Conducts comprehensive nutritional assessments of patients to create tailored nutrition care plans, which involve interviewing patients, educating them and their families on nutritional issues, evaluating diet appropriateness, initiating medical nutrition therapy, recommending meal substitutions, coordinating with food production, and conducting nutritional assessments for patients on enteral or parenteral nutrition. Collaborates with healthcare professionals for coordinated patient care, contributes expertise in multidisciplinary rounds and meetings, develops wellness and disease prevention programs, works with catering services for therapeutic diets, maintains patient education materials, handles administrative/educational duties related to public health nutrition programs, and ensure professional growth through departmental competencies.

Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive nutritional assessments of patients to identify individual dietary needs and ...