Ophthalmic Technician/Optician (Great Lakes Eye Consultants)
Competency-based
ONET: 29-2081.00
1
Years
31
Skills
748h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Onboarding
- Human Skills Development – Teamwork & Team Building
- Basic anatomy of the eye
- Basic visual acuity testing
- Ocular, medical, social, and family history
- Ocular, medical, social, and family history
- Pupil examination
- Pupil examination
- Motility exam
- Motility exam
- Visual field
- Ocular pressure
- Ocular pressure
- Brief refraction
- Brief refraction
- External anatomy
- External anatomy
- Pharmacology of the eye
- Contact lenses
- Contact lenses
- Basic ocular testing
- Basic ocular testing
- Appointments
- Appointments
- Selecting frames
- Selecting frames
- Facial and eye measurements
- Facial and eye measurements
- Lens types
- Lens types
- Lens coatings
- Lens coatings
- Optical merchandise
- Optical merchandise
- Displays of optical merchandise
- Displays of optical merchandise
- Adjust eyeglasses
- Adjust eyeglasses
- Records of customer prescriptions
- Records of customer prescriptions
- Tracking inventory and sales
- Tracking inventory and sales
- Customer service
- Customer service
- Order and purchase
- Order and purchase
- Simple bookkeepin
- Simple bookkeepin
- Training of student
- Training of student
- Computerized medical records - History
- Computerized medical records - History
- Computerized medical records - Anterior eye
- Computerized medical records - Anterior eye
- Computerized medical records - Posterior eye
- Computerized medical records - Posterior eye
- Computerized medical records - Problem list
- Computerized medical records - Problem list
- Charges and billing - basic
- Charges and billing - basic
- Charges and billing - anterior segment
- Charges and billing - anterior segment
- Charges and billing - modifiers
- Charges and billing - modifiers
- Charges and billing - optical
- Charges and billing - optical
- Charges and billing - posterior segment
- Charges and billing - posterior segment
- Charges and billing - surgeries
- Charges and billing - surgeries
- Charges and billing - lasers
- Charges and billing - lasers
- Charges and billing - office surgeries
- Charges and billing - office surgeries
- Charges and billing - documentation
- Charges and billing - documentation
- Charges and billing - compliance
- Charges and billing - compliance
- Charges and billing - audits
- Charges and billing - audits
- Charges and billing - results and reports
- Charges and billing - results and reports
On-the-job training
- Ophthalmic Technician
- Determine basic anatomy of the eye. Ability to give a brief summary of each part of anatomy and its use. Ability to use a Slit Lamp.
- Ability to perform basic visual acuity testing.
- Ability to determine chief complaint and the patient's ocular, medical, social. and family history.
- Ability to perform a Pupil examination including size, APD, and understand basic pupil disorders.
- Understand and perform a motility exam; including brief cover test, hirschberg test, ductions and versions testing, and basic ocular motility disorders. Perform basic color testing
- Perform basic confrontation test and understand disorders of the visual field.
- Use a slit lamp and tono pen to determine Ocular pressure.
- Perform a brief refraction using a phoropter. Measure glasses with a lensometer. Ability to determine lens type.
- Use a slit lamp to examine external anatomy and understand basic adnexa disorders. Ability to measure exopthalmology, and ptosis.
- Understand basic pharmacology of the eye.
- Ability to recognize contact lens types, dispensing, care and maintenance.
- Perform basic ocular testing ; including ocular biometry, OCT, Visual field, Topography, Autorefraction,
- Ability to make appointments, change appointments, answer basic questions from patients, ability to determine an ocular emergency, insurance information and billing techniques.
- Recommend types of assistive devices
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.
- Measure client's bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Merchandise healthcare products or services.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Fit eyeglasses, contact lenses, or other vision aids.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Instruct patients in the use of assistive equipment.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment.
- Determine clients current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients eyeglasses
- Perform eye exam work-ups.
- Record patients medical histories
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Perform clerical work in medical settings.
- Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Provide customer service including answering questions, scheduling and other miscellaneous duties.
- Gather medical information from patient histories.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Order medical supplies or equipment.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Train medical providers.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
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