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

Tasks for “Optometrist/Practice Owner”

• Provide vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.
• Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
• Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
• Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
• Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.
• 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.
• Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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