Skills Optometrist near Toronto (ON)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as an optometrist in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Optometrists (NOC 31111).

Tasks

  • Examine patients' eyes, conduct tests and use specialized instruments to determine visual efficiency
  • Hire and train staff
  • Prescribe treatment to conserve, improve and correct vision and other ocular disorders
  • Administer budget
  • Prescribe and fit eyeglasses and contact lenses and counsel on use and care
  • Counsel patients on visual hygiene, lighting arrangements, working distances and safety factors
  • Supervise staff
  • Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons when ocular or other diseases are found

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Projecting Outcomes
  • Examining and Diagnosing

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Projecting Outcomes
Estimating the results of an action or a series of actions.
Examining and Diagnosing
Assessing conditions through examination or diagnostic testing to determine appropriate treatments.
Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Treating People/Animals

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Treating People/Animals
Providing emergency care, therapy or other prescribed treatment for people and animals.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Communication Help - Communication
  • Liaising and Networking
  • Teaching and Training
  • Advising and Consulting
  • Interviewing

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Liaising and Networking
Developing alliances, contacts or partnerships, and exchanging information with others.
Teaching and Training
Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.
Advising and Consulting
Providing guidance and advice to enable decision-making about tasks, situations, and processes.
Interviewing
Conducting enquiries in a formal way to collect information or to determine opinions.
Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Processing Information
Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery Help - Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery
  • Using Specialized Instrumentation and Equipment

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Using Specialized Instrumentation and Equipment
Controlling, monitoring, calibrating and adjusting precision instrumentation.

Knowledge

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Mathematics and Science Help - Mathematics and Science
  • Mathematics
  • Biology

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Mathematics
Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus and their applications, principles, methods and function.
Biology
Knowledge of living organisms including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution and classification and their interdependencies and interactions with each other and the environment.

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Business, Finance and Management Help - Business, Finance and Management
  • Business Administration
  • Client Service

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

Business Administration
Knowledge of the principles and practices of managing businesses.
Client Service
Knowledge of principles and practices of providing service to clients to maintain and build organizational success.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Health Services Help - Health Services
  • Medicine
  • Therapy and Counselling

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

Medicine
Knowledge of body systems and processes and techniques to diagnose and treat human and animal injuries, diseases, conditions and deformities. This includes understanding treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health care measures.
Therapy and Counselling
Knowledge of principles and practices for diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and counselling.
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