New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 33 - STATE BOARD OF OPHTHALMIC DISPENSERS AND OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIANS
Subchapter 1 - APPRENTICESHIPS
Section 13:33-1.7 - Preparation of apprentice ophthalmic technicians for examination
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 13:33-1.7
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) It shall be the responsibility of preceptors of apprentice ophthalmic technicians to provide instruction to apprentices in the following areas:
1. Reading and transposing of a prescription or order for lenses;
2. Knowledge of and fabrication of lenses. Specifically, grinding,
processing, optical and geometrical centers, prisms, measurements, base curves, multifocal and colors (tints)
of all types of lenses;
3. Knowledge of frames and mountings,
sizes, measurements, and types of temples;
4. Using a vertometer,
lensometer, or similar instrument;
5. The statutes (52:17B-41.1 et
seq.) and rules (this chapter) governing the practice of ophthalmic dispensers and ophthalmic technicians in
New Jersey; and
6. Neutralizing and identifying a series of
single vision and multifocal lenses; and one of the following:
i. Marking up
and surfacing a pair of single vision or multifocal lenses from a pair of semifinished lens blanks;
or
ii. Making a complete pair of eyeglasses, given a pair of
uncut lenses and a frame or mounting.
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