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

care

• 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.