Megan Brashear

Megan Brashear, BS, CVT, VTS (ECC), is the education manager at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital, a nonprofit 24-hour emergency and intensive care animal hospital in Portland, Oregon. She is responsible for the medical content for On the Floor @Dove, the hospital's online training tool for veterinary professionals. Megan is known nationally and internationally as a technician lecturer and advocate for technician training and education.

Articles by Megan Brashear

• 3 tips for veterinary technician hiring

  Monday, June 22, 2015

  After eight years in veterinary technician management, I have learned a great deal about how to select the right technician candidate to work with the team. The biggest lesson — it is less medicine-centered than you might think. I like to say, "I can teach you how to be a good technician. I can’t teach you how to be a good person." Here are three of the most important tips you need to be aware of when hiring a new tech.

• Measuring pet urine output can be done a variety of ways

  Tuesday, March 10, 2015

  ​Let's talk urine. More specifically, let's talk measuring urine output. Are you doing it? And on which patients? If you are measuring urine output, are you interpreting the results to be meaningful to your patient? Urine output measurement is an important part of patient monitoring and can alert you to major problems that you may not catch on physical exam.