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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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VET 210 - Veterinary Nursing Procedures: Large Animal Care 1 Credits, 1 Contact Hours 1 lecture period 0 lab periods
Veterinary nursing techniques for large animals. Includes restraint procedures; nursing care and behavior of large animals; preventative medicine; nutrition; and large animal medical and surgical procedures. Also includes mentoring techniques; teamwork; communications; and health problem assessment involving kennel management.
Prerequisite(s): Within the last two years:VET 112IN and VET 115IN Corequisite(s): VET 114 , VET 120 , VET 205 , VET 210LB
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding or normal physical examiniation parameters, safety, restraint, handling and cleaning as it pertains to large animal species.
- Identify and understand basic nutrition principles and forages, including common poisonous plants.
- Recognize normal and abnormal reproductive progression in various large animal species.
- Recognize clinical signs of common large animal diseases.
- Describe techniques in medical imaging on large animal species.
Performance Objectives:
- Name and determine normal values for temperature, pulse, respiration, and capillary refill time for large animal species.
- Demonstrate appropriate restraint and safety techniques for handling various large animal species.
- Identify common grains and forages.
- Identify nutritional deficiencies.
- Identify common poisonous plants.
- Recognize normal and abnormal reproductive progression in various large animal species.
- Describe proper procedures for cleaning and disinfecting stalls.
- Recognize clinical signs of common large animal diseases.
- Describe techniques in medical imaging on large animal species.
Outline:
- Recognize Techniques in Physical Examination of Horses and Cows
- Temperature
- Pulse
- Respiration
- Auscultate heart and lungs
- Rectal palpation
- Recognize Techniques to Restrain Large Animals
- Halter
- Tie
- Lead
- Chute
- Identify Common Grains and Forages of Large Animals
- Open range
- Processed
- Nutritional deficiency
- Identify Common Poisonous Plants
- Small animal
- Recognize Equipment used to Medicate Large Animals
- Balling gun - Cow
- Dose syringe
- Horse
- Cow
- Simplex IV set
- Teat dips, infusions
- Reproductive Medicine in Large Animal
- Species specific standards
- Performance of breeding soundness
- Veterinary role in shipped semen and AI
- Dystocia
- Placenta
- Diagnostic Techniques for Large Animal Medicine
- Endoparasite
- Sample collection
- Species involved
- Economics
- Ectoparasites
- Sample collection
- Species involved
- Economics
- Dairy
- Regulations and pharmaceuticals
- Reasons for milk testing
- Methods for milk testing
- Management of the downer cow
- Recognize Techniques to Clean and Disinfect Stalls
- Imaging
- Positioning large animals
- Utilize portable x-ray equipment
- Pre-purchase exam in equine
- Utilize portable ultrasound equipment
Effective Term: Fall 2023
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