Clinical Dietician

The Clinical Dietician reflects the mission, vision, and values of the organization, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Clinical Dietician’s role is to develop and implement nutrition therapy plans for patients by evaluating nutrition parameters and selecting appropriate therapies to restore or maintain optimal nutritional status. Provide nutrition education for the community and other health professionals as a means of ensuring comprehensive care through the clinic.

Provide nutritional assessments utilizing medical information, anthropometric data, laboratory values and diet history

Develop nutrition care plans by selecting nutrition therapies to meet the medical, developmental and socio-cultural needs, age and interest level of the patient

Identify appropriate nutritional interventions

Provide recommendations regarding calorie / protein supplements, enteral support and vitamin / mineral supplements and other commercial products

Select appropriate feeding route and enteral product including additional modular or vitamin / mineral preparations

Counsel patients on appropriate nutrition therapy for disease state, desired outcomes and patient behaviour objectives

Evaluate effectiveness of intervention utilizing BMI, changes in medical condition and tolerance to therapy

Educate on diet according to disease state, medical condition and health risk

Provide written documentation of all patient assessment and follow-up consultation sessions in the medical record

Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary team

Participate in in-service training for department staff

Participate on department teams as assigned

Orient relief personnel and new staff to area of practice to provide consistent patient

Contact as needed with the multi-disciplinary team to implement care plans, provide education and develop programs

Ongoing communication as needed with families of patients, providers and other resources as needed by the individual patient

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Consulting

Industries Hospitals and Health Care and Hospitals

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