Roles

Walk off your stressand give a pooch a chance to stretch her legs.

Watch as Tasha McNerney talks with Kenichiro Yagi about his career path from introvert to national speaker.

Be creative in delegating, rethinking and streamlining veterinary practice tasks that too often bring you to a halt.

Help clients do the best they can for their pets.

When pet owners struggle with the choice of deciding when it's time to euthanize, suggest this exercise.

Here that? It's silence in your veterinary reception area. And it's one of the worst sounds in the world. Here's how one team uses wellness plans to bring life back to their practice.

Team grateful for community support as it cares for animals in need.

Heres a cats-eye-view of a feline fine exam where the cat gets the power to choose how he experiences a visit to the veterinarian.

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Provide clients with a pet food ingredient cheat sheet to better understand what's in their pets' food.

Helping pet owners decipher the often confusing marketing and labeling of pet foods may prevent them from making well meaning, but uneducated nutritional choices in the store aisle.

"Help clients who make the difficult choice to euthanize their pet by approaching the associated costs with sincere consideration," says Sharon DeNayer, a Firstline Editorial Advisory Board member and the clinic manager at Windsor Veterinary Clinic in Windsor, Colo.

With high debt and low salaries, investing in a veterinary education has a poor return on investment.

Emotional intelligence distinguishes great receptionists from OK front desk workers, says veterinary hospital veteran Bob Gauthier.

We dare you not to cry at this story. Its one of a million reminders every day that veterinarians have to charge for their services to keep the doors opens, but very few are in it for the money.

Left to her own devices, CC the Clinic Cat finds new ways to disrupt your work day.

Begin and maintain this systems philosophy to make your veterinary practice more productive and efficient.

Simple practice policy may not protect you from employees out to damage your veterinary business.

Clients who cant afford to pay for their pets care ranks as team members No. 2 frustration at work, according to the 2013 Firstline Veterinary Team Trends Study. (No. 1 is team members pay and benefitsno surprise there, right?) Some veterinary teams are recommending pet insurance to help pet owners plan for their pets veterinary care.

Recognizing your VIPs-Very Important Pets-with a VIP greeting is a great way to connect with clients from the minute they step into your veterinary practice.

Join us in San Diego to get experts' adviceand a serious dose of inspiration. And, in the meantime, arm your team with the tips on the dvm360 Fear Free center, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, Ceva, and Elanco.

Veterinary practice managers, use this quick quiz from the VHMA to check your role in managing the money at your practice. (Psst. You can also ask your practice owners to take the quiz to remind them of the valuable financial skills you can bring to the table.)

Host of Coffee on the Couch and creator of Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds on Facebook comes clean about how she took control of her career in veterinary medicine.

This virtual dictionary defines some of the common terms, symptoms and diagnoses in the veterinary profession.

Check out this common client question, then use the answer below to customize your own response that gently educates pet owners.

When you give the veterinary profession all youve got, it can be exhausting if you dont feel like its making a difference. I didnt realize the depths of what I was feeling until the symptoms hit.

When I turned 70 in 2011, people started asking me if I was going to retire. Now that I am 73, friends ask when Im going to retire.