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By
Sarah Morgan, Optometrist and Staff Development Consultant, Bolton, Lancs, UK
Description
THE COMPLETE OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT will be your valued guide through all of the above. Sarah Morgan draws on her experience as an optometrist
teaching optometric assistants to take you step-by-step and with clarity and authority through each of these areas and more in one handy
volume. Comprehensive and extremely practical, this book will be indispensable reading for all front-line practice staff, as well as
being enormously useful to students and dispensing opticians.
Audience
Optometric practice managers, non-academic optometric practice staff.
Contents
Part 1 - STAFF IN EYE CARE
1.1 The role of the optical assistant
1.2 Orientating new staff
1.3 Personnel in eye care
Part
2 - THE PATIENT VISIT
2.1 Patient history - and the impact on the eye examination
2.2 Behind the consulting room door
2.3 Supplementary
tests
2.4 Visual fields
Part 3 - INTRODUCTION TO THE EYE
3.1 A fascinating tour of the eye
3.2 Changes to the front of
they eye
3.3 Irritable eyes
3.4 Changes to the inside of the eye
Part 4 - COMMON EYE CONDITIONS
4.1 Cataract
4.2 Glaucoma
4.3
Diabetes
4.4 Age-related macular degeneration
Part 5 - UNDERSTANDING VISION
5.1 Record cards
5.2 Myopia
5.3 Hyperopia
5.4
Astigmatism
5.5 Presbyopia
5.6 Children's vision
5.7 Low vision
5.8 Refractive surgery
Part 6 - CONTACT LENSES
6.1
Introduction to contact lenses
6.2 Contact lens solutions
6.3 Teaching the new wearer
6.4 Contact lens aftercare
Part
7 - ADVICE ON SPECTACLES
7.1 Ophthalmic lenses
7.2 Ophthalmic frames
7.3 UV protection
7.4 Eye protection
7.5 Spectacle
collections
Part 8 - PRACTICE AND PATIENT MANAGEMENT
8.1 Appointment scheduling
8.2 Tricky symptoms
8.3 Tricky customers
8.4
A strong practice team
8.5 Patient satisfaction
APPENDICES
Soft contact lens check list
Rigid contact lens check list
Continuous
wear contact lens check list
Customer concern form
Colour plate
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 302 pages, publication date: JUL-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8888-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8888-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 18 Sep 2009
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