Module details
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
Antes de comenzar, compruebe que haya completado los siguientes módulos:
Recursos necesarios
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 cloth
- Eye drops and antibiotic eye ointment (if qualified to provide medication)
To apply a warm 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
- Towel
To turn eyelid outward
- Clean gloves
- Cotton buds
To make an 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
- Linterna tipo pluma
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