Guidance for Professional Practice content
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Knowledge, skills and performance
- Develop and maintain knowledge and skills
- Patient records
- The routine eye examination
- Examining patients with a disability
- Examining younger children
- Examining patients with learning disabilities
- Examining patients with specific learning difficulties or visual discomfort
- Examining patients with dementia or other acquired cognitive impairment
- The domiciliary eye examination
- Examining patients with diabetes mellitus
- Examining patients at risk from glaucoma
- Assessing and managing patients with low vision
- Examining and managing patients with an anomaly of binocular vision
- Examining patients who present with flashes and floaters
- Examining patients who present as an emergency
- Examining patients who drive
- Examining patients who work with display screen equipment or computers
- Prescribing spectacles
- Sale and supply of spectacles
- Contact lens equipment and facilities
- Fitting contact lenses
- Contact lens specification
- Contact lens supply
- Contact lens check-ups
- Specialist contact lenses
- Use and supply of drugs or medicines in optometric practice