Managing vision and eye health problems post-module quiz

Li is 20 years old. She comes to your clinic with:

– Red, itchy eyes
– Some eye watering
– No other discharge
– No pain.

She passed the distance vision screen.

ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለቦት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

Josephina is 45 years old. Her vision has worsened over the past six months. She visited her local health clinic where the health worker completed a primary eye care screen.

Josephina did not pass the distance vision screen because she could not correctly indicate the direction of the E’s on the top line of the distance E-chart.

የጤና ባለሙያው ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለበት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

While completing a primary eye care screen with a 4-month-old baby, you learn that the baby was pre-term (born too early).

ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለቦት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

What is the correct way to clean a person’s eyelids and eyelashes?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

What should you do if you are providing medication?

አራትን ምረጥ።

Josiah is a 38-year-old man. He comes to your clinic with a red lump on his left eyelid. It is not painful. Josiah passed the distance vision screen.

ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለቦት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

What is the correct process to follow when making a referral?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

When removing inward turning eyelashes, why is it important to use the tweezers to hold the eyelash at the bottom to pull it out?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

A person comes to your clinic with a burn injury to their eye. What action should you take?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

Jose, a 12-year-old boy, hurt his right eye while playing with friends. He fell and hit his eye on a gate. During his primary eye care screen, you find that the skin is broken around his eye, and he did not pass the distance vision screen.

ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለቦት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

Manu is a 55-year-old man. He comes to your clinic with a very small metal fragment in his eye. It is visible on the coloured part of his eye.

Should you try to remove the metal fragment?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

Rachel is a young woman who comes to your clinic with a small piece of grain in her eye. The grain is on the surface of her eye, it is not on the coloured part of the eye, and it does not pierce the eye.

You try to remove the grain with a cotton bud, but you are unable to. What should you do next?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

Olga, a 47-year-old woman, has started to find reading difficult due to her vision. In her primary eye care screen, she passed the distance vision screen but did not pass the near vision screen.

ምን እርምጃ መውሰድ አለቦት?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

You test a young woman’s pupil reactions. You notice her left pupil is larger than her right. Her left pupil gets smaller very slowly when shining a light into it compared to the right.

What is the result of the pupil reactions test?

አንዱን ይምረጡ።

In what situations is it useful to turn a person’s eyelid outward?

ሶስቱን ይምረጡ።