Optometry Technician or Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:  An optometric technician is basically assistants of optometrists in which they provide vision correction to patients. As an optometry technician, their main duty is to help the optometrist with they eye examinations . Some duties of them are:

•    Assisting with patient eye care and examination
• Helping with the maintenance of the patient records.
• Handling technical duties which involves equipment and eyeglass preparation
• Do minor repairs of a broken or damaged glasses, eye contacts, etc. .
• Monitoring inventory with exam rooms or in the laboratory.  

However, their major responsibility is to care for their patients.

Salary: average of $22,260

Education:  In order to become an optometry technician, you must follow a formal education. First off, you must an associates degree in optician and complete you four-year university or college. Some courses you must take in order to become this technician are physiology, anatomy, algebra and computer science. Also, you must earn a paraoptometric certification to demonstrate your job skills. Finally, you also maintain a license on optometry.

Demand or Need for this profession: The job outlook for this employment is to expected to increase 24% between 2014 to 2024. Studies shows that it will keep increasing, therefore, the employment is pretty good.

Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be an assistant for an optometrist, because I would like to be bigger than  that like an optometrist and not an assistant. Overall, this job is not bad.