Blog: Optical Insights
My Glasses Hurt! The Dispensing Challenge.
How Crucial are Dispensing Skills for the Optician? Consider the following question that just might be on your ABO test: Under which circumstance is a patient more likely to tolerate glasses that are made incorrectly? When the myope is given more minus power When the...
So… You Want to be an Optician?
Good! Come on board! Many Areas Have an Optician Shortage Now is a prime opportunity to be a student or apprentice. Pay rates are good since supply is down. In the national chain at which I work, apprentice pay is higher than the general wage, and that's just the...
Practice Tests Make the Difference for Optician Certification
If you are an optician studying for certification, taking practice tests can give you an edge. Optician trainees Often Take Their Certification Exams Multiple Times This is, no doubt, the reason why the ABO/NCLE now offers their National Boards four times a year...
Marketing Anti-glare Lenses, a Better Approach
Anti-glare Technology: a Marketing Challenge Anti-glare coating has been in retail for decades, and it was available decades before that in the scientific industry. Yet it really is amazing how many of our patient/customers have never hear of it, have no idea what its...
Optical Branding: The Positives and Negatives
Optical Branding, a Legacy of the 1980's Designer Explosion. In a recent Vision Monday article a veteran editor, Gloria Nicola, speaks of the positive contributions of optical branding. Addressing some of the joys of her work over the past 27 years, the article quotes...