orthoptist
ISCO: 2267. Skills: 70. Essential: 63.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- anaesthetics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- carry out orthoptic treatments
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct specialised orthoptic tests
- contact lens fitting techniques
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- determine eye disease progression
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose problems of the visual system
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- neuro-ophthalmology
- neurology
- neurophysiology
- ophthalmological examination methods
- optics
- orthoptics
- paediatric psychology
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform vision rehabilitation
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- promote ocular health
- provide health education
- provide therapy of the visual system
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- receive patient referrals with eye conditions
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- supervise orthoptic treatments
- test visual acuity
- treatment of strabismus
- types of strabismus
- undertake healthcare examination
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams