Course Title: Process and manage optical appliance orders
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2019
Course Code: OPSC5063C
Course Title: Process and manage optical appliance orders
School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4375 - Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing
Course Contact: Jade Cusworth
Course Contact Phone: 03 9925 8382
Course Contact Email: jade.cusworth@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Ralph Richter: ralph.richter@rmit.edu.au
Timothy Haigh: timothy.haigh@rmit.edu.au
Leigh Robinson: leigh.robinson@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 150
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to use specialised optical knowledge to place, check and service orders for spectacle frames and lenses.
This unit applies to optical dispensers who work according to prescriptions provided by optometrists or ophthalmologists.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTOPD005 Process and manage optical appliance orders |
Element: |
1. Place optical appliance orders |
Performance Criteria: |
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Element: |
2. Check optical appliance orders |
Performance Criteria: |
2. Check optical appliance orders 2.1 Verify details of order received against client record 2.2 Organise required equipment and materials 2.3 Check the spectacles on the focimeter to identify and verify powers, axes and centration 2.4 Determine any axis or centring error and apply Australian standards tolerances 2.5 Check lens surface for scratching and aberrations 2.6 Adjust frames to standard alignment and check for strain as appropriate 2.7 Clean spectacles using cleaning agents suited to the material 2.8 Fit appliances from checked orders to client. |
Element: |
3. Service optical orders |
Performance Criteria: |
3. Service optical appliance orders 3.1 Identify maintenance and adjustment requirements for optical appliances 3.2 Make minor repairs and identify when work needs to be referred to specialist frame repairer 3.3 Make standard frame adjustments to optical appliances 3.4 Fit and edge lenses according to scope of own job role and organisation requirements |
Element: |
4. Maintain equipment |
Performance Criteria: |
4. Maintain equipment 4.1 Clean equipment and attachments in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations and infection control procedures 4.2 Complete routine maintenance procedures on equipment in accordance with manufacturer's requirements 4.3 Store equipment and attachments in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations and organisation policies and procedures |
Learning Outcomes
See elements above
Details of Learning Activities
A combination of activities will support students learning in this course, such as:
• Face to face and or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in the course
• Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL), during simulations and classroom based learning
• Observations of performance in the workplace and industry placement or simulated environment will be a valuable part of your learning experience
• Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics
• Online discussion and activities support you to collaborate with other students in your course and debate and debate and discuss ideas
• Self directed study time to enhance and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts
• To further facilitate learning, students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow students by using the online learning platform
Teaching Schedule
FT19 Full time group
Semester 1
Week 11 to Week 18
Thursdays and Fridays afternoons, 2.00pm until 5.00pm
Commencing on 3rd May, 2019.
Semester 2
Week 1 to Week 7
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, 2.00pm until 5.00pm
Week 8 to Week 11
Thursday afternoons
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
- System for Ophthalmic Dispensing by C Brooks & I Borish
(Online resource available through Blackboard)
- Essentials of Ophthalmic Lens Finishing by Clifford W. Brooks
(Online resource available through Blackboard)
- PowerPoint Summary
- Additional learning materials available through CANVAS
- RMIT Library (www.rmit.edu.au/library)
Students should also make note of the Student Services and Study and Learning Centre that are available to all enrolled students (www.rmit.edu.au/studyandlearningcentre)
Overview of Assessment
Assessment Task 1: Quiz
Assessment Task 2: Workplace evidence Log Book
Assessment Tasks
Assessment task 1: 2 Case study. Due date 23/10/19
Assessment task 2: Online quiz. Due date 25/10/19
Assessment task 3: Evidence Log. Due date 18/10/19
Assessment Matrix
Course Overview: Access Course Overview