Week 7: Overview

Clinical Skill Lab - medication and fluid plans - needles, syringes, injections and phletomy

Canine behavior restraint, and low stress handling

Attend laboratory at assigned times in the CSL lab with your group matesiew
Prior to lab, read the canine handling and restraint laboratory activity plan and the canine FAS scoring system document in the Week 7 Module Overview

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

Clinical Skills Lab - medication 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 sitatuation
Identify important informaiton 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 cephlic vein on a model

Canine behavior, restraint, and low stress handling

Assign an accurate Fear and Anxiety Stress Score to dogs and cats and justify your assigned score to a classmate or instructor
Demonstrate how to properly place a leash on a dog, remove from the cage, and walk from one setting to the next
Demonstrate restraint techniques for controlling a dog's head, forequarters and hindquarters; describe situations in which you would use each restraint
Demonstrate appropriate and inappropriate live animal restraint techniques for canine examinations, phlebotomy, radiology procedures including proper techniques to move a dog from standing to sitting and standing to lateral.

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CSL Evaluation Module 1
Group Assessments
Nongraded quiz 2 on Animal behavior, handling, and restraint opens 9/27 at 12pm until 10/11 at 8 aam
Work-based assessments - Choose from those associated with canine low-stress handling and restrain
Work-based assessment document is in the Start Here module in the Assessment section