optometrist
ISCO: 2267. Skills: 60. Essential: 46.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise customers on optical instruments maintenance
- advise on contact lense maintenance
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply numeracy skills
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- deal with emergency care situations
- determine eye disease progression
- diagnose problems of the visual system
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- eye protection regulations
- fit contact lenses
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- implement marketing strategies
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage staff
- optical glass characteristics
- optical instruments
- perform comprehensive eye examinations
- perform ocular tonometry
- prescribe corrective lenses
- process payments
- promote inclusion
- promote ocular health
- provide therapy of the visual system
- quality standards of ophthalmic equipment
- record healthcare users' billing information
- refer healthcare users
- refraction of the eye
- respond to changing situations in health care
- test visual acuity
- use ophthalmic instruments
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- administer medication for vision problems
- contribute to continuity of health care
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- implement sales strategies
- participate in medical inventory control
- perform vision rehabilitation
- preventive medicine
- provide domiciliary eyecare
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care