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COVID-19 Vaccines: Can You Mandate Them Among Staff?

Practice Management

By Practice Growth

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe are breathing a sigh of relief as vaccination efforts gain momentum. As an employ ...

Protecting Your Patients, Your Employees, and Yourself in the Midst of an Outbreak

Practice Management

By Practice Growth

On March 11, the World Health Organization’s Director General declared coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, a pandemic. “Pandemic” ...

Getting Started: Hiring Staff

Practice Management

By Ian Davies, OD

OK, so you have the OD certificate neatly framed, state boards passed, couple of years retail experience under the belt and now it’s time to ope ...

HR Checklist For Bringing Back Furloughed Employees

Human Resources

By Kate Gettinger, OD

As many businesses are starting to reopen after being shut down for most of the spring due to the pandemic, many owners and managers are wondering how ...

Keeping Up with PPP Changes – How Your Practice May Be Affected

Financial

By Mary Hollis Stuck

Months after the government began requiring shut downs of many businesses, optometry practices across the nation have re-opened. This means implementi ...

How to Supercharge Profits on Lenses

Practice Management

By Kayla Groves

Eyewear sales account for over 60% of an optometric practice’s gross revenue. With those statistics in mind, the doctor must pay careful attenti ...

Do Corporate Wellness Programs Make Sense for Practice Staff?

Human Resources

By Practice Growth

Corporate wellness programs are organized ways to promote healthier behaviors in staff, and these can exist at multiple levels. Some programs may have ...

Employee Growth: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Human Resources

By Keli O'Connor, COMT, ABOC

It's a question that is asked at virtually every job interview: "Where do you see yourself in the next five years?" Nobody dreams of remaining stagnan ...

How to Identify Substance Abuse in Employees

Practice Management

By Kate Gettinger, OD

Being able to spot the signs of addiction in the workplace can be beneficial, both for workplace productivity but also from a public health standpoint ...

How To Avoid Eye Care Practitioner Burnout

Work/Life Balance

By Kate Gettinger, OD

Now, perhaps more than ever, eye care practitioners around the country are feeling the effects of physical and emotional burnout. 2020 was supposed to ...