Health Technician (Optometry)
- Measures and records visual acuity (with use of pinhole testing as indicated).
- Obtains accurate potential acuity meter, laser interferometry, contrast sensitivity or other specialized visual acuity measurements.
- Evaluates pupillary light responses and measure pupil size.
- Determines the presence or absence of fusion and perform stereoacuity measurements.
- Performs Amsler grid testing.
- Administers eye drops under the supervision of an eye care provider (optometrist or ophthalmologist).
- Performs basic tonometry (e.g., non-contact, Goldmann, Tono-Pen).
- Estimates the anterior chamber depth with a penlight or slit lamp biomicroscope.
- Properly reads a basic spectacle prescription using an automated or manual lensometer.
- Obtains accurate autorefractometry and keratometry measurements.
- Performs confrontation and standard automated visual field testing and administering and scoring basic color vision tests (e.g., pseudoischromatic plates, Farnsworth D-15).
- Measures and records corneal thickness by pachymetry as well as performance of advanced corneal measurements, exophthalmometry, tear testing and ocular imaging (e.g., stereo fundus, basic slit lamp biomicroscopy, intraocular lens master measurements, ocular ultrasonography, posterior segment optical coherence tomography, fundus autofluorescence and/or ocular angiography).