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Managing vision and eye health problems

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Module overview: This module teaches learners how to safely manage and refer people with common vision and eye health problems.

Module duration: 3 hours online, followed by supervised practice as needed

Before you start, check that you have completed these modules:

Resources you will need

 

To clean eyelashes and eyelids

  • Clean gloves
  • Clean gauze or cloth
  • Cotton buds
  • Clean water or sterile saline solution that has not expired

To provide eye drops or antibiotic ointment

  • Clean gloves
  • Clean gauze or clean cloth
  • Eye drops and antibiotic eye ointment (if qualified to provide medication)

To apply a hot compress

  • Hot water
  • Clean gauze or cloth

To remove inward turning eyelashes

  • Clean gloves
  • Sterile tweezers

To wash out eye

  • A large syringe or a jug with a pouring spout
  • Bowl or kidney dish
  • Clean water or sterile saline solution that has not expired
  • Clean towel

To turn eyelid outward

  • Clean gloves
  • Cotton buds

To make and apply an eye cover

  • Cotton wool
  • Gauze
  • Adhesive tape
  • Scissors
  • Thin cardboard
  • Circular object about 8 centimetres wide (for example a cup)
  • Pen or pencil

To remove a foreign body

  • Clean gloves
  • Cotton buds or clean cloth
  • Cooled boiled water or sterile saline solution that has not expired

To test pupil reactions and eye movements

  • Pen torch

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Resources

Click on the links below to download and print the following:

Lessons

1. Introduction to managing vision and eye health problems in primary care

2 Topics

  1. 1.1. Key words
  2. 1.2. Introduction to primary eye care guides

2. How to manage vision problems

3 Topics

  1. 2.1. How to use Guide one: Vision problems
  2. 2.2. Introduction to near vision spectacles
  3. 2.3. How to refer

3. How to manage red eye problems

5 Topics

  1. 3.1. How to use Guide two: Red eye problems
  2. 3.2. How to clean eyelashes and eyelids
  3. 3.3. How to provide a topical antibiotic
  4. 3.4. How to give eye drops
  5. 3.5. How to give allergy or pain medication

4. How to manage external eye problems

3 Topics

  1. 4.1. How to use Guide three: External eye problems
  2. 4.2. How to apply a hot compress
  3. 4.3. How to remove inward turning eyelashes

5. How to manage vision and eye health problems in children three years and younger

2 Topics

  1. 5.1. How to use Guide four: Children three years and younger
  2. 5.2. Vitamin A supplements for children

6. How to manage eye injuries

6 Topics

  1. 6.1. How to use Guide five: Eye injuries
  2. 6.2. How to wash out an eye
  3. 6.3. How to turn an eyelid outward
  4. 6.4. How to make and apply an eye cover
  5. 6.5. How to remove a foreign body
  6. 6.6. How to test pupil reactions and eye movements

7. Post-module quiz and acknowledgements

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