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OPTICIANS

"'On The Street'"

Britt Higgins Reports!

Question: What do you feel is a great and necessary strength or skill to have as an optician?

Hailey Hicks, Rhode Island

" A great optician should excel and have strengths in many areas, but one essential skill is listening. The skill to listen and connect to your patients sets you above the rest. Learning how they will be using their new glasses or the expectations they have for them allows you to select what choices will be best for them. Also, in the case of any troubleshooting, listening thoroughly to your patient and what they have been experiencing will give you the tools you need to help solve any difficulties they may be having."

Kasie Sherman, Tennessee

"It isn't easy to choose just one attribute. There's the usual answers: good customer service, patience, positivity. But, I think one that we don't emphasize enough, especially in the educational scenario, is

critical assessment. In the year I've been working, the demand of the job, my ability to assess both before a patient orders and troubleshoot after they've gotten their glasses has been far greater than the educational setting implies. And, from my understanding, over the last decade or more, the pressure of immediate visual success has increased along with the faster pace of life and more immediacy of other day-to-day needs and wants."

Mario Calderón, New York

The skill is listening for and understanding the patients’ needs according to their lifestyle. Selecting a pair of glasses is a decision that the patient will have to live with for at least a year or on occasion, as in the case of one of my patients last week who hasn’t gotten a new pair of glasses in 15 years

Zach McDaniel, Tennessee

The best skill, I feel, you can have as an optician is communicating with your patients, whether it be putting your words into layman's terms or just being personable.