Veterinarian

Tasks and duties

• Advising clients on health, nutrition and feeding, hygiene, breeding and care of animals.
• Treating animals medically and surgically, and administering and prescribing drugs, analgesics, and general and local anaesthetics.
• Determining the presence and nature of abnormal conditions through physical examination, laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging techniques including radiography and ultrasound.
• Performing surgery, dressing wounds and setting broken bones.
• Performing obstetric and gynaecological procedures on animals.
• Participating in government programs designed to prevent the occurrence and spread of animal diseases.
• Testing animals for disease and inoculating against infectious diseases and notifying authorities of outbreaks of infectious animal diseases.
• Euthanising animals in a humane fashion when necessary.