Week 5: Overview

Clinical Skills Lab - medication and fluid plans - needles, syringes, injections, and phlebotomy

Attend laboratory at assigned times in the CSL lab with your group mates
Prior to lab, review the Clinical Skills Lab handouts and mini lectures in the Week 5 Module Overview. Also, review Week 1 lecture on needles and syringes

Live Animal Lab - feline low stress handling and restraint

Attend laboratory at assigned times in the CSL lab with your group mates
Prior to lab, read the feline handling and restraint laboratory activity plan and the feline FAS scoring system document located in the Week 5 Module Overview and in the Forms and Resources section of the Start Here Module

Upon completion of this week, you should be able to:

Clinical Skills Lab - meditation and fluid plans - needles, syringes, injections, and phlebotomy

Attach a needle and syringe in an aseptic manner
Uncap/Recap needle and operate syringe using the one-hand technique
Understand size differences in needle gauges and syringe volumes and select the appropriate size of each for a given situation.
Identify important information on a medication label
Draw up a given amount of liquid into a syringe
Identify the common injection sites used for intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
Aseptically administer IM and SC injections
Identify the common vessels used for phlebotomy in dogs and cats
Aseptically obtain a blood sample from the cephalic vein on a model

Live Animal Lab - feline low-stress handling and restraint

Assign an accurate Fear and Anxiety Stress Score to dogs and cats and justify your assigned score to a classmate or instructor
Using stuffed toys and live animals demonstrate how to remove a cat from a cage and transport to an exam table, restraint techniques for physical examinations, phlebotomy, and radiology procedures
Using stuffed toys and live animals demonstrate how to perform the following feline towel wraps – One Person, Modified and Standard Burrito, Modified and Standard Scarf, Blanket, Cowl, and Bib
Explain appropriate and inappropriate use of the feline towel wraps

Lab Materials:

Feline Handling and Restraint Laboratory

Clinical Skill Lab: Needles, Syringes, and Injections

Non-graded quiz 1 on medication and fluid administration opens on 9/16 and closes 9/24 at 8pm.
Graded Quiz 1 opens on 9/25 at 8 am and closes on 10/2 at 8 am.
CSL Meditation and Fluid Unit Case 1 is available from 8/31 8am until 9/25 at 8am. 5 bonus points upon completion . See instructions on Canvas to complete.
Start Work based assessments - choose from those associated with feline low stress handling and restraint Work-based assessment document is in the Start Here module in the Assessment section

Other action items:

Review CSL activities individually and with your group in preparation for assessment during week 7