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Overview
Develop the contact lens competencies you need to excel on your National Alliance of Canadian Optician Regulators (NACOR) licensing exam. In this comprehensive 3-hour course, you'll bridge the gap between your industry experience and educational foundation as you prepare for NACOR, exploring advanced hard and soft lens design and fitting techniques.
You'll tackle special considerations and modifications for unique ocular conditions that'll challenge your problem-solving skills. Every learning outcome aligns with the entry-level competencies set by NACOR, ensuring you're fully prepared for professional practice.
To be eligible to take this course, you must have a SAIT Optician Diploma or equivalent certification from the College of Opticians of Alberta.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- practice recognizing, identifying and naming eye pathologies as well as contact lens fitting anomalies
- calculate fitting parameters for RGP fitting case scenarios, as well as determine the ideal power of soft lenses. They will practice with the manual keratometer to ensure competency
- measure the back vertex power of soft contact lenses, as well as the back vertex power and diameter of gas-permeable lenses
- confirm competency in the insertion and removal of RGP lenses. Demonstrate how to clean both soft and hard lenses, and demonstrate how to reveal the patient's palpebral conjunctiva
- apply knowledge to theoretical case scenarios of contact lens patients with potential conditions and the potential causes of the problem. You'll practice a 6-month follow-up as well as slit lamp illuminations, including parallelpiped, specular reflection, direct retro-illumination from the iris, sclerotic scatter, and conical beam
Upcoming dates
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Registration for this course closes seven days prior to the start date.
After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Costs
Required equipment and supplies
Students are responsible for providing their own pens, note paper or tablet, calculator if desired.
Included in the purchase of this course, SAIT will provide:
- manual keratometers
- lensometer
- slit lamp
- visual acuity chart
- alcohol wipes
- gas permeable lenses
- soft lenses
- RGP and soft lens solutions
- Q-Tip’s
- hand soap
- lens diameter gauge
- magnifier loupe
- test lenses
- calibration kits
- conversion charts for vertex and radius to diopters
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.