Course Title: Provide advice on optical appliances

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4375 Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing

Course Title: Provide advice on optical appliances

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	155T Vocational Health and Sciences	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2016
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2018, Term1 2019, Term1 2020

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	VE 2017 (OP48), VE 2017 (XXX2), VE 2017 (SS26)
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	VE 2018 (All)
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	VE 2019 (All)
OPSC5060C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	VE 2020 (All)

Course Contact: Jade Cusworth

Course Contact Phone: 03 9925 8382

Course Contact Email: jade.cusworth@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to determine client optical needs from prescriptions, and provide detailed technical advice on appliances.

This unit applies to optical dispensers who work according to prescriptions provided by optometrists or ophthalmologists.
 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	HLTOPD001 Provide advice on optical appliances
Elements:	1. Determine client optical needs 2. Provide appliance information to client

Learning Outcomes

See elements above
 

Overview of Assessment

Assessment task 1 - Dispensing Online Quizzes (3)

Assessment task 2 - Dispensing Case Studies (5)

Assessment task 3 - Evidence Log Book