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Welcome to
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Points to Ponder

The most perfect ophthalmic Rx can be
compromised if the eyewear does not
provide comfort and long-term wear-ability.

There is no right or wrong way to dispense
eyewear. There is only the Patient's way. Take
as much time as you need to fit their eyewear.

Patients deserve a pleasant experience.
Patients deserve as much time as they need.
Patients deserve custom-fitted prescription eyewear.

Opticianry is ultimately defined by how well the eyewear makes
contact with the Patient, not by the number of Customers served.
For the truly skilled Optician, the standard of care must include a
customized design and hands-on fitting of eyewear on each Patient.

Dentists, Manicurists and Hairstylists make direct, tactile contact with the
consumer. Likewise, Opticians must make direct contact with the Patient.
Hands-on-the-Patient Opticians, can determine by sense of touch how a
frame feels even in lieu of asking the Patient. Only an eyeglass merchant
routinely hands over prescription glasses with no hands-on assessment,
nor the appropriate ‘touch-and-feel’ required to custom fit the eyewear.

The customized fitting of eyewear involves more than just adjusting a nose
piece or bending a temple. It has to include the reshaping, bending, stretching,
twisting and artful sculpting of the frame components in order to personalize the
eyewear. Anything less will most likely compromise the patient's visual comfort
and long term wear-ability. The difference between adjusting and customizing is
what's different between today's eyewear merchants and yesterday's opticians.

Florida State Board of Opticianry
Required Equipment and Tools

An Optician is a skilled Health Care Professional.

An Optical Dispensary is a Health and Wellness Facility.

The following 10 items of equipment must be maintained in each office in which an Optician practices Opticianry:

Pupillary gauge

Thickness gauge

One set of hand tools necessary for the fitting of eyeglasses

One lensometer or vertometer or similar instrument

One colmascope or similar instrument, when manufacturing glass lenses on premises

One frame heater

One lens measure

Set of sample frames and mountings

Keratometer or similar instrument and slit lamp or similar instrument if fitting and adapting contact lenses pursuant to subsection 64B12-10.009(2), F.A.C.

Set of trial soft contact lenses, if fitting and adapting contact lenses pursuant to subsection 64B12-10.009(2), F.A.C.

64B12-10.007 Minimum Equipment Requirements.

Specific Authority 484.005(2) FS. Law Implemented 484.002(3), 484.005(2) FS.

History -- New 12-6-79, Formerly 21P-10.07. Amended 5-31-87.

Formerly 21P-10.007, 61G13-10.007, 59U-10.007. Amended 8-16-04. Click here for reference.

Florida State Board of Opticianry
Continuing Education Requirements
20 Hours Total Per Biennium For License Renewal

11 hrs. Technical (To include 4 Contact Lens hours if Florida Board Certified only)
2 hrs. Law
2 hrs. Prevention of Medical Errors
5 hrs. Elective (To include 1 HIV-AIDS hour upon first-time license renewal only)

See articles from fellow ECPs.

Books, lectures and tests can take an Optician's skills only so far.

It is time for direct, touch-and-feel, Hands-on-the-Patient training to happen.
Only one-on-one craftsmanship training does this. It cannot be learned virtually.

HANDS-ON-THE-PATIENT WORKSHOP TRAINING AVAILABLE HERE
"Opticianry is defined by how well the eyewear fits the patient."

American Board of Opticianry accredited and Florida State Board approved workshops
for Intermediate and Advanced Level Opticians in Hands-on-the-Patient Frame Fitting
are currently being offered under the sponsorship of POF, the Professional Opticians of
Florida. Those professionals interested in attending similar workshops should inquire here.