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CLINICAL DIETICIAN
Job Title: CLINICAL DIETICIAN
Job Code: 1149
FLSA: E
Job Level: 12
Revised Date: 04/01/2024
Job Family: JF 10
Occupational Summary
Conduct and implement comprehensive nutritional assessment for patients at nutritional risk; interpret biochemical and clinical data and screen, identify and monitor patients at nutritional risk; provide a variety of nutritional therapy intervention methods to resolve nutritional crisis and to ensure health maintenance.
Work Performed
Develop and implement individualized dietary care plans utilizing nutritional assessment methodology to include planning individualized menus and calculating and planning modified diets to meet nutritional and psychological needs, ensuring conformance to physicians orders and high standards of food quality.
Interview patients and review medical and dietary history to determine food preferences and dietary habits and to assess nutritional needs; correlate information with patients medical progress and plan meal patterns for the patient; make appropriate notations and recommendations on the patients chart.
Attend daily rounds and consult with physicians, nursing personnel and other members of the health care team to provide information regarding patients dietary history, to ensure compatibility of the dietary care plan with other health care plans, to discuss unusual dietary needs or preferences of patients, to resolve problems and to implement changes.
Evaluate effectiveness of dietary care plan in relation to patients medical progress and modify or revise dietary care plan as required; prepare and maintain various records and reports pertaining to dietary services provided.
Instruct patients and/or their families regarding hospital or home diets; develop and provide instructional materials to assist patients in their home dietary program; arrange for follow-up dietary care subsequent to discharge or transfer.
Plan and supervise the work of and provide technical guidance to ancillary personnel engaged in writing diets and preparing, serving and distributing food to patients.
Participate in rewriting and up dating diet manual.
Attend seminars and lectures to keep abreast of current research trends; participate as instructor in area of specialization in workshops, seminars, conferences and in-service education classes; provide instruction to interns and para-medical students.
Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.
Required Qualifications at this Level
Education/Training
Work requires bachelor's degree in dietetics/nutrition and American Dietetics Association (ADA) registry.
Experience
None required beyond education/training.
OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Skills
N/A
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
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