Pawfessional Procedures

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Documents, onboarding, and search

See how the Complete Library, Onboarding Hub, and Ask Pawfessional work together so a veterinary team can find, customize, and use the right resource.

The problem

Nobody reads the 400 page binder

Most practice manuals get written once, printed once, and never opened again. These are built the other way around: short enough to actually use on the floor, organized to support inspection readiness, and editable so you are not stuck with someone else's clinic name in the header.

Editable, not locked

Every document ships as a Word file plus a clean PDF. Change the clinic name once and it is yours.

Built from primary sources

Drawn from DEA, OSHA, FDA, USDA APHIS, AAHA, and RECOVER guidance, plus state law where it differs.

Made to be used

Quick reference cards, competency checklists, and prompt cards, not just policy paragraphs.

Start free

The CPR card, on the house

Free download

Would your team know the epinephrine dose if a patient coded right now?

RECOVER 2024 changed familiar crash cart directions. Routine high dose epinephrine is no longer recommended, atropine is now a single early dose for nonshockable rhythms only, and the ETCO2 quality target is higher than before.

If your crash cart card predates the update, it may be out of date.

This two-sided quick reference organizes the updated cycle actions, reversible causes, drug volumes, and defibrillation settings in one place.

It is designed for the moment when your team cannot stop to search a manual. Print it, laminate it, and keep it with the crash cart.

Download the card

No signup. It is the same document that ships in the library, not a teaser version.

Inside the documents

What you are actually buying

Real pages from the library. Watermarked here, clean in the download.

Start Here Roadmap page showing the five starting paths — Start Here roadmap

DEA inspection readiness SOP page — DEA inspection readiness

CPR pre calculated drug volume chart — Pre calculated code drug volumes

Anesthesia induction and monitoring SOP page — Anesthesia monitoring

New puppy client education handout — Client education handout

Veterinary technician 90 day training system page — 90 day technician training

The other option

Or you could write them yourself

Practice owners do write their own. It is a legitimate choice. The hard part is repeating the research, drafting, implementation, and maintenance work across every area of the practice.

Confirm the current federal, state, and professional sources Research

Turn the requirements into a clinic-specific working procedure Draft

Build the forms, checklists, training tools, and quick references around it Deploy

Review it when guidance, law, or clinic workflow changes Maintain

Documents already assembled in the Complete Library 267

That work happens after hours, at the price of unbillable time, and it is the first thing dropped when the schedule gets full. Which is why most practices have four good SOPs and a folder of intentions.

What you keep either way

These arrive as editable Word files, so nothing here is a black box. Rewrite a step, swap a drug, drop a section that does not apply to your practice. The starting point is done, and the judgment stays yours.

The catalog

Systems in the library

Documents are filed by system and number, so you always know what you have and what is missing. Documents cross reference each other by that code. Twenty-one of the twenty-nine systems are listed here, including the ones that carry the most documents.

Code	System
AS	Anesthesia. Machine safety, pre anesthetic workup, induction, monitoring, recovery.
CS	Clinical Skills. 21 hands on procedures, from catheters and blood draws to cytology and dispensing.
CW	Clinical Workflow. Opening, closing, walk ins, treatment board, rabies quarantine and reporting.
COMP	Compliance. Documentation standards, version control, inspection readiness, prescription disclosure.
CSS	Controlled Substances. Security, required records, DEA inspection readiness, discrepancy response, and diversion response.
DS	Diagnostics. Lab submission, result routing, radiology safety and positioning.
ES	Emergency. Triage, CPR protocol, crash cart, drug dosing, adverse outcome response.
HCS	Hospital Care. Inpatient nursing, fluids, CRIs, nutrition, pain assessment, handoffs.
ICS	Infection Control. Disinfection, isolation, laundry, sharps, hand hygiene.
INV	Inventory. Ordering, cycle counts, expiry management, shortages and substitution.
SCS	Surgical. Pack prep, sterilization, aseptic technique, team roles, post operative care.
SSS	Kennel and Boarding. Admission, feeding, sanitation, outbreak response, incident handling.
WSS	Workplace Safety. Hazard communication, sharps, exposure, PPE, OSHA readiness.
SMS	Staff Management. Onboarding packets, disciplinary action, workplace policies, handbook.
SRS	Staff Retention and Wellness. Turnover cost, compassion fatigue, career ladders, stay interviews.
CC	Front Desk and Client Communication. New client onboarding through end of life conversations.
AWS	Appointment Workflow. Intake forms, rounding, reception triage, prompt cards.
PSS	Patient Safety. Handling and restraint, fearful and aggressive patient protocols, pre visit pharmaceutical planning, behavior and handling records.
REV	Revenue Integrity. Charge capture, discount policy, accounts receivable.
TES	AI Scribe and Technology. Scribe SOP, client FAQ, lobby notice.
QR	Quick Reference Cards. 34 laminate and post cards, the fastest thing here to deploy.

The remaining systems cover client education handouts, rehabilitation therapy safety programs, marketing and growth guides, referral resources, full training programs for technicians, assistants, receptionists and kennel staff, state specific compliance packs, an employee handbook template, and an inspector reception protocol built to be laminated and posted at the front desk.

After you buy

It keeps up with you

One login for everything

Complete Library customers can use Customer Access to open the Library, Onboarding Hub, and Ask Pawfessional from one dashboard. Verify your purchase once, then open the tool you need.

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Start here

The Complete Library and SOP Bundle include a Start Here roadmap. Six pages that tell you where to begin, so you are not staring at 267 documents wondering which one matters. Pick your situation, new hire, inspection coming, building from nothing, and it hands you the documents to start with and the order to do them in.

Your library updates itself

The Complete Library and SOP Bundle are delivered through live folders, not one time downloads. When a document in those bundles is corrected or added, it appears in the folder. When guidelines change, the affected document changes with them. Your link always shows the current version, with no new purchase and nothing to manage.

The full library sells as a single bundle. Individual systems are available if you only need to fix one part of the practice right now.

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Who writes these

Dr. Matt Culverwell, DVM

Founder

A practicing veterinarian with 15 years in clinical practice, plus direct ownership and management experience. Still on the floor, which is the point. Every document here came out of a real problem in a real clinic, usually one that had already gone wrong once.

Good protocols were always locked inside corporate systems or priced for hospital groups, while independent practices got a search engine and a weekend. That gap is what this fixes.

Staff

Poppi

Chief Procedure Officer

Grey domestic longhair. Supervises document review from the top of the printer, objects to any protocol that delays dinner, and has never once signed off on a policy she did not sit on first.

Marshmello holds the title of Director of Quality Control and reports to Poppi, a reporting line he disputes constantly and in writing.

Coming soon

Cageside

Coming soon

A clinical reference and dosing tool for veterinary teams. Antibiotic selection, formulary, CRIs, fluid rates, dilutions, unit conversions, emergency protocols, toxicology, and anesthesia monitoring, built to live on the phone already in your pocket at the treatment table.

It is still in development and is not available yet.

It will live at pawfessionalprocedures.com/cageside.

Contact

Get in touch

Found an error, or need a protocol that is not here yet? A fair amount of this library exists because somebody asked.

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Documents are licensed for single clinic use. Not legal or veterinary advice. Verify all requirements against current federal, state, and local law, and confirm clinical content against current guidelines before use.