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| {FIRST_NAME} | Adds the recipients First Name. | Use |
| {LAST_NAME} | Adds the recipients Last Name. | Use |
| {COMPANY_NAME} | Adds the Company Name. | Use |
| {PORTAL_NAME} | Adds the application portals name. | Use |
| {MEMBER_NAME} | Adds the Recipients Membership name. | Use |
| {SIGNATURE_OPT_IN} | Adds the Opt-in link. | Use |
| {SIGNATURE_OPT_OUT} | Add the opt-out link. | Use |
| %signature% | Adds your preferred signature block. | Use |
| {Event_Start_Date} | Adds the Event's Start Date.(Events Only) | Use |
| {Event_End_Date} | Adds the Event's End Date.(Events Only) | Use |
| {Event_Name} | Adds the Event's Name.(Events Only) | Use |
| {Event_Description} | Adds the Event's Description.(Events Only) | Use |
| {Online_Training_Description} | Adds the Online Training Description.(Online Training Only) | Use |
| {Event_Specific_Dates} | Adds the Event's specific dates.(Events Only) | Use |
| {member_number} | Adds the Membership Number. | Use |
| {MemberSince} | Adds the Member Since Date. | Use |
| {CONTACTEMAIL} | Adds the organization email address used as the "From" address for other membership-related emails (e.g., new member welcome emails). Manage email addresses here. | Use |
| {CERTIFICATE_NUMBER} | Adds the Contact's Certificate Number | Use |
| {EVENTLOCATION} | Adds the Event's Location. | Use |
| {TOTALEVENTCREDITS} | The total number of credits that the contact has earned through the event tickets and workshops. | Use |
| {ASAPPEARSONBADGE} | Display the text of as appears field in the event setup. | Use |
| {contact_organization} | Displays the organization name of the contact. | Use |
| {RENEWALDATE} | Adds the Member Renewal Date in (yyyy-mm-dd). | Use |
| {MEMBERSHIP_YEAR} | Adds the Member's Membership Year | Use |
| {RENEWALDATE_MM-DD-YYYY} | Adds the Member Renewal Date in (mm-dd-yyyy). | Use |
| {LMS_CREDIT} | The number of credits the LMS course is worth for Continuing Education | Use |
| {COLLECTION_PERIOD_END-DATE_YYYY_MM_DD} | The end date of the CE collection period end date | Use |
| {LMS_COURSE_COMPLETION_DATE} | The completion date of the LMS course | Use |
| {INCEPTION_DATE} | Adds the Member Inception Date in (yyyy-mm-dd). | Use |
| {EVENT_END-DATE_MONTH_YYYY} | Adds Event End Date in Full Month Name and Year Format.(Events Only) | Use |
| {EVENT_END-DATE_MONTH_YYYY_ADD3} | Adds Event End Date in Full Month Name and Year Format Plus 3 Years.(Events Only) | Use |
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| {WORKSHOP_DESCRIPTION} | Adds the workshop description (if applicable) | Use |
| {WORKSHOP_CREDITS} | Adds the workshop credit for related workshop (if applicable) | Use |
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| {Event_Start_Date_DD-MM-YYYY} | Adds the Event's Start Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).(Events Only) | Use |
| {Event_End_Date_DD-MM-YYYY} | Adds the Event's End Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).(Events Only) | Use |
| {RENEWALDATE_DD-MM-YYYY} | Adds the Member Renewal Date in (dd-mm-yyyy). | Use |
| {RENEWAL_DATE_MONTH_DD_YYYY} | Adds the Member Renewal Date in (Month Dth, yyyy). | Use |
| {INCEPTIONDATE_DD-MM-YYYY} | Adds the Member Inception Date in (dd-mm-yyyy). | Use |
| {TODAYSDATE} | Adds the current date. | Use |
| {TODAYSYEAR} | Adds the current year. | Use |
| {QR_CODE} | Adds the QR Code for their contactID, name, and emailAddress | Use |
| {WORKSHOP_DATE} | The date of the workshop (if applicable). | Use |
| {WORKSHOP_START_TIME} | The start time of the workshop (if applicable). | Use |
| {WORKSHOP_END_TIME} | The end time of the workshop (if applicable). | Use |
| {MEMBEREMAIL} | Adds the Member's Email Address. | Use |
| {INCEPTIONDATE_DD_MONTH_YYYY} | Adds the Member Inception Date in (Day Month Year). - eg. 27 October 2025 | Use |
| {RENEWAL_DATE_DD_MONTH_YYYY} | Adds the Member Renewal Date in (Day Month Year). - eg. 27 October 2025 | Use |
| {Event_Start_Date_MM-DD-YYYY} | Adds the Event's Start Date in (mm-dd-yyyy).(Events Only) | Use |
| {Event_End_Date_MM-DD-YYYY} | Adds the Event's End Date in (mm-dd-yyyy).(Events Only) | Use |
Join us on October 23, 2022 for the BCVTA Fall Conference and General Meeting.
