Description
Orthoptists diagnose and treat anomalies of binocular vision. They examine, assess and treat vision impairments, squint, amblyopia and eye motility disorders. Orthoptists apply these methods in particular in the fields of paediatrics, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmology, orthoptics, optometry, pleoptics and strabology assessing functional diseases of the eye for improving functional disorders of the visual system. They also provide counselling, preventive measures and training activities and may refract and prescribe glasses, such as prism corrective glasses.
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Theoretical Knowledge
human anatomyhealth care occupation-specific ethicsorthopticsneuro-ophthalmologyhygiene in a health care settingpaediatric psychologyneurophysiologymedical terminologytypes of strabismusprofessional documentation in health careopticsfirst aidpathologytreatment of strabismuspaediatricscontact lens fitting techniquesophthalmological examination methodsanaestheticsmedical informaticshuman physiologypharmacologyhealth care legislationneurologypsychologypedagogy
Practical Skills
communicate in healthcarework in multidisciplinary health teamsprovide therapy of the visual systemcarry out orthoptic treatmentsinteract with healthcare usersaccept own accountabilityprovide health educationfollow clinical guidelinesinform policy makers on health-related challengesperform vision rehabilitationsupervise orthoptic treatmentsprovide treatment strategies for challenges to human healthensure safety of healthcare usersapply organisational techniquespromote ocular healthrespond to changing situations in health careeducate on the prevention of illnessuse e-health and mobile health technologiesrecord healthcare users' progress related to treatmentadhere to organisational guidelinestest visual acuitydetermine eye disease progressioncontribute to continuity of health caremanage healthcare users' dataundertake healthcare examinationapply context specific clinical competencescomply with legislation related to health careconduct specialised orthoptic testsdiagnose problems of the visual systemdevelop a collaborative therapeutic relationshipdeal with emergency care situationscomply with quality standards related to healthcare practicereceive patient referrals with eye conditionsempathise with the healthcare useradvise patients on vision improvement conditionslisten activelywork in a multicultural environment in health careadvise on healthcare users' informed consentpromote inclusionrecord healthcare users' billing informationparticipate in medical inventory controluse foreign languages in patient careprescribe corrective lensesselect intraocular lenses for surgeryuse foreign languages for health-related research