ID Opto Juris case studies
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The Idaho Optometry Jurisprudence Examination is the law-and-rules component of optometry licensure in Idaho, where the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL) regulates optometry as one of its health professions. The subject matter is the regulatory framework itself: the Optometry Practice Act and DOPL's administrative rules, scope of permitted procedures, licensure and renewal obligations, standards of conduct and grounds for discipline, and patient record and confidentiality duties. The ID Opto Juris case studies are 5 cases and about 3,901 words.
1The New Licensee and the Glaucoma Work-Up
Alvarez received her Idaho optometry license ten weeks ago after six years of practice in another state. She completed a 40-hour therapeutic pharmaceutical agent course and a national therapeutic examination during optometry school, but her Idaho application was for the basic license only, and she never applied for the therapeutic credential.
633 words, about 3 min2The Task List: What Unlicensed Staff May Do
A two-doctor practice employs three unlicensed optometric technicians and has a written "task list" prepared by the senior doctor. Technicians perform non-contact tonometry, auto-refraction, lensometry, and visual acuity; instill tropicamide 1% and phenylephrine 2.5%; perform Goldmann applanation tonometry; teach a patient to insert and remove soft lenses after the doctor has determined the parameters; run "vision therapy" sessions alone with a nine-year-old in a room out of sight; and telephone a patient to say "your pressure was 24, that's fine, no need to come back." Technicians also stamp the doctors' signatures on spectacle prescriptions.
784 words, about 4 min3Closing a Practice: Four Requests in One Week
Okafor is closing her solo practice after 22 years and moving out of state next month. Four requests land on her desk in the same week.
810 words, about 4 min4The Lapsed License, the Short CE File, and the Pending DUI
Bennett's Idaho license lapsed when her renewal was submitted 19 days late. The online portal had shown "pending," so she kept working those 19 days: full exams, a contact lens prescription, and co-management of a post-operative cataract patient.
857 words, about 4 min5The Impaired Partner and the Marketing Arrangement
At a four-doctor group, staff have noticed for three months that Dr. Reyes arrives smelling of alcohol, has twice dropped trial lenses, and once dozed at the slit lamp.
817 words, about 4 min