Description
Help healthcare users and caregivers with choosing meals from a modified therapeutic selective menu, explaining nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, food selection and preparation and providing and explaining materials and publications to support the nutrition care plan.
Alternative labels
educate healthcare user on nutrition
help healthcare users select meals
educate health care users on nutrition
teach healthcare users on nutrition
inform health care users on nutritional value of meals
Skill type
skill/competence
Skill reusability level
sector-specific
Relationships with occupations
Essential skill
Educate healthcare users on nutrition is an essential skill of the following occupations:
Dietetic technician: 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.
Dietitian: Dietitians assess specific nutritional requirements of populations or individuals throughout their lives and translate this into advice which will maintain, reduce risk to, or restore people’s health. Using evidence-based approaches, dietitians work to empower individuals, families and groups to provide or select food which is nutritionally adequate, safe, tasty and sustainable. Beyond healthcare, dietitians improve the nutritional environment for all through governments, industry, academia and research.
Optional skill
Educate healthcare users on nutrition is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.
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