Practice Management

Help clients understand the need for preventive pet dental care with this easy tip.

Use your social media network to educate clients and raise awareness about the importance of diagnostics with these tweets and posts.

Leverage the awareness about dental care in February and rally around preventive dental care in your practice with these simple suggestions.

Behavior, performance, and discipline problems just don't come across in email and text messages. Remind your manager (or yourself) that difficult conversations need to be face to face.

Q: How many pets per team member does our practice need to pay for?

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, all veterinary practice owners should make disaster plans a priority, expert says.

Here's a quick and easy way to organize feeding tubes and urinary catheters.

Use the exam room lights to indicate if the room is clean and ready to go.

Unlock your potential in the veterinary practice with communication that elevates the service you offer-and makes heartfelt connections with the clients you serve.

Q: We've been through two managers in the past two years, and our team morale is beginning to fizzle out. The practice owner is always out on farm calls, and several associates arrive late and leave early. Some of the other team members are following their bad habits. How can we stay focused when there's no leadership?

Clashes between veterinary colleagues are part of human nature-but when do they cross the line?

Keep veterinary team drama at bay with some simple tips from Shawn McVey.

Don't let fear of failure or change stand in the way of your practice's success. Get everyone on board by building a stronger sense of purpose.

Too many felines are surrendered to animal shelters or abandoned. A new survey checks in on animal shelters, rescue groups, and veterinarians to find new ways they can work together.

Use these four steps to help inspire your veterinary staff.

Consider orientation and sunlight when choosing a site.

View a photo gallery for a canine craniectomy and titanium mesh installation.

It can be too easy to hire who you like personally instead of the person who's most qualified for the job.

Study the dos and don'ts of veterinary client communication.

Give receptionists this comprehensive wellness checklist to review veterinary services with clients.

Protect your portable Doppler with this easy trick.

Give small patients a comfortable, stress-free place to rest.