Optician vs optometrist assistant

Differences between optician and optometrist assistant duties and responsibilities

Optician example responsibilities.

• Manage appointments and appointment reminders, checking in/out patients, check insurance eligibility.
• Maintain coating quality using adhesion testing and spectrophotometers, and manage coating hues and reflectance adjustments.
• Show manual dexterity, hand eye coordination and precision to work with different types of lenses and tools.
• Assist patients with frame selections and lenses that are best suit for their lifestyle, Rx and price needs.
• Produce forms for the authorization of insurance benefits and eligibility for incoming patients.
• Prepare work orders and instructions for fabricating patients prescriptions and verify Rx are finished to specifications.
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Optometrist assistant example responsibilities.

• Adhere to OSHA guidelines while performing instrument sterilization in addition to managing medical inventory.
• Pretest patients on NCT, OCT, refractomotor, visual field machine, and retinal camera.
• Check in and work up patients for eye exam, assist optometrist with retinal photos, glaucoma testing and basic refraction.
• Perform require pretests for the Dr's.
• Perform OCT scan of optic nerve, macula, and fundus photo.
• Clean and maintain equipment and instruments in the optometric area, pre-test room, and restock inventories.
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