Join this month’s Think Anesthesia Live webinar for an organic discussion on diversity, equality, and inclusion in the veterinary profession. Our focus is to acknowledge the past, own the present and identify solutions for our future. Our expert guests include Stephen Cital , Nikkia Starks , Floyd Williams , and Melody Martinez . Cynthia Merritt, US Business Director for Jurox, now a part of Zoetis will moderate this session tackling topics including but not limited to, minority representation, rate of demographic change, reaching underrepresented communities, gender and minority pay gap. Audience participation and engage will be fully supported. Join, listen, share, and move our profession forward. This will be recorded for on-demand viewing. Currently, the panelist discussion is not RACE approved for continued education. Certificates of attendance will be issued.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.thinkanesthesia.education/live-webinar/2023/02/past-present-future-of-the-veterinary-profession-dei-panelist-discussion

Veterinary Technicians are an essential part of the veterinary healthcare team.  Currently, technicians are in high demand and short supply with demand expected to grow exponentially over the next several years. During this presentation we will discuss the scope of practice for veterinary technicians and the difference between veterinary assistants and technicians. Attendees will learn where to find and interpret the practice act & rules of their state. Proper utilization of professional veterinary technicians can help mitigate the veterinary shortage as well as increase practice revenue and efficiency.

During this presentation, attendees will learn:

• about the veterinary technician profession, title and the need for title protection
• about state practice acts and rules governing veterinary technicians
• scope of practice for veterinary technicians – what can they do, what should they do?
• ways to maximize technician utilization
• how utilization of technicians can help mitigate the veterinarian shortage.
• how utilization of technicians can increase practice revenue and efficiency

This webinar is FREE for all attendees. 1.5 hours of RACE CE credits (non-medical) will be available for HSVMA members only (pending RACE approval).

Presenter: Leslie Wereszczak, MS, LVMT, VTS (ECC)

Leslie has been a credentialed veterinary technician for over 30 years.  After graduating from the veterinary technology program at SUNY Delhi in 1989, she joined the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine where she is now the Director of Emergency/Critical Care.  Leslie enjoys the unpredictable nature of emergency/critical care and the diverse caseload it provides.  She enjoys teaching veterinary and veterinary technician students in the clinical and laboratory settings.  She is a frequent speaker at national and regional veterinary conferences as well as veterinary technician programs as a guest lecturer.

Leslie is also a passionate advocate for the veterinary technician profession.  She is involved with her state technician association, NAVTA, and serves on the NAVTA Veterinary Nurse Initiative Committee, as well as being a member at large on the AVECCTN board.  Leslie is a RECOVER CPR certified instructor. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Tennessee State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.  In addition to her veterinary technician degree, she holds a BS in Business Management and an MS in Management and Leadership.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.hsvma.org/webinar-veterinary-technician-utilization

Imagine this…you’re walking along, and suddenly your dog is at your side, staring at you. You look around and you see why….chicken bones on the ground, squirrels playing near the path or that ever-so-tempting pile of horse poop!

A solid “Leave-it” cue is cool but an automatic leave-it is way better!

This webinar is all about just that. Starting with no cue at all, Denise will walk you through the steps of developing a strong leave-it! First you’ll teach a traditional cue and next you’ll work towards an automatic response to attractive options in the environment. How cool is that?!

Along for the ride is a leave-it for the food refusal exercise found in a variety of dog sports.

Join Denise and find your walks become a lot more relaxing as your dog takes responsibility for leaving stuff where it belongs – in the environment!

WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/index.php/self-study/webinars

Out of all the events your nonprofit may have on its annual fundraising calendar, donor cultivation events are one of the most important. After all, donors don’t grow on trees—although it’d be cool if they did…

That is not reality; let’s rewind. What is a donor cultivation event? And how is it different than a regular fundraising event? A donor cultivation event, also known as a friendraising event, is a more intimate event tailored to cultivating new donors!

During this webinar you’ll learn:

• How donor cultivation events are the gateway to individual giving
• 7 tips on hosting a Friendraising event
• How to identify your next donors
• How to engage your board in Friendraising
• How to engage your top donors in Friendraising

Speaker: Sabrina Walker-Hernandez, President/CEO of Supporting World Hope

WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.networkforgood.com/resource/evt-cultivate-new-donors/

Pregnant queens with their tiny baby kittens are already arriving in many parts of our country – and in some places, the kitten season never stops!

These moms and their babies need trained fosters to save their lives. Have you thought about fostering a mom with kittens? Have you fostered already, but would like to know more? Join us for this free training!

Register for the event here

Presenter: Susan Spaulding, AKA “The Nation’s Kitten Mom”

If you can’t join us for the live presentation, don’t worry! Sign-up anyway, because a recording of this, and other webinars, will be available on NKC’s eLearning Center no later than 2 weeks after they air.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://kittencoalition.org/event/pregnancy-and-birth-caring-for-pregnant-and-nursing-cats-and-their-kittens-2/

Work-life balance is never easy for people who work in animal sheltering, and increased lengths of stay and high staff turnover have only made the job more challenging. As you support the people and pets in your community, caring for yourself and your teams can feel like a secondary goal. Join Lindsay Hamrick, Director of Shelter Outreach & Engagement with the Humane Society of the United States, to learn why work-life balance can be difficult in animal welfare and practical tips for organizations and individuals to identify barriers to achieving better balance. Attendees will learn strategies to create boundaries between their professional and personal lives, affording time for individualized self-care and wellness while still meeting the needs of the mission. Register to join us live on Thursday, March 16 at 5pm CT.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6016782060176/WN_bFeC6G6NR8yw9miDQOq8Rg

The most common cause of companion dog relinquishment and non-medical euthanasia is problem behavior. Many animal behavior professionals utilize descriptive assessments, functional assessments, or medical assessments to try and identify the functions of problem behavior in order to target those functions in behavior modification protocols. However, studies have demonstrated differences in accuracy and efficiency between functional assessments and functional analyses.

Mouthing is a relatively common problem behavior observed in pet dogs, and many owners seek to reduce the frequency of the behavior. However, the functions of dog mouthing are unknown; therefore, behavior interventions are based on descriptively-informed behavioral functions. As a result, current interventions may lack efficacy or even worsen the behavior.

Although the functional analysis is the gold standard for identifying human behavioral functions and developing function-based interventions, its use in the animal behavior field is still relatively rare. This study assessed the validity of the functional analysis for mouthing in companion dogs and tested function-based interventions informed by the results. Participants included three dogs and their owners participating in a functional analysis and intervention assessment. Data indicate that function-based interventions informed by functional analysis results were efficacious for reducing problem mouthing.

Discussion in this session will include how the functional analysis was set up, behavior was measured, data were analyzed, and results were integrated into interventions.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the importance and definition of an operant behavioral function (what drives a particular operant behavior).
• Be able to describe the relative differences between functional assessments and functional analyses, in addition to understanding the differences in outcomes and efficiency.
• Understand the relative frequency and possible functions of dog mouthing behavior.
• Have a very general understanding of the setup of a functional analysis protocol and interpretation of functional analysis results in the context of dog mouthing behavior.

Presenter: Dr. Mindy Waite

CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT 1, KPA 1, IAABC Pending

Registered for the live event, get busy and cannot make it! No worries you will automatically receive a recording!

WEBSITE LINK:  https://petprofessionalguild.com/event-5064798