Dietetic technician
Code 3259.5
Dietetic technicians assist dietitians in planning nutritional programmes and in planning menus for patients as part of an overall treatment plan under supervision of a dietitian. Under supervision of a dietitian, dietetic technicians assist dietitians in patient reviews, enteral feeding discharge planning, and clinical auditing which includes nutritional screening.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Operaciones comunes y flujos de trabajo en entornos de salud
- nutrition of healthy persons
- human anatomy
- composition of diets
- food preservation
- calculation of food energy
- dietetics
- professional documentation in health care
- hygiene in a health care setting
- medical informatics
- health care legislation
- counselling methods
- food hygiene rules
- food safety standards
Skills and competences
- analizar las características nutricionales de los alimentos
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- plan patient menus
- prepare infant formulae
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- use food preparation techniques
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- monitor stock level
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences