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Job Description

Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1041.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 117,580.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 56.00
• Currently, there are 36,430 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Optometrists”.

Also Known As…

• Optometrists
• Optometrist/Practice Owner
• Optometrist, President/Practice Owner
• Optometrist, Owner
• Optometrist
• Independent Contractor
• Eye Clinic Manager
• Doctor of Optometry (OD)
• Chief, Optometry Service
• Optometry Doctor (OD)

Tasks for “Independent Contractor”

• Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
• Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
• Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.
• Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
• Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.
• Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.
• Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
• Provide vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.
• Examine eyes, using observation, instruments and pharmaceutical agents, to determine visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination and to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities such as glaucoma or color blindness.
• Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.

Related Technology & Tools

• Yellow condensing lenses
• Combined cover paddle occluders
• Retinoscopes
• Retinoscopy racks
• Lens clocks
• Wide jaw angling pliers
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Broken wheel visual acuity cards
• Adult fixation targets
• Phoroptors
• Golf club spuds
• Lea symbols near vision cards
• Clear 78 diopter condensing lenses
• Randot stereo tests
• Multiple pin hole occluders
• Non-contact handheld fundus lenses
• Notebook computers
• Skiascopic lens rack
• HRR Hardy-Rand-Rittler plates
• Color vision testing devices
• Lachrymal cannulae
• Combination refractor keratometers
• Pediatric near point cards
• Trial lens sets
• Desktop computers
• Ophthalmoscopes
• Corneal topographers
• Amsler grids
• Ishihara plates
• 8-well lens flippers
• Clear 20 diopter condensing lenses
• Snipe nose pliers
• Lachrymal dilators
• Contact lens loupes
• Sphygmomanometers
• Optical screwdrivers
• Lens calipers
• Personal computers
• Worth 4-dot tests
• Ophthalmic transilluminators
• Biomicroscopes
• Loose prisms
• Autorefractors
• Lensometers
• Child fixation targets
• Fundus cameras
• Horizontal prism bars
• Half nylon gripping pliers
• Binocular indirect ophthalmoscopes
• Retinal cameras
• Pupil diameter PD rules
• Hruby lenses
• Halberg clips
• Single Lea symbol books
• Fixation cards
• Gonioscopy lenses
• 4-well lens holders
• Multiple pinhole mask occluders
• Corneal pachymeters
• Tonometers
• Snellen eye charts
• Scleral depressors

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