Doctor Preferences
The patient must be advised to have this done during their exam if they meet any of the following criteria:
1. 10 years old or younger, 50 years old or older Complete Exam
2. Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic Complete exam/follow up
3. Consultation with an ophthalmologist for retina care, cataract evaluation, YAG evaluation, or yearly complete exam
4. Complaints of new flashes or floaters
What is dilation?
What are the cornea and retina?
When all else is complete, this task is done to ensure every room is prepared for the next patient.
What is restocking exam rooms?
Scheduling exam for a patient complaining of excessive tearing in the mornings.
What is a routine exam?
This is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide and is often called the "silent thief of sight".
What is glaucoma?
When rooming a patient for a provider, these 4 things should be cleaned and/or prepped for the provider to use.
What is the slit lamp head and chin rests, Goldmann tip, phoropter, and computer w/ provider tab open?
This is the surgical removal of the globe.
What is evisceration?
This duty is completed after all patients for each provider have been worked up and telephone calls have been checked.
What is walking out patients for providers and scribes?
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What is rooming patients for providers and scribes?
A patient who is post-op from a retina surgery complaining of headaches and pain around the surgical eye should be scheduled with this priority.
What is an emergent same-day appointment?
This inflammatory condition of the uveal tract commonly presents with pain, photophobia, redness, and decreased vision.
What is uveitis?
These post-ops require an ARx and/or MRx.
Refractive POs and cataract POs.
Bonus for specifying 1-week POs, 3-week POs, and 3-month, 6-month 1-year refractive POs.
This condition is characterized by a white pupillary reflex in a pediatric patient.
What is retinoblastoma?
Typically done on Mondays and Wednesdays, this closing task ensures that we have enough supplies for the week for minor office procedures/emergency visits/post-ops.
What is bringing surgical instruments to surgery for sterilization?
A patient complaining of increased difficulty driving at nighttime due to care should be scheduled with this priority.
What is a routine appointment scheduled next available?
This corneal infection is considered an ocular emergency and is commonly associated with contact lens wear.
What is corneal ulcer?
This test is completed when a patients' complaints are likely related to cataracts and BCVA is not improvable past 20/30.
This type of lens fit results from increasing the base curve radius of a contact lens while maintaining the same diameter.
What is flatter and looser?
During downtime, this task is done to ensure timely communication with patients for medication refills, emergency triaging, post-op questions, etc.
What is checking telephone calls and patient portal messages?
A patient with sudden, painless loss of vision in one eye requires this scheduling priority.
What is an emergent same-day evaluation?
What is central retinal artery occlusion?
This test should be completed yearly with a diagnosis of macular degeneration.
What is Mac OCT?
Aqueous humor drains out into this part of the eye.
What is the canal of schlemm?
This task is done before leaving for the day to ensure that cold products are put away.
What is checking the breakroom?
A patient with stable cataracts requesting a glasses update falls into this scheduling category.
What is a routine appointment?
Cotton wool spots, flame hemorrhages, and AV nicking are classic findings in this disease.
What is hypertensive retinopathy?