Dietetic Technician Per Diem

• 5/40 - Cover Weekends as needed
  

• Check trays for accuracy
• Answer phones
• Print meal tickets
• Utilize Foodservice software

Review patient charts.

Interpret lab values as related to nutritional status.

Interview patients on admission or change in diet prescription in order to obtain diet history and food preferences.

Utilize Foodservice Software; look up patients by units and/or by name; search for correct meal period and day of the week; modify therapeutic diets in Foodservice Software; print meal tickets and tallies.

Read diet orders allergies and nutrient goals modifying items as appropriate.

Chart initial nutritional screening in patient chart; give diet instruction to patients on normal restricted sodium restricted cholesterol and food and drug interactions in preparation for discharge; answer phone calls in the Diet Office.

Assist Dietitians in instruction of patients on special diets; write special menus; recommend supplemental feedings and write enteral formula recipes.

Supervise the tray line workers preparation of food trays for patients to assure accuracy of diet and proper portioning appearance and arrangement of food on trays; check high risk trays.

Supervise food service hostesses doing patient meal delivery.

Solve problems related to nutrition services such as assisting in patient discharge follow-up.

Tally calorie intakes for malnourished patients to assure adequate intake; provide input in planning of patient menus.

Experience: Experience in a food or nutritional environment.

Knowledge of: Nutrition as a basis for health; therapeutic nutrition; body physiology; basic principles methods and techniques of diet planning food preparation and presentation; difference in age-specific nutritional care of patients; techniques of interviewing counseling and teaching; basic supervisory skills.

Ability to: Assess through interview chart and lab value analysis the nutritional status of a patient; plan menus that meet the nutritional needs of patients within a hospital setting and following discharge; to assist the Dietitians in a variety of ways in implementing the nutrition care plan; instruct patients and their families at their level of understanding and age; motivate food service workers to achieve established quality and quantity standards.

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