Office and Career Management for the Eyecare Paraprofessional or Global Imperative

Office and Career Management for the Eyecare Paraprofessional, Vol. 2

Author: Bill A Borover

The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to cover information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optomeric assisting, low vision, surgical assisting, opticianry, and contact lens examiners.

Bill Borover and Tammy Langley, COT clearly define office procedures such as handling patients, records, and marketing. Career management elements are addressed including job procurement and advancement. There is also a chapter on legal issues explaining documentation, malpractice, and ethics. Techniques are described on approaching daily eyecare practice activities with specific methods and helpful hints...even how to handle stress. This book can also serve as a complete guide for the manager of any eyecare practice.

Table of Contents:

Contents 

Section I. Office Procedures
Chapter 1. Records Management
Chapter 2. Marketing
Chapter 3. Patient Management
Chapter 4. Office Finances
Chapter 5. The Office Manager 

Section II. Career Management
Chapter 6. Resume and Interviews
Chapter 7. Success, Advancement, and Certification
Chapter 8. Stress and Burnout
Chapter 9. Legal Issues 

Appendix: Forms

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Global Imperative: An Interpretive History of the Spread of Humankind

Author: Robert P P Clark

Robert Clark delves into 100 millennia of human history to create a unified and consistent explanation for humankind’s inner need to spread itself across the globe. He examines key events from different eras, such as the voyages of the Chinese treasure fleet, the shaping of the Aztec’s trade system in MesoAmerica, the role of steam-powered transport in the supply of an English city, the rise of the gas-powered engine, and the digitization of information in the computer age, melding them together to form a framework for understanding the process of globalization.Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines including the physical sciences, biology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, sociology, and demography, Clark reveals the spread of humans and their cultures to be part of an ongoing struggle to supply the energy needs of an increasingly large and complex society. “Entropy” and “thermodynamics,” terms often ignored or misunderstood by social science students, clearly frame a fascinating vision of humans’ inherent tendency toward a globalized world.Although human expansion has drawn increasing attention in the last several decades, as this tumultuous century has progressed, Clark shows that the process of globalization is not a recent concept. From the very roots of the species, humankind has been driven by a range of internal and external factors to expand in order to survive the increasing complexity of human civilization.