Clinical Dietician

• Patient Nutrition Assessment: Evaluate patients by reviewing medical history, blood work, lab results, medications, physical status, and weight reports to identify malnutrition or nutritional risk. \[1, 2, 3]
• Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT): Design and implement targeted dietary plans for patients dealing with chronic or acute conditions like diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease, renal disorders, or post-surgical recovery.
• Specialized Feeding Support: Manage and calculate specialized nutrition regimens, including enteral nutrition (feeding tubes) and parenteral/intravenous nutrition for patients who cannot eat normally by mouth.
• Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration: Attend medical rounds, consult with physicians, nurses, and speech-language pathologists, and coordinate care plans.
• Patient and Family Education: Counsel patients and their families on modified diets, food-drug interactions, reading food labels, and long-term eating habits before and after discharge.
• Monitoring and Adjustments: Track daily food/calorie intake, adjust meal plans or supplement orders as recovery progresses, and document interventions in electronic medical records.
• Food Service \& Menu Management: In some roles, food service or management dietitians oversee hospital kitchens, ensure menus meet national nutrition and safety standards, and accommodate specific food allergies or cultural

Pay

From ₹18,000.00 per month

Benefits

• Provident Fund

Work Location

In person