Dena Ceneviva
Philadelphia
Summary
Seeking position utilizing past experience and certifications in animal handling and care, Euthanasia by injection, CPR training, and Radiology Safety
Skilled Veterinary Technician with background in small and large animal care. Experience includes performing diagnostics, administering medications and vaccinations, surgical assistance, and client education. Strong communication skills with emphasis on compassionate pet care. Past roles have resulted in improved patient outcomes through individualized treatment plans and preventive health measures.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Veterinary Technician
Blue Pearl Vet
Levittown
10.2023 - Current
- Providing oversight for patients on IV fluids, Surgery post-op cases, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Dentistry, and Isolation Wards
- Managing patients and coordinating cases with various Doctors in various services
- Care for pre and post operative patients, including soft tissue, Orthopedics, Neurology, Dentistry, and Oncology cases
- Assisting in setting up emergency admits and ICU transfers
- Managing isolation wards that house Respiratory, Parvovirus, and Leptospirosis cases
- Conducting comprehensive triages for all inpatients, performing physical assessments, passive range of motion exercises, blood pressures, blood glucose checks, and various blood draws for specific lab tests
- Making informed recommendations for comfort and pain management
- Proficient in placing and assessing IV catheters
- Proficient in handling and managing Urinary obstruction patients. Ie urinary catheter placement, routine urinary catheter cleanings, flashings and urinary output monitoring
- Proficient in placing a Freestyle Libre for diabetic patients as well as the continued care and workups for diabetic/DKA patients
- Skillfully administers various forms of medications
- Proficient in working with NG tubes and PEG tubes, syringe feeding, cleaning and upkeep for these special cases
- Conducting venipuncture and managing various lab work submissions wether in house (Idexx and Heska) or being sent to the lab (Antech or Idexx) for further analysis depending on doctor orders
- Maintaining clear and effective communication with doctors, students, and residents from all departments and specialty services, and nurses addressing concerns and ensuring the proper follow up
- Participating in nursing rounds before and after each shift to exchange essential information about each patient in my care
- Utilizing Cornerstone, Instinct, Asteris and Keystone radiology programs, and Vitus vet text messaging service to update owners with either a nurse or doctor update every day
- Ensuring the organization of stock and maintaining the cleanliness of all wards
Referral Care Coordinator
Blue Pearl Vet
Levittown
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Updating owners every hour on the hour about their pets medical issues relaying from doctors
- Triaging away patient when on limited services – calling multiple hospitals in the area to ensure we can safely transfer a pet that has stable vitals
- Liaison between the doctors and the front desk
- Request medical records, radiographs, and lab work from various primary vet offices
- Ability to use Vitus Vet to update clients for various reasons
- Speaks to various doctors regarding transfers and medical cases for ER doctors
- Put clients in rooms for doctors
- Handles voice mails, call backs, emails, Vitus Vet and Limited Service follow up phone calls
- Facilitates in house Visits with owners to their inpatient pets
- Proficient in Cornerstone
- Proficient in Microsoft outlook, excel, and word
- Answers the phones in the call center when we have down time
- Assist the front desk in any of their duties
- Speaking with various owners go over wait times and go over options staying vs leaving the Hospital for a few hours
- Efficiently discharges patients and goes over various medical issues noted by doctors and specific medical treatment plans made by our ER doctors
- Occasionally helps different services with their discharges after hours
- Discusses estimates made by doctors with owners
Surgical Supervisor
Animal Care and Control Team of Philadelphia
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Surgical Oversight
- Develop and implement a scheduling system for spay/neuter and specialized surgical procedures that maximize the shelter’s surgical capacity
- Ensure ongoing maintenance and repair to all the anesthesia machines, autoclave, laboratory, and various other surgical equipment
- Supervise and maintain timely and accurate records into patient files and into drug logs in specific areas.
- Maintain weekly inventory checks of controlled substance logs to ensure accuracy and compliance with federal and state regulations.
- Assist with hiring process of new surgical nurses, and oversee their training in that role
- Monitor the performance of surgery nurses and provide ongoing technical training and skill development, and retraining as needed
- Act as a surgery nurse on an as needed basis to provide support and coaching for nurses
- Manages Controlled Drug Logs
- Ability to place a cast and wrap under supervision of doctor for various conditions from a break to wounds
- Ability to scrub in with doctors if needed for an appointment
- Readily available to triage ALL Critical, stable and cruelty cases and contact the correct agencies if needed whether it’s a rescue ER or animal cruelty officers
Surgical veterinarian technician/ GP Outpatient nurse
Fishtown Animal Hospital
08.2019 - 01.2021
- Intake/discharge surgical patients
- Assist Veterinarians with Patients and perform an evaluation of the patient’s condition
- Perform Lab work, Blood Draws, Urinalysis
- Ability to Perform Radiographs as well as Dental Radiographs
- Ability to perform Dental Cleanings, including scaling and polishing
- Ability to triage animals and get HR RR wt. CRT MM temp etc.
- Ability to place IVC and safely remove them
- Properly caring for Patients Pre and Post OP, also anesthesia monitoring
- Ability to give medications and medical treatments via Subcutaneously, Intravenous and Intramuscular
- Ability to intubate and extubate patients safely
- Ability to take digital radiographs
- Manages Controlled drug logs, and correctly enters said information in the correct places in accordance with AHAA regulations
Surgical Veterinarian Technician
Women’s Animal Center
02.2017 - 08.2019
- Assist Veterinarians with Patients and perform an evaluation of the patient’s condition
- Assist Veterinarians with various Shelter animals and evaluate patient’s body condition score/technician exam for Veterinarian
- Perform Lab work, Blood Draws, Urinalysis, Fecal Exams, Ear Cytology.
