Addressing the need for veterinary technician licensure
During an interview with dvm360®, Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia), urged that veterinary technician licensing requirements should be more consistent across the US.
In an interview with dvm360®, Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia), shared that a major problem facing the veterinary field is the disparities among states regarding legislation that requires technician licensure. McNerney emphasized that this would increase the value of the skills these credentialed professionals have, plus profit not only technicians but the clinics too.
View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.
Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia): One of the big problems...is that not enough practices utilize credentialed veterinary technicians. Because [in] a lot of states there aren't job-specific or title-protected [regulations] for veterinary technicians in the same regard that there are for human nurses, right? You wouldn't go into a human hospital, and...have someone who may have worked at a coffee shop 2 days ago monitoring your anesthesia, that would never happen. Because there are systems and regulations and standards put into place with human medicine that we do not have in veterinary medicine.
