general or specialized problems, such as kidney disease, diabetes, gastro-intestinal disease, spinal cord injury and numerous others. The area of critical care and nutrition support requires highly specialized knowledge on the part of the clinical dietitian in nutritional assessment, parenteral and enteral nutrition and critical care delivery systems. . .
Community Dietitian The community dietitian functions as a member of the community health team, assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups within the community. Planning, coordinating and evaluating the nutritional component of health care services. The community dietitian, is based in a hospital and participates in out-placement programs for patients in private homes, group care facilities or nursing homes. The dietitian monitors and evaluates the nutritional services provided to these patients.
Duties of a Community Dietitian include: Developing and implementing a plan of care based on nutritional needs and available sources Evaluating food service systems and making recommendations Planning and conducting studies promoting and providing training in nutrition. . . .
Research Dietitian The primary purpose of a Research Dietitian is to plan, investigate, interpret, evaluate and expand knowledge in one or more areas of dietetics. Research dietitians initiate, plan, carry out, and interpret their own research. It should also be noted that clinical dietitians are frequently called upon to assist physicians in UNIT - Therapeutic - - Therapeutic diets experimental or research projects of limited scope, such as evaluating the course of a given diet on the status of a patient. .
. . Teaching Dietitian The teaching dietitian usually has advanced preparation in dietetics or education, and is responsible for planning, conducting, and evaluating training programs, which may include responsibility for an internship program. The responsibilities for teaching varies.
For example, the continuing development of the professional dietetic staff, the in service training of the non professional staff and the instruction for patients is the function of all dietetic services. However, there are some situations where one or more dietitians are involved in the planning and conducting of training for dietetic interns, coordinated undergraduate students, medical students, medical and surgical interns, nurses, nursing students, house staff, and others