Ophthalmic Diagnostic Technician 1 Full Time Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Plantation, FL

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The Ophthalmic Diagnostic Technologist 1 (ODT1) is competent in the theory, principles, and practice of eye care. ODT1 performs appropriate clinical testing in compliance with department standards and documents in the EMR system. ODT1 performs supervised ocular diagnostic testing using specialty-specific imaging devices and uploads images into the EMR system.

The Ophthalmic Diagnostic Technologist 1 will maintain competency in obtaining/recording the following items in the electronic medical record and perform ocular testing using specialty-specific imaging devices. 

Performs and documents the following items:  

• Reason for visit 

• Intraocular pressure such as Goldman, Tono-Pen, and I-Care 

• Chief complaint 

• Pachymetry 

• History of present illness 

• Insertion and removal of hard & soft contact lenses 

• Basic review of systems 

• Color vision test 

• Review systemic and ocular medications  

• Stereopsis test 

• Record allergies 

• Sensorimotor exam 

• Pharmacy information 

• Automated & manual perimetry 

• Family, social, medical, and ocular history 

• Color fundus photography 

• Visual acuity  

• Fluorescein angiography 

• Lensometry 

• ICG (Indocyanine Green) angiography 

• Manual refraction 

• Optical coherence tomography  

• Confrontational fields 

• Slit lamp photography  

• Humphrey visual fields 

• External photography 

• Amsler Grid visual fields 

• Ocular motility photography 

• Tangent screen visual fields 

• Automated Keratometry 

• Virtual Reality (VR) visual fields 

• A-scan biometry and IOL Master  

• Basic ocular motility 

• Contact/immersion A-Scan  

• Pupillary evaluation 

• High-resolution B-scan and standardized A-scan 

• Ocular surface assessment 

• Supervised globe and orbital exams 

• IVI Prep