THE OPHTHALMIC NURSE
CONTENTS 1 THE OPHTHALMIC PATIENT INTRODUCTION REGISTRATION FOR THE SIGHT-IMPAIRED OR SEVERELY SIGHT-IMPAIRED SEVERELY SIGHT IMPAIRED SIGHT IMPAIRED ASSISTANCE AND REHABILITATION VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS 2 THE OPHTHALMIC NURSE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS PATIENT INFORMATION AND TEACHING PROFESSIONAL ISSUES THE NURSE IN THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT THE NURSE IN THE ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT THE DAY CASE AND WARD NURSE THE NURSE IN THE THEATRE 3 OPHTHALMIC NURSING PROCEDURES AND INVESTIGATIONS GENERAL PRINCIPLES RECORDING VISUAL ACUITY GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS WHEN PERFORMING VISUAL ACUITY OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURES UTILISING ANTT PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLES AND PROTOCOL FOR OPHTHALMIC MEDICATION INSTILLATION/APPLICATION CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES 4 OCULAR HISTORY TAKING AND SLIT-LAMP EXAMINATION OCULAR HISTORY TAKING SLIT-LAMP EXAMINATION GOLDMANN APPLANATION TONOMETRY EXAMINING THE EYE REMOVING A CONJUNCTIVAL OR CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY REMOVING A CORNEAL RUST RING TESTING FOR TEAR FILM BREAK-UP RIME: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF TEARS IRRIGATING THE EYE 5 THE GLOBE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW CONTENTS NERVE SUPPLY TO THE EYE BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE EYE 6 THE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES, INCLUDING REMOVAL OF AN EYE THE ORBIT THE EYELIDS CONDITIONS OF THE ORBIT REMOVAL OF AN EYE PATIENT’S NEEDS CONDITIONS OF THE EYELIDS 7 THE LACRIMAL SYSTEM AND TEAR FILM LACRIMAL GLAND LACRIMAL DRAINAGE SYSTEM TEAR FILM CONDITIONS OF THE LACRIMAL SYSTEM 8 THE CONJUNCTIVA AND SCLERA THE CONJUNCTIVA CONDITIONS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA THE SCLERA CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE SCLERA 9 THE CORNEA MEASUREMENTS FIVE LAYERS OF THE CORNEA FUNCTION OF THE CORNEA PHYSIOLOGY OF CORNEAL SYMPTOMS CONDITIONS OF THE CORNEA EYE DONORS HUMAN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE TRANSPLANTATION OSTEO-ODONTO-KERAPROSTHESIS SURGERY CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY ASTIGMATIC KERATOTOMY PACHYMETRY AND SPECULAR PHOTOMICROSCOPY MANAGEMENT OF CORNEAL PAIN 10 THE UVEAL TRACT THE CHOROID THE CILIARY BODY THE IRIS CONDITIONS OF THE UVEAL TRACT 11 GLAUCOMA METHODS OF MEASURING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY RELATED DISORDERS – GLAUCOMA 12 THE CRYSTALLINE LENS CONTENTS CATARACT COMPLICATIONS OF CATARACT EXTRACTION CATARACT OPERATIONS APHAKIA DISLOCATED LENS 13 THE RETINA, OPTIC NERVE AND VITREOUS HUMOUR THE RETINA OPTIC NERVE THE VITREOUS HUMOUR COLOUR VISION RHODOPSIN CONDITIONS OF THE RETINA RETINAL HAEMORRHAGE RETINOPATHIES RETINAL TUMOUR: RETINOBLASTOMA CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS TOXOPLASMOSIS TOXOCARIASIS CONDITIONS OF THE MACULA CENTRAL SEROUS RETINOPATHY CYSTOID MACULAR OEDEMA/DEGENERATION CONDITIONS OF THE OPTIC NERVE RETROBULBAR NEURITIS OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY CONDITIONS OF THE VITREOUS HUMOUR POSTERIOR VITREOUS DETACHMENT 14 THE EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLES EYE MOVEMENTS STRABISMUS OR SQUINT PARALYTIC SQUINT 15 OPHTHALMIC TRAUMA 16 OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMIC DISEASE DIABETES MELLITUS ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME THYROID DISEASE HYPERTENSION GIANT CELL ARTERITIS HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS HERPES ZOSTER VIRUS TUBERCULOSIS SARCOID BEHÇET’S DISEASE SYPHILIS TOXOCARA RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS CONTENTS STILL’S DISEASE ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND CROHN’S DISEASE NEUROFIBROMATOSIS MIGRAINE 17 OPHTHALMIC DRUGS MYDRIATICS NOTES ON MYDRIATICS MIOTICS DRUGS OF CHOICE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA ANTIBIOTICS ANTIVIRAL AGENTS CORTICOSTEROIDS LOCAL ANAESTHETICS DIAGNOSTIC DROPS TEAR REPLACEMENT MISCELLANEOUS GENERAL NOTE