Quick-as-a-Wink Guide to Training Your Eye Care Staff
Janice K. Ledford,
COMT
Product Description
Quick-as-a-Wink Guide to Training Your Eye Care Staff is your road map to training eye care staff. This brief, unique manual shows you what references to use in educating your staff, from basic to advanced skills. The handbook helps you develop a comprehensive instruction plan and thereby run a more efficient office.
This pint-sized volume by Janice K. Ledford packs essential index-style information within its pages. While references for most skills are listed directly, as a single entry, the more involved skills (visual fields, for example) are represented by skills sheets that are formatted to include background knowledge, alphabetized skill elements, instrumentation (when appropriate), and related skills and topics (when appropriate).
Select Skills Include:
- Basic skills (history taking, visual acuity, tonometry)
- Optometric skills (lensometry, vertex distance, pupillary distance)
- Optical skills (frame selection, lens verification, contact lenses)
- Special skills (exophthalmometry, ultrasound, OCT)
- Motility skills (cover tests, three-step test, Maddox rod)
- Corneal evaluation (pachymetry, slit lamp, keratometry)
- Basic health care skills (hand washing, standard precautions, vital signs)
Unique Features:
- References 30 books by SLACK Incorporated
- Shows trainer where to find information needed to teach a specific skill
- Provides trainee/student with references to learn a specific skill and/or prepare for certification exams, and what book shows more detail
- An essential aid in selecting the appropriate educational books for your office staff
With no other book like it on the market, Quick-as-a-Wink Guide to Training Your Eye Care Staff is a must-have for anyone working in an ophthalmic, optometric or optical office, and those studying for certification exams, in addition to those who select reference books for students, offices, and clinics.
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Contents
- Dedication
About the Author
Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- Master Skills List
- Skills Sheets
- Basic Eye Exam
- Cataract Evaluation
- Contact Lenses
- Corneal Evaluation
- Extraocular Muscles and Motility
- Frames and Lenses
- Glaucoma Evaluation
- History Taking
- Low Vision
- Optical Coherence Tomography
- Patient Education
- Photography
- Refractometry
- Retinal Evaluation
- Retinoscopy Slit Lamp
- Surgery Counseling, Assisting, and Evaluation
- Tonometry
- Visual Acuity
- Bibliography
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About the Author
Here’s a run-down of the usual:
- 25+ years in the field
- Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist
- Series Editor, the Basic Bookshelf for EyeCare Professionals
- Author of the very first, original certification exam review books
- Instructor, lecturer
- ATPO member
- Proudly serves our veterans at the Franklin Community Based Outpatient Clinic, a branch of the Charles George VA Medical Center
The personal:
- Two adult sons
- Two awesome grandkids
- Two cats
- One ninety-year-old mother who says, “If I live much longer, I’ll be an old lady.”
- Lives and plays in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
- Distinctly prefers being called Jan
The maybe-not-so-ordinary:
- Author of 2 novels and a smattering of short stories and poems
- Lord of the Rings fanatic
- Has sung at 3 weddings and a funeral
- As an editor, has earned the name Jan Scissorhands
What’s next:
- Updated editions of the Assistant and Technician exam review books
- Re-release of Exercises in Refractometry (format as yet to be determined)
A dream or two:
- A trip to New Zealand
- Paying cash for her next car
- Getting an automated perimeter for her VA eye clinic
Thank you for your (continuing and patient) attention. We hope that her work has helped make you better ophthalmic and optometric paraprofessionals.
Oh, yeah. One more thing. The opinions and information expressed in this and other works by Jan are not necessarily those of the VA, which has plenty of its own.
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