Opt 6620 Practice of Optometry (100% accurate answers)

How do we define an optometrist? correct answers ODs are the primary care professional for the eye. Optometrists examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorder of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures. Note that they also identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye. What is the scope of practice of an optometrist? correct answers OD's diagnose vision problems, ocular diseases, and systemic conditions with ocular manifestations. They prescribe medications, low vision rehabilitation, vision therapy, spectacle lenses, contact lenses, and perform certain surgical procedures. Counsel patients regarding surgical and non-surgical options. When did it first become legal to practice optometry and what state did this occur in? correct answers 1892. Charles Prentice of New York enacted a state statute that legalized the practice of optometry for the first time. When was the first association of optometrists formed and what was it called? correct answers 1898, the American Association of Opticians When did the AAO change their name to the American Optometric Association? correct answers 1919. Note that the AAO was first formed in 1898. Which state first passed a law that regulated the practice of optometry and when did this occur? correct answers Minnesota, 1901. This was nine years after optometry was first legalized in New York. When did Ohio enact its optometric practice law? correct answers 1919. Note that Ohio was the 34th state to do so. This was 27 years after NY first legalized the profession. What was the last jurisdiction to enact a practice of optometry law and when did this occur? correct answers The District of Columbia in 1924. This was 32 years after NY first legalized the profession. When did all of the states decide to accept NBEO test results, rather than having their own tests? correct answers 1995 In what year did states allow licensure by endorsement for optometrists who did not take the NBEO test? correct answers 2003 When did the NBEO change the test format to better integrate basic and clinical sciences? correct answers 2006 When did the AOA pass a Board certification process? correct answers 2009