Unit 1 p2 health and social Visual impairment A visual impairment is when a person’s sense of sight is completely gone and the change is irreversible. However this can also mean someone is partially sighted‚ where their sight may be blurred or only able to see out of one eye. A visual impairment can be caused by age illness or incident; it prevents the patient being able to recognise people by face‚ body and other visual elements. To overcome tis barrier glasses may be worn in some partial sighted
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Wendie Lunn Unit 3 Health and Safety and Security Task 3 Risk Assessments A risk assessment is something that will be written up before an outing‚ the assessment covers what the risks are‚ who can be put at risk‚ where the risk could take place‚ when the risk is most likely to happen and how the risks will harm the service users. A risk assessment is always done before an activity so the service users and myself are kept safe and the service providers have a written step-by-step plan if anything
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For years‚ people with blurry vision have had the opportunity to see clearly and optometrists have made this possible. Some people may take their vision for granted‚ but the world would not be what it is today if all the people that wear glasses or contact lenses‚ which is over half of the people in the United States‚ did not have the chance to see everything around them clearly. The Optometry profession is dedicated to the prevention of blindness and the enhancement of visual function. Optometrists
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information to customers easily. * MARKETING * What is marketing? * Creating consumer wants & satisfying it * Finding ways to satisfy customers effectively & efficiently. * Is to be defined as value delivering process. * Definition * Kotler “Marketing is a social & managerial process by which individuals & groups obtain what they need and want through creating‚ offering and exchanging products of value with others”. * AMA “ Marketing is the process of planning & executing
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“Seeing Things Clearly” May 2001 Seeing Things Clearly The Profitability of Contact Lenses for European Eye Care Practitioners Key Findings • Patients who wear spectacles and contact lenses are up to 80% more profitable than those who wear only spectacles • Contact lens plus spectacles patients are more loyal • At least 60% of contact lens patients also buy their spectacles from their eye care professional Commissioned by Euromcontact London Business School Chapter
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A Report on the Principles of Marketing Orientation Executive Summary This report aims to outline the principles of Market Orientation and define the way in which a business unit within Experian (SME) applies these principles to its own marketing strategies. Through reviewing existing market orientation research and the dimensions within market orientation‚ customer orientation‚ competitor orientation and interfunctional co-ordination‚ the report will identify whether
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OCCUPATIONAL LENSES What is an Occupational Lens? An Occupational Lens (or Enhanced Reader) is a reading lens that has a Degression zone to incorporate the Intermediate prescription (and sometimes‚ depending on prescription‚ a good DV portion) Why dispense an Occupational Lens‚ instead of a Reading pair of glasses? With more and more people using Computers‚ Laptops and Smartphones‚ we demand more from the Intermediate zone than ever before. So by dispensing a pair of Reading glasses to a
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Google Glass‚ Good or Bad Google Glass‚ the future has arrived. Being able to use the computer with only your head has always been thought of as futuristic but this technology may already be here. Google announced its new project‚ project glass‚ in January 2013‚ and it took the world by surprise‚ no one thought it was capable to search the web‚ take a video‚ or even text someone using only glasses. Google X Lab is developing Glass and Project Glass leader Babak Parviz announced the new project
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I have a dream. I dream that one day I could bring light back to the visually impaired people. My mother advised me to pursue a medical profession. By heeding to her advice‚ I would have revisited the safe and conventional path of becoming an ophthalmologist. Instead I was filled with wonder why there had been surgeons who could replace hundreds of lenses in one day but nearly half of the patients develop complications a few weeks after the operation. It had been acknowledged that the incompatibility
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Tianna Borst English 103 A Timo K. 10/1/12 Babylon Revisited All people can relate to living with the past. We all make mistakes and we all stumble along our ways. Some make greater mistakes then others‚ but we all make them. Dealing with them as part of our present can sometimes be overwhelming. Although it is a difficult part of life‚ it is a part of life that we all can relate to. Some have to learn this lesson the tough way. Some learn that the past does not only hurt us now‚ but can affect
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