Orthoptist
Code 2267.2
Orthoptists diagnose and treat anomalies of binocular vision. They examine, assess and treat vision impairments, squint, amblyopia and eye motility disorders. Orthoptists apply these methods in particular in the fields of paediatrics, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmology, orthoptics, optometry, pleoptics and strabology assessing functional diseases of the eye for improving functional disorders of the visual system. They also provide counselling, preventive measures and training activities and may refract and prescribe glasses, such as prism corrective glasses.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- human anatomy
- anaesthetics
- professional documentation in health care
- pharmacology
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- medical informatics
- health care legislation
- ophthalmological examination methods
- neurophysiology
- neurology
- neuro-ophthalmology
- orthoptics
- pathology
- paediatrics
- psychology
- paediatric psychology
- medical terminology
- types of strabismus
- treatment of strabismus
- contact lens fitting techniques
- optics
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- receive patient referrals with eye conditions
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- diagnose problems of the visual system
- perform vision rehabilitation
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- test visual acuity
- manage healthcare users' data
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- listen actively
- promote inclusion
- provide therapy of the visual system
- conduct specialised orthoptic tests
- undertake healthcare examination
- carry out orthoptic treatments
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- supervise orthoptic treatments
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- promote ocular health
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences