Health Technician (Ophthalmology)

Job Title

The duties of this position include:

• Performs patient screening and triage of potentially urgent ocular conditions
• Assists during clinic-based ophthalmic surgery, including revision of wounds, biopsies of the eyelid lesions, cultures of conjunctiva, or cornea; reformation of anterior chamber, evacuation of hyphema, repositioning of corneal endothelial grafts, intra­vitreous injections, and laser surgical procedures
• Educates patients and legal authorized representatives in eye care, including preoperative and postoperative instructions
• Assists in the education and training of medical students, residents and fellows in those facilities with medical school affiliations
• Performs pupil evaluation recording pupil size, shape, symmetry, reaction to light and accommodation. Performs swinging flashlight test to detect a relative afferent pupillary defect.
• Performs basic refractometry utilizing an auto refraction or habitual glass prescription in the phoropter.
• Checks and performs calibration of technical ophthalmology screening instruments.
• Obtains patient physical history, to include chief complaint; reason for visit; pertinent signs and symptoms; current medication allergies; past ocular and general medical history both ocular and general; family history both ocular and general; social history; and review of medications and allergies, including current ocular prescription and non­prescription medications.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30am - 4:00pm

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized