The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing6 Okt 2024

#130: The Joyful Emergency Vet: Essential Strategies For A Long And Happy Career In Emergency Veterinary Practice. With Dr Brooke Schampers and Dr Taleta Hompas

If you work in emergency practice, or you're considering it, then this episode is for you. ⁠Dr Brooke Schampers ⁠and ⁠Dr Taleta Hompas ⁠are ECC veterinarians with more than two decades experience between them who create resources and coach others on how to thrive as an ECC shift worker through there ⁠EMV4Life⁠ program. In this episode they will tell you:

How to better structure your shifts to optimise for sleep and health.
How to navigate the swing between night and day shift.
How Taleta manages shift work as a parent of young children.
How to increase productivity on shift to reduce cognitive load and stress and get you out the door sooner.
How to bring more joy into your emergency shifts.

We discuss what there is to love about emergency vetting, what to consider if you are thinking of a career as an ECC vet, and what other challenges there are beyond sleep and shift work.

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Topics, Time Stamps and Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:22 Why ECC? What’s to love about it?

06:38 Are Certain Personalities Better Suited for ECC

15:39 The Impact of Shift Work on Health

22:21 Brooke’s Routine for Sustainable Night Shifts

32:51 Balancing ECC Work with Family Life

46:18 Setting Yourself Up for Long-Term ECC Careers

50:32 Rostering

54:17 Increased Productivity On Shift

01:06:17 Finding Your Joy in Veterinary Work

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