Clinical Dietician Associate

Under the guidance of Level I & II Clinical Dietitian Coordinate all phases of nutrition care including Nutrition assessment Nutrition care planning Nutrition monitoring Nutrition education and counseling of hospitalized patients Perform duties in support of and in compliance with performance improvement plans, JCI, and other licensing, accrediting, and regulatory agencies. Provide nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy integrated with the patient's medical goals. Evaluate, interpret, monitor and document the nutritional status and nutritional needs of hospitalized patients using established standards of care and practice guidelines. Identify and provide agespecific nutrition counseling to meet the cultural needs of the patients and their families. Suggest orders for diet, supplement, enteralparenteral nutrition per hospital policy. Function as an integral member of the clinical interdisciplinary team. Continuing professional education & update on nutrition information relevant to current practice theory eg. Guidelines for nutrition care. Other jobrelated tasksduties assigned by superiors. Job Task Under the guidance of Level I & II Clinical Dietitian Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement nutrition care plans and provides nutritional counseling. Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications. Inspect meals served for conformance to standards of palatability and appearance and accuracy of special diets as and when required. Participate and contribute to departmental quality initiatives. Be aware of departments? performance and objective. Carry out data collectionsupport in data collection. Adhere the safety norms of hospital and follow both patient safety and staff safety rules. Keeping upto date technically & applying new knowledge to follow nutritional practices & use knowledge of medical terminology. Documenting, transcribing, recording, storing or maintaining information in writtenelectronic form. Perform any jobrelated task as and when assigned by the superior.