Career Summary Of A Dietician

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an individual level.
In a hospital environment there are typically a group of dieticians to handle all of the inpatient diets. These dieticians in turn answer to their department manager, who works under a chairman. In the dietary department there are also several filing and appointment clerks who help the dieticians to manage their work and keep them on track. These clerks are required because of the high-volume of work a hospital dietician is responsible for. Even though dieticians must regularly meet with patients and physicians, schedules for dieticians are very loose, and they can usually pick their own hours as long as they are at work for a certain amount of time each week.
Dieticians are typically very friendly and social people. In the mornings, a dietary department will usually spend an hour or so casually talking about their current cases or new dietary breakthroughs. In these sessions, dieticians will discuss important new knowledge about their field and about ...

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must create a path towards better health for their patients. A dietician might be helping someone lose weight just like a physical therapist would help someone walk, or like a psychologist might help someone work towards obtaining a stable mind.



INTERVIEW

I interviewed Patricia Funk, a dietary nutritionist who has been practicing for twenty-five years. For the past five and a half years she has been actively teaching and working with patients at Shands at AGH. She works with about 15 other dietitians with similar job descriptions. Different groups of dietitians will typically work with defined groups of doctors or departments.
Every week Mrs. Funk is required to work ...

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