Do you seek a career involving animals?
One of the most popular and sought-after job categories is animal service.
Our thorough animal health care training will give you a competitive advantage. While learning with us, you will receive vital information and experience in comprehending the many different areas of Animal Health Care and their application. This course has been developed to assist you in understanding animal health care and fundamental veterinarian procedures.
Utilize this course to enhance your work prospects, as a stepping stone to a future as a licenced veterinary nurse or animal technician, or just to strengthen your ability to care for your family or business’ less-human members.
Lesson Structure
There are 12 lessons in this course:
- Introduction to Animal Health Care
- nature and scope of veterinary services
- private veterinary practices
- other veterinary services; laboratories, quarantine, agriculture departments, pharmaceutical companies, educational, etc
- other animal services; breeders, holiday care, etc.
- animal welfare and control
- veterinary services
- code of practice
- terminology
- transporting animals
- Common Health Problems in farm animals and pets
- causes of ill health
- injury
- conditions
- nutritional problems
- living organisms
- parasites
- family pets common conditions
- dogs
- cats
- caged birds
- aquarium fish
- mice
- wild animals common conditions
- reptiles
- Animal Behaviour
- communication in dogs
- scent
- barking
- body language
- handling cats
- bird language
- types of behaviour
- time orientation
- space orientation
- territorial behaviour
- aggression
- horse psychology
- Signs of Ill Health
- vital signs
- the healthy animal
- signs & symptoms of diseases
- recognising ill health
- diagnosis of diseases
- taking smears
- taking tissue samples
- diagnosis and control of different types of diseases including
- viruses
- bacteria
- protozoa
- parasites
- mites
- fleas
- Veterinary Facilities
- types of facilities; clinic, hospital, mobile facility, emergency facility, etc
- first aid kit; aids for diagnosis, instruments, medicines, preparations, etc
- record management
- enclosure for animals
- environmental requirements
- Safety Procedures
- duty of care
- lifting heavy weights
- reducing back injury
- protective equipment
- dealing with chemicals
- skin penetrating injuries
- risk categories
- separating animals
- disposal of dead/infected tissues
- dangerous non-animal wastes
- storage and handling of medicines
- handling larger animals
- Administration of Animal Health
- animal insurance
- quarantine
- importing animals
- managing a veterinary office
- telephone usage
- record keeping
- filing information
- Animal First Aid
- types of wounds
- cuts
- punctures
- tears
- treating and cleaning wounds
- granulating wounds
- stitching a wound
- bone and joint problems
- broken bones
- tendon injury
- poisoning
- restraining animals during first aid
- restraining cats
- restraining dogs
- restraining horses
- restraining cattle
- restraining sheep
- Preventative Health Care
- preventing ill health
- balanced diet
- insect control
- dip
- vaccination
- Comparing natural active immunity, artificial active immunity, natural passive immunity, and artificial active immunity
- tetanus antiserum
- types of vaccines
- alternatives to vaccination
- avoid stressing livestock
- Routine Health Treatments
- de-sexing
- castration
- vasectomy
- spaying
- tubal ligation
- castration of cats
- dogs
- pregnancy
- gestation periods
- euthanasia
- anaesthesia and analgesia
- preparing an animal for surgery
- sterilising equipment
- castrating a colt
- Health Problems in Domestic Pets
- burns
- urinary tract infections;
- shock
- electrolytes
- ticks
- reptiles
- fish problems
- Rehabilitation Care
- scope of rehabilitation
- planning a recovery
- animal nursing
- the hospital pen
- monitoring temperature, pulse, respiration
- enclosures
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Explain the range of services that animal care providers provide.
- Explain the typical health issues that different animals face.
- Describe the typical behaviour of several domestic animal species in various contexts.
- Recognize typical symptoms of disease in a range of animals.
- Explain each facility’s function in a veterinary clinic.
- Establish safety protocols for a veterinary clinic.
- Explain the various administrative responsibilities that exist in veterinary offices.
- Explain how to treat various animals using first aid techniques.
- Explain the conditions needed for domestic animals to be healthy.
- Learn about standard medical procedures for animals in good health.
- expand understanding of domestic pet health issues and treatments.
- Learn how to take care of animals before, during, and after treatment.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES
Breeders Care
Along with having knowledge, successful people need to be enthusiastic, practical, tenacious, and willing to do whatever it takes to succeed—whether that means volunteering to gain experience, networking on social media to get noticed, or doing something else.
If this describes you, we can provide you the knowledge you need to better understand your alternatives and make judgements about whether or not to pursue them.
 ACS student comments: “Very happy with how my work is being marked. I am enjoying my course, and have learnt a lot of new things that are valuable to know considering I have a lot of animals and is useful information for me to know.” Michelle Rottenberry, Animal Health Care course.
“I cannot praise the animal health care course highly enough. I have learned a great deal, far beyond my expectations.” G. Kite, Australia – Animal Health Care course
