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CHAPTER 10

Management of Hospitalized

and Boarding Pets

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Provide appropriate environment for hospitalized patients
• Care for recumbent patients, including administering enemas
• Provide appropriate exercise for hospitalized and boarding pets
• Execute appropriate socialization for hospitalized and boarding pets
• Follow veterinary prescribe treatment plans
• Understand how diseases enter the body
• Assist with in‐hospital patient care including bathing and dipping
• Accurately obtain vital signs, body conditioning scores, and weights
• Determine the well‐being of patients and recognize signs of pain
• Properly collect, label, and store voluntary urine and fecal samples
• Assist with euthanasia and recognize signs of grief in co‐workers

NAVTA ESSENTIAL SKILLS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER
V. Small Animal Nursing (Large Animal Nursing – Optional)
A. Safety concerns
2. Utilize patient and personnel safety measures
B. Animal care
1. Provide routine record‐keeping, and observation of hospitalized
patients, i.e. stress importance of notations made when cleaning
and feeding
2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of:
b. common diseases
c. common medical conditions
6. Demonstrate understanding of a treatment plan

Tasks for the Veterinary Assistant, Fourth Edition. Teresa F. Sonsthagen.
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