Your role
Optometrist
Your day as an optometrist at an eye clinic or optical practice. You call your patients, examine their eyes, and the spectacles they need are ordered from your eye test.
Kila describes the role: “Sees patients: eye tests, notes, prescriptions and results for those in their care.” You work from the clinicians’ screen, and the spectacles are ordered under Clinic › Spectacle orders.
When you sign in
Link to this section: When you sign inKila opens Clinic › My patients: “Call the next one, see your results and finish your notes.” Call next (1) calls the next patient to your room, and the menu has Spectacle orders (2): “From the eye test to the lens lab, and back to the patient.”
Your day
Link to this section: Your day- Call the next patient and examine them: the notes, what you found and what they need: See a patient.
- Their spectacles are ordered from the eye test and followed to the lens lab and back: Optical practice.
- Sign your notes under Notes to sign.
What you can do
Link to this section: What you can do- Read and write the clinical records of the patients in your care, and open another patient’s record in an emergency with a reason: Clinical privacy.
- See the spectacle orders under Clinic › Spectacle orders.
- Book appointments under Diary, Calendar and Appointments.
Everything the role is allowed to do
- General
- View dashboard
- Catalog
- View products and services
- Stock
- View stock
- Customers
- View customers
- Services
- View services and bookings; Book and manage appointments; Work on assigned job cards
What needs a manager
Link to this section: What needs a managerNo approval limits: anything that needs approval goes to someone else.
Needs a manager
The eye examination form. The owner chooses the consultation form, Optical, with the refraction, under Clinic office › Clinic settings: Optical practice.
Common questions
Link to this section: Common questionsWho makes the spectacle order? The optical counter, from your eye test: Optician.
Do I see the doctors’ patients? Only the patients in your care. In an emergency, use Emergency access: Clinical privacy.
Where is my registration kept? On your practitioner record, with your practising licence: Set up practitioners and their registrations.
- Optical practice: what Kila adds for eye care.
- Optician: the optical counter.
- Doctor: the clinicians’ screens, step by step.