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 Patient History is taken and a Clinical Examination performed

 Documenting the medical record
 Plan treatment guidelines and counsel patients
 Perform surgery. Explain and assure patients if complications occur.
 Follow up
 Referral in needed.
 Monitoring the functional improvement and if needed guide parents in

rehabilitation

b. Nurse / Technician

 Receive the patients and assist in clinical examination
 Refraction

 Orthoptic check up
 Counseling whenever patients/ parents
 Prepare the patients for surgery
 To monitor the patients who are admitted regarding pre and post operative care
 To maintain separate inpatient and outpatient record

 To maintain lab reports
 Explain discharge advice to patients
 Proactively ensure follow up through counseling.

VII. FURTHER READING / REFERENCES

1. Madhu Gupta, Bhupinder P Gupta, Anil Chauhan, and Ashok Bhardwaj Ocular morbidity

prevalence among school children in Shimla, Himachal, North India Indian J
Ophthalmol. 2009 Mar–Apr; 57(2): 133–138
2. Nirmalan PK, Vijayalakshmi P, Sheeladevi S, Kothari MB, Sundaresan K, Rahmathullah
L.,The Kariapatti pediatric eye evaluation project: baseline ophthalmic data of children
aged 15 years or younger in Southern India. Am J Ophthalmol. 2003 Oct;136 (4):703-9.

RESOURCES REQUIRED

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