DIETETIC AST PD

Under the direction of the Nutrition and Dietary Supervisor 2, this position is responsible for processing and verifying diet orders, ensuring therapeutic accuracy based on the diet order, including infant and tube feeding formulas and fortified breast milk orders. This position modifies patient menus, generates cost reports, production sheets, forecast reports and tallies. This position will work in the diet office, diet kitchen, breastmilk storage rooms, and on nursing units, including direct contact with patients to identify food service-related concerns. This position will assist in identifying patients with nutritional concerns when interviewing patients for daily and next day menu choices, food preferences and food allergy information, monitoring tolerance of diet and nourishments, and providing basic diet information within limits of the diet order. This position will incorporate the patients food requests into the patients file in Computrition and may assist in entering the pat