u/Head_Refrigerator611

THEY HAVE A BINGO SHEET IN A DRAWER WITH A SQUARE LABELED "SENIOR PET DIES ON SURGERY TABLE". This bingo sheet has different scenarios within the different squares and they highlight the things that happened on it. The one i mentioned was highlighted. I'm genuinely appalled by this. Like "ope that patients dead. Let's mark it on the BINGO SHEET"

Im not staying with this clinic by the way. I will be leaving as soon as I'm able too.

Hey, I have some questions and concerns about my new veterinary job at a clinic so if you're in VetMed. PLEASE give your opinions.

A few weeks ago I got hired at a veterinary clinic and I've noticed some things that set me off a bit. My first veterinary clinic job was short but I got familiar with the equipment and environment during it.

This new clinic I'm at sedates the patients with a muscular injection for surgeries and that's it. They don't hook them up with a heart montor or intubate them unless they have specific medical issues or are old (which is good at least). We have to watch them very closely to make sure they arent waking up and if they do show signs of waking up, we have to hurry and put them on gas. So, the whole process of prepping them for surgery has to be quick. Alongside all of that, our doctors dont wear sterile garments over their clothes. Just their every day work clothes during surgery. They also reuse sutures. And will someone let me know how sterile soaking surgery instruments in water and chlorahex is compared to an enclave. They don't have an enclave or do surgery packs which is what I was familiar with from my last job.

They have 15 minutes appointment slots which means the assistant/tech and the doctor are rushing through appointments. This puts a lot of stress on me as a newbie because I dont have much time to carefully approach aggressive or scared pets. I'm still new to restraining and handling reactive animals so it puts a lot of stress on me to figure it out in front of clients. It doesnt help that the doctors need me to get stuff done fast. I'm bound to miss stuff and mess things up because this is not routine to me yet. I feel like I've been thrown into the wild to fend for myself lol

Anyway, that was kind of a rant but I also need some advice. I don't really like this clinic but am also thinking that vetmed is just not for me. I don't think I can take the chaos especially if its going to be this way.

What do you guys think of the practices i mentioned and what do you think i should do moving forward? I feel lost at this point and just need to reach out to people who might understand.