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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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Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.