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Veterinary Assistant - Career Diploma
Work with animals! The Penn Foster Career School Veterinary Assistant Program can help you make a difference. Your abilities can keep animals healthy, nurse them when ill – even save their lives! Train quickly and conveniently.
Learn how to:
- Obtain animal health histories and records.
- Provide specialized nursing care.
- Assist in surgical procedures.
- Wash, feed, and care for animals, and much more.
Why take a Veterinary Assistant training program? With the right credentials, you can:
- Be an important part of a professional veterinary staff.
- Work at a veterinary hospital, animal shelter, kennel, or laboratory.
Demand for professional Veterinary Assistants will rise 26% by 2012. Pet owners increasingly take advantage of veterinary services, spurring employment growth for Veterinary Assistants. That means more opportunity for you!
Growth figures represent a ten-year period ending 2012. Source: “National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix,” a publication of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.