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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
Also Known As…
- 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 “Optometrists”
- Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
- Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
- 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.
- Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.
- Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.
- Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
- Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.
- Provide vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.
- Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.
Related Technology & Tools
- Corneal pachymeters
- Half nylon gripping pliers
- Color vision testing devices
- Clear 78 diopter condensing lenses
- Ophthalmic transilluminators
- Lachrymal dilators
- Notebook computers
- Lachrymal cannulae
- Combination refractor keratometers
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Multiple pinhole mask occluders
- Non-contact handheld fundus lenses
- Pediatric near point cards
- Worth 4-dot tests
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- HRR Hardy-Rand-Rittler plates
- Corneal topographers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Fixation cards
- Yellow condensing lenses
- Wide jaw angling pliers
- Biomicroscopes
- Pupil diameter PD rules
- Lens clocks
- Ishihara plates
- 4-well lens holders
- Contact lens loupes
- Snellen eye charts
- Lens calipers
- Binocular indirect ophthalmoscopes
- Loose prisms
- Randot stereo tests
- Halberg clips
- Trial lens sets
- 8-well lens flippers
- Gonioscopy lenses
- Multiple pin hole occluders
- Golf club spuds
- Sphygmomanometers
- Retinal cameras
- Ophthalmoscopes
- Autorefractors
- Clear 20 diopter condensing lenses
- Combined cover paddle occluders
- Hruby lenses
- Lensometers
- Fundus cameras
- Child fixation targets
- Amsler grids
- Snipe nose pliers
- Skiascopic lens rack
- Tonometers
- Retinoscopy racks
- Scleral depressors
- Broken wheel visual acuity cards
- Single Lea symbol books
- Desktop computers
- Horizontal prism bars
- Personal computers
- Retinoscopes
- Phoroptors
- Adult fixation targets
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