Lifesaving Intake Protocols And Preventative care

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Lifesaving Intake Protocols And Preventative care - Quiz

Staff and volunteers are critically important to keeping animals healthy from the moment they enter the shelter. Dr. Elizabeth Berliner, Director of Clinical Programs for Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, gave a wonderful talk at the 2012 ASPCA/Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Conference about intake procedures as well as ongoing... see moreactivities designed to protect shelter animal health and wellness. see less

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2. What organization-level factors negatively impact the health of animals in shelters?

3. Flow-through planning involves teamwork from all levels of shelter staff and volunteers.

True

False

4. Key strategies in a shelter involve:

Understanding the shelter's capacity.

Utilizing intake protocols and procedures.

Pathway planning.

Setting goals and tracking success.

All of the above.

5. Capacity for care is a combination of:

The number of appropriate housing units.

The number of staff and volunteers providing direct care.

Capacity for care cannot be measured.

A, B and C.

6. Capacity is inversely related to length of stay (i.e., decreasing your length of stay increases your capacity).

True

False

7. Daily rounds are:

Medical rounds.

Inventory.

Staff meetings.

A team approach to problem solving where the individual care meets population management.

Were the medical staff sits around a table discussing the medical management of individual animals.

8. Proactive management of owner surrenders does not include:

Surrender without an appointment.

Foster to surrender or adoption for kittens and puppies.

Providing access to pet-friendly housing and behavior resources.

Re-homing resources.

Pet food pantries and subsidized veterinary care.

9. What are some common system "bottlenecks" to getting animals to the adoption floor:

Stray holds, outtake exams, medical evaluations, behavior evaluations, spay/neuter surgeries, illness and foster care.

Stray holds, intake exams, medical evaluations, behavior evaluations, spay/neuter surgeries, illness and foster care.

Adoption holds, intake exams, medical evaluations, behavior evaluations, spay/neuter surgeries, illness and foster care

Stray holds, intake exams, medical evaluations, play evaluations, spay/neuter surgeries, illness and foster care.

Stray holds, intake exams, medical evaluations, behavior evaluations, spay/neuter surgeries, wellness care and foster care.

10. Helpful hints for daily rounds include:

Stay on task, create action items and designate multiple leaders.

Do when time allows, create action items and designate a leader.

Stay on task, create action items and designate a leader.

Stay on task, make a list of action items only as a last resort and designate a leader.

None of the above.

11. When microchipped, what approximate percentage of stray cats entering shelters get returned to their owners?

Less than 2%

20%

40%

More than 50%

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