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

Tasks for “Optometrist, President/Practice Owner”

• Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.
• Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.
• Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
• Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
• Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.
• Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
• Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.
• 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.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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