- Ability to Perform Radiographs safely
- Ability to perform Dental Cleanings, including scaling and polishing, able to perform extractions on patients under Veterinarian Supervision
- Ability to calculate medication doses under Veterinarian orders
- Ability to place IVC
- Ability to triage animals when needed
- Ability to intubate patients
- Properly caring for Patients Pre and Post OP, also anesthesia monitoring
- Ability to give medications and medical treatments via Subcutaneously, Intravenous and Intramuscular
- Familiar with Cornerstone, Idexx, Via, and Antech
- Excellent customer service skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and MS Office
- Proper attention to detail following dietary and medical protocols for pets in the shelter
Surgical Veterinarian Technician/ GP outpatient nurse
Skippack Animal Hospital
10.2016 - 02.2017
- Assist Veterinarians with Patients and perform an evaluation of the patient’s condition
- Perform Lab work, Blood Draws, Urinalysis
- Ability to Perform Radiographs as well as Dental Radiographs
- Ability to perform Dental Cleanings, including scaling and polishing
- Properly caring for Patients Pre and Post OP, also anesthesia monitoring
- Ability to give medications and medical treatments via Subcutaneously, Intravenous and Intramuscular
- Ability to triage animals properly
- Ability to place IVC
- Ability to intubate and extubate patients safely
- Familiar with Cornerstone and Idexx
- Excellent customer service skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and MS Office
- Proper attention to detail following dietary and medical protocols for pets during boarding
Surgical Veterinarian Technician/ General GP Veterinarian Technician
Pennridge Animal Hospital
02.2012 - 10.2016
- Assist Veterinarians with Patients and perform an evaluation of the patient’s condition
- Perform Lab work, Blood Draws, Urinalysis
- Ability to Perform Radiographs as well as dental radiographs
- Properly caring for Patients Pre and Post OP, also anesthesia monitoring
- Ability to give medications and medical treatments via Subcutaneously, Intravenous and Intramuscular
- Ability to intubate and extubate patients safely
- Familiar with Cornerstone and Idexx
- Excellent customer service skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and MS Office
- Proper attention to detail following dietary and medical protocols for pets during boarding
Surgical Veterinarian Technician
No Nonsense Neutering
11.2013 - 11.2015
- High Volume Spay and Neuter Clinic
- Properly caring for Patients Pre and Post OP, also anesthesia monitoring
- Ability to give medications via Subcutaneously, Intravenous and Intramuscular
- Ability to intubate and extubate patients safely
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and MS Office
Veterinarian Technician
Bucks County SPCA
09.2012 - 02.2014
- Ability to prepare a variety of diagnostic and laboratory preparations
- Sterilization of surgical equipment
- Assist with Pre- Operative Surgical care
- Ability to work with Veterinarian to anesthetize
- Euthanizing seriously ill or injured animals
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and MS Office
- Proper attention to detail following dietary and medical protocols for pets in the shelter
Education
Penn Foster Program -
05.2025
High School Diploma -
Pennridge High School
Basic Nutrition Certification -
Bucks County Community College
Skills
- Patient care
- Medical record management
- Veterinary software usage
- Client communication
- Case management
- Customer service
- Attention to detail
- Team collaboration
- Problem solving
- Cytocentesis
- Radiology safety
- Tonopen tonometry method
- Surgical scrubbing procedures
- Infection control
- Wound management
- Vital signs
- Administering subcutaneous medication
- Vaccinations
- Elizabethan collar application
- Closed-chest CPR
- Euthanasia procedures
- Physical examination
- Wound treatment
- Surgical preparation
- Maintaining treatment notes
- Patient monitoring
- Treatment administration
- Surgical procedures and support
- IV medication administration
- Pathogen identification
- Performing ultrasounds
- Controlled substance management
- Anesthesia monitoring
- Instrument pack sterilization
- Maintain controlled drug inventory
- Medication administration
- Breeding consultation
- Animal behavior observation
- Procedure support
- Animal examination
- Rehabilitation techniques
- Anesthesia administration
- Fluorescein stain test
- Emergency care
- Surgical assistance
- Medical record-keeping
- Animal restraint
- Oral and topical medication administration
- Inhalant anesthesia
- Suture removal
- Aseptic techniques
- Fluid therapy
- Medical history collection
- General anesthesia monitoring
- Veterinary dentistry
- Blood collection
- Dietary recommendations
- Injectable agent induction
- Skin scraping
- Jugular intravenous catheterization
- Intravenous injection
- Gowning and gloving procedures
- Assessment and diagnosis
- Serology
Awards And Acknowledgements
- Animal behavior and handling certificate
- CPR certificate
- Radiology certificate
- CVT – in progress
Timeline
Veterinary Technician
Blue Pearl Vet
10.2023 - Current
Referral Care Coordinator
Blue Pearl Vet
10.2022 - 10.2023
Surgical Supervisor
Animal Care and Control Team of Philadelphia
01.2021 - 01.2022
Surgical veterinarian technician/ GP Outpatient nurse
Fishtown Animal Hospital
08.2019 - 01.2021
Surgical Veterinarian Technician
Women’s Animal Center
02.2017 - 08.2019
Surgical Veterinarian Technician/ GP outpatient nurse
Skippack Animal Hospital
10.2016 - 02.2017
Surgical Veterinarian Technician
No Nonsense Neutering
11.2013 - 11.2015
Veterinarian Technician
Bucks County SPCA
09.2012 - 02.2014
Surgical Veterinarian Technician/ General GP Veterinarian Technician
Pennridge Animal Hospital
02.2012 - 10.2016
Penn Foster Program -
High School Diploma -
Pennridge High School
Basic Nutrition Certification -
Bucks County Community College