Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technician

Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technician

Department: Veterinary Technicians

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Marietta, Georgia

Practice Emergency Medicine. Build Your Skills. Grow With Dogwood.

Dogwood Veterinary Specialty and Emergency is growing, and we're adding experienced Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technicians to our Marietta, Georgia team.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, stay calm under pressure, and enjoy hands-on Emergency Veterinary Nursing, we'd love to meet you.

This is not an entry-level opportunity. We're looking for experienced technicians ready to care for urgent and high-acuity patients alongside experienced Emergency Veterinarians, five Board-Certified Criticalists, and specialty clinicians.

7:00 PM - 7:00 AM | 12-Hour Shifts

You’ll support triage, stabilization, diagnostics, treatments, monitoring, emergency procedures, and ongoing patient care throughout the night.

At Dogwood, veterinary technicians are skilled medical professionals and essential members of the patient care team.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Practice alongside five Board-Certified Criticalists
• Manage a diverse Emergency and Specialty caseload
• Utilize advanced diagnostic and monitoring equipment
• Strengthen your Emergency Veterinary Nursing skills
• Work within a collaborative, technician-focused team
• Receive mentorship and support for continued growth
• Build a long-term career in Emergency and Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Get a glimpse of the people, patients, teamwork, and daily moments that make Dogwood special.

Take an inside look at our Marietta hospital and see where you'll practice, learn, and grow.

As an Overnight Emergency Veterinary Technician, you'll provide hands-on, compassionate care to emergency patients throughout the night-from triage and stabilization through treatment, monitoring, and discharge or hospitalization.

• Perform emergency triage and patient assessment
• Stabilize and monitor patients with trauma, respiratory distress, toxicity, seizures, pain, urinary obstruction, GI emergencies, and other urgent conditions
• Place IV catheters and collect diagnostic samples
• Administer medications, fluid therapy, and CRIs
• Assist with RECOVER CPR and emergency resuscitation
• Monitor hospitalized and emergency patients throughout the overnight shift
• Recognize changes in patient condition and communicate concerns promptly

• Perform and process in-house laboratory diagnostics
• Assist with digital radiography, ultrasound, and emergency diagnostics
• Prepare patients for emergency procedures
• Assist with treatments, wound care, bandaging, catheter placement, and other nursing procedures
• Maintain accurate electronic medical records

• Assist with emergency procedures and surgeries
• Monitor anesthesia using ECG, pulse oximetry, capnography, blood pressure, and temperature
• Support perioperative care, pain management, and patient recovery
• Communicate changes in patient status promptly

• Partner with Emergency Veterinarians, Criticalists, specialty clinicians, and fellow technicians
• Maintain efficient patient flow during overnight hours
• Provide clear patient updates and thorough shift-to-shift handoffs
• Communicate compassionately with clients during stressful situations
• Maintain a clean, organized, and prepared treatment environment
• Support continuity of care from admission through discharge, transfer, or hospitalization

• 3-5 years of Emergency, ICU, Urgent Care, or Specialty Veterinary experience
• Strong triage, patient assessment, and emergency nursing skills
• Proficiency with drug calculations, CRIs, anesthesia, IV catheter placement, and diagnostics
• Experience caring for hospitalized or high-acuity patients
• Calm, organized, and decisive under pressure
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work effectively and independently overnight
• Passion for Emergency and Specialty Veterinary Medicine

• Licensed, Registered, or Certified Veterinary Technician
• RECOVER CPR certification
• Advanced anesthesia experience
• Emergency or Specialty CE
• Interest in pursuing VTS certification

Early-career technicians: We encourage you to watch for future opportunities that better align with your current experience level.

• Lifting, carrying, and restraining animals up to 50 lbs.; assistance/equipment available for heavier patients
• Standing, walking, bending, kneeling, reaching, and moving throughout the hospital for extended periods
• Handling fractious, fearful, injured, and medically fragile animals
• Cleaning, disinfecting, stocking, and maintaining treatment areas
• Exposure to animal hair, dander, saliva, urine, feces, blood, bodily fluids, and medical waste
• Working around veterinary cleaning products, disinfectants, medications, and other hospital chemicals
• Following infection-control…