preparing for your clinic

Clinic values are what drive micro and macro decisions about how to implement your clinic. Key decision points include cultural awareness of historical health care delivery, fear free service delivery, stress reduction for patients, owners and the crew, and patient pain management. 

This section provides tools to explore and define your clinic's core values including creating a 

Statement of Core Values.

Rez clinics are hard work. By consciously setting numerical goals and defining target populations by species, age, sex and geography will maximize your impact.

This section provides tools and information on how to have the largest impact the communities in which you work.

Partnering with other groups is essential. These partnership might include the the tribe's small animal control program, another non-profit that works in the community, local hotels, funders, and partners that can provide in kind donations such as tick medicine, microchips and pet food.

This sections explorers these partnerships and provides resources for connecting.

It's imperative that thought be given as to where to hold clinics and what time of year is best. Considerations related to timing include temperature outside, three day weekend for volunteers and other key factors. 

This section provides suggestions on good weekends and locations to hold events by reservation.

Drug protocols affect the safety of the volunteers, quality of care and aftercare ramifications. 

We suggest specific drug protocols that work well for rez clinics.

Rez clinics require so much stuff. We provide an inventory list that will help you order common items with a focus on good deals.

Each team member should have a specific role assigned and know exactly what they are supposed to be doing. But, how many team members do you need and where physically should they be in the building?

This section provides outlines to help you define that. We've also included role descriptions you can share with your volunteers.

Volunteers are what power rez clinics. Ultimately, your resources are conserved when you don't have to recreate the wheel every single time with every single volunteer. Repeat volunteers are where it's at! 

We have suggestions on what makes for a good volunteer experience.

Hotels, team meals, snacks and communication tools are all key factors related to the logistics of holding a clinic. 

We've got some tools and easy ideas for you to implement to better manage logistics.

Legal considerations for your clinic include business insurance, veterinary record keeping laws, medical malpractice coverage, consent forms and photo and video permissions. 

We've got lots of ideas and concrete suggestions to help make sure you're on legal solid footing.