For Licensed Opticians Only

[BobV]

Simple project for all licensed opticians:

Please list what your job duties are and what your responsibilities are during a typical work day.

I don't want license rhetoric, just your daily routine.

Thanks.

Bob V.

[Traci]

Bob, as owner of my own optical shop - no doctor on staff, I do it all.

Open Shop. Check e-mail & paper mail, pay bills, post invoices, cleaning and maintenance, and all while taking care of my clients from the time they walk in the door doing frame selection, learning about their lifestyle/activities (index cards work great for taking notes and keeping close by), prescription analysis, ordering, job verification (don't have lab in shop at this time), dispensing, adjustments, and follow-up care. I also do Low Vision Consults in my optical. Keep in touch with the OMD's who refer their patients for low vision devices. Go to client homes to set up CCTV's and training on them (after business hours). Go home, feed the kids, put them to bed, drink a couple of beers and crash for the night. :cheers:

Oh yes, frame buying, inventory control, advertising & marketing, etc. . .

Not necessarily in the order written above. I work six days a week and love it - my job that is!

Traci

[Judy Canty]

Independent Owner/Optician

Hours: 9:30-5:30 Mon-Fri
9:30-7:00 Wed.
9:30-Noon Sat.

Most days, I eat breakfast in the store while I check e-mail from 8:30 until I open. Deliveries often come early, so I'm here for them.

Responsible for:
Frame inventory, purchasing and merchandising
Lens stock including lab orders, all benchwork including edging
Equipment maintainance
Facility maintainance, including floors, carpet and windows

Customer Service, lens and frame selection, fitting and adjustments including customer education, minor repairs

Recordkeeping including accounts payable and receiveable

MD detailing, maintaining contact with referring physicians and their staff.

Public relations including marketing

2 mornings per month I fit safety eyewear for ExxonMobil from 7:30-9:30. I open the store a few minutes late those days.

2 mornings per month I attend my Lions Club meeting to maintain my commitment to my community.

1 evening a week I teach at the local community college, however since the program has been cancelled, that's over at the end of the summer.

This does not include the time spent refining my skills and acquiring new ones at optical "events" whenever I can.

[Pete Hanlin]

• Review technical specifications for new and existing lens products
• Troubleshoot ECP and laboratory issues with processing and dispensing
• Provide input to manufacturing, marketing, sales, and logistics concerning technical aspects of lens products
• Create educational presentations for opticians...

Since I'm sure you meant what do LDOs do in the dispensary, I'll list my duties at the last optical in which I dispensed-

• Assist patients in selection of lens products, treatments, and ophthalmic frames
• Measure and verify proper alignment and fit, indicate lens parameters, and submit orders for ophthalmic devices to the laboratory
• Verify the conformance of completed eyewear to the parameters ordered by the refractionist (in my case, a Doctor of Optometry) and Optician
• Troubleshoot patient difficulties in using ophthalmic products
• Instruct patients on proper care of contact lenses (occasionally)
• Evaluate unintended side effects from prescription changes and make recommendations to the refractionist
• Supervise, schedule, train, and evaluate Optometric staff
• Evaluate third party plans and enroll the practice as appropriate
• Ensure practice conformity with HIPAA and other Federal and State regulations
• Edge and mount lenses in the finish laboratory owned by the practice
• Purchase frames, equipment, and lens products- maintain inventory of the same
• Direct the advertising campaigns of the practice
• Meriad other things I'm sure I'm forgetting

[Jedi]

BobV

I just want to get something clear, is this a list of things I should be doing or that I am really doing, like drinking coffee and shuffling papers, Oh, and my favorite, clockwatching! ;)

[BobV]

Jedi, drinkin' coffee is just fine. If you play solitaire, put it down.

Just need what you really do on the job.

Thanks for the laugh.

Bob V