How do they match: Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers

  • Perform accounting duties, such as bookkeeping, billing customers for services, or maintaining inventories.
  • Perform enemas, catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages.
  • Perform hygiene-related duties, such as clipping animals' claws or cleaning and polishing teeth.
  • Perform office reception duties, such as scheduling appointments or helping customers.
  • Perform routine laboratory tests or diagnostic tests, such as taking or developing x-rays.
  • Write reports, maintain research information, or perform clerical duties.

  • Perform clerical work in medical settings.
  • Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.