Supporting mental health in your colleagues, your patients and you
At times of crisis, your mental health can be your greatest asset. Can you recognise the signs of mental illness?
Telehealth and supporting you to triage urgent and critical care
More information and resources to support triaging of urgent and critical care and an update on telehealth and the role you can play in supporting patients by offering telehealth services.
Tagged as: COVID-19, Employment, Future, Member services, Patient management, Sector changes
We answer members’ questions about coronavirus
Optometry Australia’s help desk optometrists have been busy answering members’ questions about coronavirus and have compiled them into a list of clinical questions and answers, providing helpful hints for practitioners during the coronavirus crisis. Check them out.
Tagged as: COVID-19, Member services, Patient management, Practice equipment, Practice notes
Free dry eye website and directory connects patients to practitioners
Optometrist Leigh Plowman has established a dry eye website, Dry Eye Directory, to connect patients to optometrists who treat the condition.
Tagged as: Dry eye
Effects of virtual reality on myopia to be discussed at WAVE 2020
Studies on the effects of virtual reality on myopia have so far had mixed results, but will be discussed by optometrist Dr Kate Gifford at WAVE 2020.
Tagged as: Myopia, WAVE WA
Occupational optometry/safety eyewear guide for members to help prevent eye injuries
Optometry Australia has produced a free comprehensive occupational optometry/safety eyewear guide for members which will help them prevent workplace eye injuries that cost the nation more than $155 million a year.
Tagged as: Patient management, Pharma
Spectacles remain the most common management for myopia, survey shows
Australian optometrists appear aware of emerging evidence around myopia treatment, but are not routinely adopting measures that have not yet received regulatory approval for modulating childhood myopia progression, a survey shows.
Tagged as: Myopia, Patient management
Artificial intelligence to aid optometry diagnosis, management and referrals
Research underway in Australia will develop an artificial intelligence platform to help optometrists improve the accuracy of their diagnosis, management and referral of patients.
Tagged as: Awards - honours - grants-bursaries, Future, Patient management, Practice equipment
Nearly half of domestic violence cases involve the eye, Super Sunday to hear
Forty-five per cent of domestic violence cases involve the eye and optometrists have an important role in identifying and supporting these ‘vulnerable patients,’ Super Sunday will hear.
Tagged as: Patient management, SuperSunday NSW
Grants for study tours to advance Australian optometry
Optometry Australia is offering scholarships to members to participate in individual and group study tours to investigate optometry advancements that would benefit the profession and our communities.
Tagged as: Future, International, Patient management, Scope of practice, Sector changes, Therapeutics