Optometrist for Camp Lejeune

Job Description

Job Description

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, and their families.
Your core duty will be to 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

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:

• 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
• Evaluation 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 autokeratometry.
• 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

MDPerm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MDPerm does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.