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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.9 - handling animals S6.9.7 - providing therapy or veterinary treatment for animals Assist the veterinary surgeon as a scrub nurse
Description
Provide assistance in the handling of equipment and materials in a sterile manner during surgical procedures in operating theatre.'.
Handling includes handling of tissues as part of the surgical procedure.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Veterinary nurseVeterinary nurses support animals undergoing veterinary treatment and give advice to veterinary clients in the promotion of animal health and disease prevention in accordance with …
- Veterinary technicianVeterinary technicians provide the technical and administrative support to the veterinarian in accordance with national legislation. Duties Veterinary technicians typically do…
Related skills
- Positions for surgical procedures
- Maintain stocks of veterinary materials
- Physiology of animals
- Assist in general veterinary medical procedures
- Safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- Practise veterinary professional codes of conduct
- Animal behaviour
- Environmental enrichment for animals
- Assist in administering veterinary anaesthetics
- Process payments
- Veterinary terminology
- Follow work schedule
- Prepare animals for anaesthesia
Last updated on February 18, 2026
