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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.9 - handling animals S6.9.7 - providing therapy or veterinary treatment for animals Prepare animals for veterinary surgery
Description
Prepare animals for minor and major surgical procedures and carry out the correct positioning and use of aseptic skin preparation.'.
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
- Provide first aid to animals
- Control animal movement
- Assess animal behaviour
- Support veterinary diagnostic imaging procedures
- Anatomy of animals
- Assist the veterinary surgeon as a scrub nurse
- Cope with challenging circumstances in the veterinary sector
- Maintain stocks of veterinary materials
- Assist in general veterinary medical procedures
- Manage personal professional development
- Practise veterinary professional codes of conduct
- Animal behaviour
Last updated on February 19, 2026
