HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Ophthalmology)

Duties

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Major duties for this position may include (but are not limited to):

• 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 medical history both ocular and general medical history; family history both ocular and general; social history; and review of medications and allergies, including current ocular prescription and nonprescription medications.
• Accurately tests visual acuity at distance and near with and without correction or with and without pinhole.
• Measures eyeglass prescription using manual or automated lensometer, recording sphere, cylinder, axis, and prism in both plus and minus cylinder.
• Performs pupil evaluation recording pupil size, shape, symmetry, reaction to light and accommodation. Performs swinging light test to detect a relative afferent pupillary defect.
• Performs basic refractometry utilizing an autorefraction or habitual eyeglass prescription in the phoropter.
• Instills eye medications (drops or ointment, including anesthetic, dye, dilating drops, cycloplegic drops, or antibiotic).
• Measures intraocular pressure with standard techniques, including Goldmann applanation tonometry.
• Performs pachymetry to determine corneal thickness and manual keratometry or automated topography to determine corneal curvature.
• Performs intra-ocular lens calculations using IOL Master or equivalent device.
• Performs automated visual field testing using various perimetry techniques.
• Performs external photographs and fundus photography.
• Performs optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the anterior segment, retina and optic nerve.
• Performs patient screening and triage of potentially urgent ocular conditions.
• Assists during clinic-based ophthalmic surgery, including revision of wounds, biopsies of eyelid lesions, cultures of conjunctiva or cornea; reformation of anterior chamber; evacuation of hyphema repositioning of corneal endothelial grafts; intravitreal injections; and laser 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.
• Ensures proper cleaning and disinfection, calibration maintenance, backup, annual inventory and ordering of instruments supplies and equipment; obtains quotes as needed; and reports needed to repairs to biomedical engineering.

Performs other duties as necessary.