Patient Menu Asst I

Responsibilities

• Visits patients daily to ensure they have the opportunity to order meals based on their physician-ordered diet.
• Works in conjunction with other team members to perform various tasks within the department.
• Provides exemplary customer service by visiting assigned units to obtain daily meal selections from each patient.
• Enters compliant patient selections and preferences in CBORD (Computerized diet system).
• Organizes tray tickets for efficient meal production and delivery.
• Interacts with multi-disciplinary staff members on the units to gather valuable input related to patient meals.
• Communicates food quality and acceptance issues to department management, reflecting trends, and advises staff on adjusting trays for changed diet orders.
• Screens patients to identify risk levels, assesses patients at moderate nutritional risk, and develops and implements medical nutrition therapy for them.
• May be assigned to infants, children, adolescents, adults, or geriatric populations.
• Calculates patients’ nutrient intakes as ordered by physicians.
• Educates patients, their families, and significant others on simple nutritional regimes.
• Arranges for individual follow-up as needed.
• Plans meals for difficult and/or malnourished patients to reach clinical nutrition goals.
• Documents all aspects of patients' nutritional care in medical records.
• Collaborates with the healthcare team to recommend the least restrictive but acceptable nutrition regime based on knowledge of the patient’s condition, communicating verbally or via the medical record.
• Participates in precepting undergraduate dietetic students and training and coaching unit support staff regarding their food service role.
• Participates in orienting and training peers.

Qualifications

• High School diploma required
• Associate's degree in related field preferred
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience in a health care setting preferred