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	THE COMPLETE OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT To order this title, and for more information, click here 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 062/623 Last update: 27 Sep 2008	Book contents Table of contents Reviews Submit your review Bookmark this page Recommend this publication Overview of all books