. Teri is a past President of NAVTA, has done all sorts of committee and organizational work in our field, but she's also a charter member of the AVST and that's where we focused our discussion. After 40 years, she retired from clinical practice in late 2021, but is still very active. We learned about the formation of AVST, the application process, and what a surgical technician does and we found it all very eye-opening. We know it's cold outside, but it's comfortable in here, we have lots of beverages to warm you up, so let us pour you something great and bring you into the discussion. We think you'll like this one!
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Episode Links:
Academy of Veterinary Surgical Technicians page: https://www.avst-vts.org/
Teri's Surgical Nursing Textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Surgical-Patient-Veterinary-Technicians-Nurses/dp/0470959762
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Mele Kalikimaka, Caffeinators! We hope you're having a wonderful holiday season. We're really excited to bring you our next episode with Sam Geiling, RVT. Sam has accomplished some pretty incredible things in the veterinary technician profession in Hawaii. Since moving there several years ago, she has created the only AVMA-accredited technician program in the state and still teaches there. Additionally, she created, and still works with, the Hawaiian Veterinary Technician Association, HVTA. We chatted with her recently about those endeavors, and also about her current project she's working on getting off the ground called Vet Med Masterminds. She hopes this group will be a means to help bring ideas into action and create meaningful change in the veterinary technician space. You can check out the website and join the Facebook group at the links below, and for our Hawaii Caffeinators, you can click below to visit the HVTA page to become a member today! Aloha!
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Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
In this episode of the Vet Tech Taproom we discuss the American Association of Critical Care Nurses standards for healthy work environments. These are human nurses that came up with this set of standards, but they are very relatable to the veterinary field.
Link to the AACN page: https://www.aacn.org/nursing-excellence/healthy-work-environments
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Our guest today is someone who could be considered a pioneer for many of us in the industry.
Harold Davis, Jr., RVT, VTS (ECC) (Anesth/Analgesia) sat down with us not too long ago and chatted about the development of the first VTS academies for ECC and Anesthesia. He was a charter member for both, and we took a deep dive into the formation of these academies. We wanted to know what the process looked like when there were no Facebook groups in which to communicate, how the process has evolved over the years, and we also wanted to know what the level of support or backlash was. As you can imagine, there was a bit of both. There are a lot of great stories in this one, but also a little bit of a "by looking back, how can we move forward?" flavor as well. Harold is now retired but continues to advocate and champion the profession in many ways. He still actively serves on various boards and committees serving the veterinary industry. This one is not to be missed-we hope you enjoy it!
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Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Nicole Dickerson has been working in the Bay Area as a registered veterinary technician for the last 11 years. Before then, she worked as a free-lance Equity stage manager for theatres such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, and Teatro Zinzanni. After working with cats and dogs in emergency and specialty hospitals for the majority of her career, Nicole recently transitioned into laboratory animal medicine, and now supervises a veterinary technician team through work with multiple species. She serves on the CVMA’s House of Delegates and RVT Committee, has been published in the NAVTA journal, hosts the podcast "Cat Disgusted," and is honored to have traveled to Puerto Rico as a volunteer anesthetist for the Humane Society of the United States’ Spayathon for PR.
We spent some time chatting with Nicole this week about how theater and veterinary medicine parallel. Wondering how that could possibly be?? Give a listen.
To find out more about Nicole and her various interests check out her links below.
Cat Disgusted, a podcast about veterinary technicians and the people and animals who love them.
