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TASK
Opticians, Dispensing
ID
work_healthcare_practitioners/opticians_dispensing
Type
TASK
Children
21
Child Nodes (21)
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Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
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Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
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Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
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Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
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Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
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Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
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Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
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Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
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Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
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Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
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Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
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Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
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Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
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Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
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Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
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Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
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Supervise the training of student opticians.
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Order and purchase frames and lenses.
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Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
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Repair damaged frames.
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