Complete Optometric Assistant

Name: Complete Optometric Assistant
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ISBN: 9780750688888

ISBN-10: 0750688882

ISBN-13: 9780750688888

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sarah Morgan

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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.

Book details

List price: $102.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 7/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


How to get the best from this book



Staff in Eye Care



The role of the optical assistant



Orientating new staff



Personnel in eye care



The Patient Visit



Patient history - and the impact on the eye examination



Behind the consulting room door



Supplementary tests



Visual fields



Introduction to the Eye



A fascinating tour of the eye



Changes to the front of the eye



Irritable eyes



Changes to the inside of the eye



Common Eye Conditions



Cataract



Glaucoma



Diabetes



Age-related macular degeneration



Understanding Vision



Record cards



Myopia



Hyperopia



Astigmatism



Presbyopia



Children's vision



Low vision



Refractive surgery



Contact Lenses



Introduction to contact lenses



Contact lens solutions



Teaching the new wearer



Contact lens aftercare



Advice on Spectacles



Ophthalmic lenses



Ophthalmic frames



UV protection



Eye protection



Spectacle collections



Practice and Patient Management



Appointment scheduling



Tricky symptoms



Tricky customers



A strong practice team



Patient satisfaction


Appendices


Soft contact lens check list


Rigid contact lens check list


Continuous wear contact lens check list


Customer concern form


Colour plate


Index