On SoundCloud, iTunes, and Podbean!
soundcloud.com/catdisgusted
Beryl and Nicole
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Or just search for our channel under "Beryl and Nicole"
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Sunday Nov 14, 2021
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
If you listen to the Vet Tech Cafe podcast, there's a good chance you listen to other veterinary podcasts. If you haven't listened to Internal Medicine for Vet Techs with Jordan Porter, RVT, LVT, VTS(SAIM) and Yvonne Brandenburg, RVT, VTS(SAIM), you should start. Each week, they put out a new episode discussing myriad diseases in the small animal internal medicine world. They interject some great humor and many take home points and concepts for the patients we treat everyday. They've built an incredible online community of fellow med-heads, and after starting their podcast right around the same time we did, we finally got to have them come to the cafe for a cup of coffee and discussion of all things IMFVT. If you're unfamiliar, check out the links below; or better yet, download their podcast on any major podcast platform today! You definitely won't regret it. We've long referred to them as our podcast sisters because we started at the same time and found each other during the development phase of our podcasts and shared ideas and collaborated several different times. This week, we got to shine the spotlight on them and we couldn't be more proud to call them friends and colleagues, or be more proud of what they've built.
If you listen to the episode, Jordan and Yvonne have given our listeners a discount code for their membership services!
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Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Caffeinators, are you ready for the holiday season? Whether you're a Scrooge or a Santa, you need to hear our next episode with Beckie Mossor, RVT. Beckie wears more hats than we can count, including being a veterinary technician program director at the Gurnick Academy, she's one of the brilliant minds behind Vet Team Global Stream, cohosts a weekly podcast with Dr. Ernie Ward called Veterinary Viewfinder, and so much more! But we wanted to check in with her about an incredible venture she started with a Facebook group called the Veterinary Industry Giving Tree. If you haven't heard of it, definitely check out the links below and give this episode a listen because it will give you all the feels and hit you right in the Christmas button. You can get involved with a direct donation, nominate someone in need of some holiday help, or tag them through Amazon Smile to have a portion of any of your holiday purchases through Amazon be donated to their efforts to bring our colleagues who have fallen on hard times some Christmas cheer. Give this episode a listen and just TRY to not get in the Christmas spirit-we dare you! Please check out all the links below to help!
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Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Caffeinators-can you believe we're embarking on our 3rd year of the Vet Tech Cafe? If you've been with us from the beginning, you already know who our next guest is, and why. Liz Hughston is so many things to so many of you, and that's no different for us. Her passion for the field, mentorship, leadership, friendship, and so much more is why we keep coming back to her to start each new year. There are not many of our colleagues in touch with such a wide swath of the profession as Liz, so who better to check in with each year? We went a little off-script with this one-actually, we went without a script! We just had a natural, organic conversation about the state of the profession and different trends or concerns we all have about where we're at and where we're headed, which is the heart and soul of the Vet Tech Cafe. So whether you are Team Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice, or if you ride the Pumpkin Spice Boo Train, take the next stop at the Vet Tech Cafe and join us!
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Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
It's time for another episode of the Vet Tech Taproom! You probably saw the viral post making its way through our circles recently about the increase in pets and patients per staff member through the pandemic, and perhaps saw the article below as well. We spent some time discussing both of these and the importance of knowing where the material that gets posted and shared comes from before sharing. We also look forward to Year 3 of the Vet Tech Cafe as our next episode kicks off the next chapter. If you've been following us for a while, you probably know who our next guest is-you don't want to miss that episode! We're grateful for your support you continue to show us-thank you!
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Sunday Oct 03, 2021
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
When we set out on this adventure that is the Vet Tech Cafe podcast, we had a list of colleagues that we knew we could have insightful conversation about the current and future states of the veterinary technician profession with. We've also had many people reach out to us about their unique facets and outlooks of the profession. This episode is the intersection of both of those, and we are thrilled to finally connect with Karen Roach, RVT, VTS(ECC) at that juncture. Karen has been one of our biggest supporters since we started but also is on the frontline of clinical medicine, and heavily involved in the training and mentorship of the next wave of veterinary technicians. In this episode, we look through the microscope of training veterinary assistants and technicians amid perhaps the greatest staffing crisis our profession has faced. We look at the integral role of ownership and management in that path and examine one way out of our current situation. So come join us for our next episode at the Vet Tech Cafe, where we promise you coffee, or tea, will be made just as you order it!
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