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Tyler Grogan, CVT (3 Credits)
Tyler is a Certified Veterinary Technician with experience in a variety of practices. She has worked on the floor in specialty, emergency, and general practice and as a marketing manager. Currently, she is working as a Content Specialist for the Uncharted Veterinary Conference. A long-time theme park enthusiast, a chance conversation with an engineer exposed her to the concept of Queue Theory, and the math and psychology behind how theme parks manage wait times. Her passionate mindset for innovation in vet medicine was immediately excited by the idea that Queue Theory could be applied in the veterinary setting. As a speaker, Tyler enjoys exploring the ways we can make the experiences in veterinary medicine better for everyone.
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM: General Meeting (1 Credit)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Dress for Succes! Tailoring Your Anesthetic Plan, Antonia Laoutaris, RVT, VTS (Anesthesia and Analgesia) (1 Credit)
Antonia Laoutaris graduated from Georgian College in 2006 and began working in an emergency/referral hospital setting, within emergency/critical care and surgery services, following two years in primary care practice. A passion for anesthesia resulted in her obtaining
her specialty with the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Anesthesia and Analgesia (AVTAA) in 2014. She relocated to beautiful British Columbia from Ontario in 2016 and joined the team at the Vancouver Animal Emergency and Referral Centre as lead technician and anesthesia
technologist. Antonia recently stepped into the role of Director of Veterinary Technologist Learning and Development and is excited for this new chapter in her career, where she hopes to make a positive impact for the RVTs working in veterinary medicine, nationwide.
Being prepared for an anesthetic event is paramount for success, ensuring that your patient stays stable and comfortable. A well-tailored protocol will help to minimize complications while reducing adverse events, allowing the anesthetist to dress for success! This comprehensive
lecture will cover the fundamentals of anesthesia incorporating concepts from patient work up, equipment, agent selection, induction, monitoring and recovery.
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM: Dr. Caroline Brookfield, DVM (1 Credit)
Dr. Caroline Brookfield is a Reluctant Creative. She is a veterinarian, author, speaker, stand-up comic, and mom. Faced with a false ultimatum of art or science, she chose science. Does that sound familiar? If you’re a “left brainer” like Caroline, you might share the belief that creativity is for artists, kids, and grandmas, and somewhat ancillary to more important goals. Feeling snubbed, eventually Caroline’s creativity demanded attention like a cat at dinnertime. She learned how to integrate her creative and scientific sides, realizing the importance of both, and that you don’t have to choose. Caroline is passionate about helping you to identify your own barriers to individual, everyday creativity, so that you can
speak up, stand out, and build a uniquely satisfying future for yourself. Caroline presents balanced evidence, with easy to understand and actionable takeaways, kind of like a keynote mullet: Fun up front and data in the back. You can also learn how to balance rigor with creative expression to survive the gusting winds of change, with a smile on your face.
Caroline received honors for her veterinary degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, is a certified level 2 Creative Problem Solving facilitator, and holds a Certificate of Professional Management from the University of Calgary. She is always up for a challenge, like learning guitar, rock climbing, getting her kids to eat vegetables, surfing, meditation retreats with sniper rifles. You know, the usual stuff. Caroline lives in Calgary, Alberta, where her lectures go unheeded by her family. The dog listens, sometimes.
Please email our Executive Director at bcvtaboard@gmail.com for any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Introduction
Every veterinary technician has the obligation to uphold the trust invested in the profession by adhering to the profession's Code of Ethics.
A code of ethics is an essential characteristic of a profession and serves three main functions:
No code can provide the answer to every ethical question faced by members of the profession. They shall continue to bear responsibility for reasoned and conscientious interpretation and application of the basic ethical principles embodied in the Code to individual cases. Ethical standards are never less than those required by law; frequently they are more stringent.
Preamble
The Code of Ethics is based on the supposition that the honor and dignity of the profession of veterinary technology lies in a just and reasonable code of ethics. Veterinary technicians promote and maintain good health in animals; care for diseased and injured animals; and assist in the control of diseases transmissible from animals to humans. The purpose of this Code of Ethics is to provide guidance to the veterinary technician for carrying out professional responsibilities so as to meet the ethical obligations of the profession.
Code of Ethics
Ideals
In addition to adhering to the standards listed in the Code of Ethics, veterinary technicians must also strive to attain a number of ideals. Some of these are:
This Code has been developed by the NAVTA Ethics Committee. No part of it may be reproduced without the written permission of NAVTA. Copyright 2007 NAVTA, Inc. All rights reserved. www.navta.net
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