OPTOMETRIST (CLINICAL)

Essential Duties, Functions And Responsibilities

• Provides direct comprehensive clinical optometric care in an outpatient setting.
• Delivers high quality primary eye and vision care services.
• Examines for and prescribes corrective lenses.
• Provides total patient care including prevention, health maintenance, early diagnosis, treatment and follow up services.
• Orders diagnostic imaging and laboratory studies.
• Utilizes advanced optometric procedures and instrumentation to diagnose, treat and manage ocular disorders and diseases.
• Determines proper remedial alternative and discusses and interprets findings with patients.
• Suggests appropriate treatment methods, including coordination of medical eye care services with other physicians or specialists within and outside of FDIHB.
• Provides patient and family education regarding ocular health issues.
• Evaluates, manages and triages emergent non-surgical eye conditions.
• Collaborates with other optometrists, ophthalmologists, physicians, nursing staff, technicians and administrators to facilitate care to meet common healthcare goals.
• Performs minor surgical procedures (suture removal, corneal foreign body removal) consistent with hospital clinical privileges.
• Ensures preparation and completion of comprehensive medical records in a timely appropriate manner in compliance with applicable guidelines.
• Participates in mandatory departmental and hospital staff meetings.
• Participates in any departmental Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QA/PI) and academic programs.
• Supervises optometric resident and students when applicable.
• Maintains clinical competence through continuing medical education, self-study, review of professional journals and proficiency training.
• Provides professional and technical in-services to department staff.
• Performs emergency on-call consultation and care as directed.

Experience

• Completion of one (1) year optometric residency or three (3) years of clinical experience in an ocular disease based practice.
• Doctor of Optometry Degree (OD) from a school accredited by the Accreditation Council of Optometric Association (ACOE).
• Active unrestricted optometrist license in any U.S. State or Territory.