Optometrist for Camp Lejeune

Optometrist for Camp Lejeune, NC
As an Optometrist working at Camp Lejeune, you will serve the routine and acute eye-care needs of military personnel, their families
Your duties may include:
Refractive services, such as refractive surgery and prescribing spectacles or contact lenses
Ocular pathology treatment
Surgical co-management
Subspecialty focuses such as low vision, traumatic brain injury rehab, specialty contact lenses
Qualifications:
Degree: Doctor of Optometry.
Education: Graduate from a school or college approved by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) of the American Optometric Association.
Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as an optometrist in any state
Core Duties for Optometrists:
Examine, diagnose, treat or prescribe courses of treatment for those suffering from diseases, injuries, or disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as diagnose related systemic conditions.
Promote prevention and wellness, vision conservation, education and training activities, vision screenings, and positive eye and vision health behaviors.
Conduct vision research in a problem area of considerable scope and complexity which requires novel approaches and which results in answers to important questions or important changes in existing methods and techniques.
Advise and make professional clinical recommendations as to courses of action on problems and considerations of national scope in all areas of optometry.
Provide full spectrum of clinical services to treat the most complex optometric-related patient conditions.
The scope of privileging includes, but is not limited to:
Examination of eyes and the visual system to diagnose and treat eye diseases, injuries, and all
vision, accommodative, and binocular disorders; pre and post-operative assessment to include refractive surgery; assessment of color vision and perception; vision therapy; assessment, fitting
and prescribing of eyeglasses and contact lenses; prescription and use of diagnostic and
therapeutic medications and treatment for pain; superficial ocular foreign body removal and
epilation; testing and analysis of computerized diagnostic tests, laboratory tests, and imaging of
the eye and associated structures related to or affecting the eyes and/or visual system.
Optometrists also co-manage conditions that affect the ocular health and vision of their patients
or refer them to secondary/tertiary levels of care
Perform basic visual acuity tests.
Measure and record distance and near vision; perform color testing and pinhole vision.
Perform Contrast Sensitivity testing.
Perform Lensometry.
Perform autorefraction and autokeratometery.
Perform basic ocular motility tests.
Perform automated visual field testing.
Perform ophthalmic fundus photography.
Perform and assess Corneal topography and Pentacam scans.
Assist during surgery in the main and local operating rooms
Perform Glare Testing.
Teach Contact Lens care.
Hours/Schedule:
Monday-Friday; 730am-430pm