Sections Flashcards
This Act shall be known and cited as the “Revised Optometry Law of 1995.”
Section 1. “Title”
AN ACT REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY, UPGRADING OPTOMETRIC EDUCATION, INTEGRATING OPTOMETRISTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8050]
Begun and held in ____________, on _______, the ___
day of July, ______.
Metro Manila; Monday; 25th; 1994
H. No. _____
S. No. _____
H. No. 14100
S. No. 1998
_____ Regular Session
Third
– The State recognizes the essential role of optometry as a profession in safeguarding and enhancing the health and general physical well-being of the citizenry. Optometric services shall therefore be promoted as a regular component of the primary health care system.
SECTION 2. Declaration of State Policy.
– The science and art of examining the human eye, analyzing the ocular function, prescribing and dispensing ophthalmic lenses, prisms, contact lenses and their accessories and solutions, low vision aids, and similar appliances and devices, conducting ocular exercises, vision training, orthoptics, installing prosthetics, using authorized diagnostic pharmaceutical agents (DPA), and other preventive or corrective measures or procedures for the aid, correction, rehabilitation or relief of the human eye, or to attain maximum vision and comfort.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(a) “Optometry”
– A person who has been certified by the Board of Optometry and registered with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) as being qualified to practice optometry in the Philippines.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(b) “Optometrist”
– A registered optometrist who is authorized to practice the profession in the Philippines by virtue of a valid certificate of registration and a valid professional license issued by the PRC for the purpose.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(c) “Optometrist in good standing”
– Specific topical drugs used to aid optometrists in their examination of the human eye. Until otherwise specified by the Board of Optometry, upon approval by the Secretary of the Department of Health (DOH) upon the recommendation of the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), these agents shall be limited to the following:
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(d) “Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents”
DPAs:
Phenyleprine
What percentage & use of drug?
2.5% ophthalmic drops; mydriatic
DPAs:
Tropicamide
What percentage & use of drug?
0.5% ophthalmic drops; mydriatic
DPAs:
Proparacaine
What percentage & use of drug?
0.5% ophthalmic drops; local anesthetic
DPAs:
Oxybuprocaine HCl
What percentage & use of drug?
0.4% ophthalmic drops; local anesthetic
DPAs:
Fluorecein strips
What is the use?
diagnostic dye
– A document signed by the Commissioner of the PRC and by all members of the Board of Optometry and bearing its seal, issued to an applicant who has satisfied the requirements for the practice of optometry. It shall serve as proof that the registrant is qualified to practice the profession in the Philippines.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(e) “Certificate of registration”
– A renewable card, issued by the PRC to a registered optometrist, indicating that he is competent and authorized to practice optometry in the Philippines. Until the loss of its validity or its expiration, such license shall serve as evidence that its bearer is an optometrist in good standing.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(f) “Professional license”
– A set of standards relating to the conduct, integrity and moral duties of optometrists, as prescribed by the duly integrated and accredited national organization of optometrists and adopted and promulgated by the Board of Optometry upon the approval by the PRC.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.
(g) “Code of professional ethics”
RA 8050 was approved on ___________?
June 7, 1995
