Dietician
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.
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Essential Skills & Knowledge
Essential Skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise food industry
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on preparation of diet food
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct nutrition research
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- deal with emergency care situations
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- develop policies for nutritional programs
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow up nutrition care plan
- formulate dietetic intervention
- identify cause of nutritional imbalance
- identify nutritional properties of food
- identify the dietetic professional quality of care
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- measure nutritional health status of patients
- monitor the nutrition status of the individual
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- perform nutrition analysis
- prepare promotional materials on nutritition
- promote inclusion
- provide dietetic diagnosis
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- respond to changing situations in health care
- supervise food in healthcare
- support individuals on nutrition changes
- train medical staff on nutrition
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Essential Knowledge
- biological chemistry
- calculation of food energy
- chemistry
- clinical examinations in dietetics
- composition of diets
- counselling methods
- dietetics
- eating disorders
- epidemiology
- food allergies
- food hygiene rules
- food labels
- food legislation
- food science
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- nutrition of healthy persons
- nutritional adequacy of food intake
- obesity
- paediatrics
- pathology
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- psychology
- rehabilitation
- sociology
- supervision of persons
The “Essential Skills and Knowledge” content is derived from the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) framework for more information refer to ESCO's website.
Top sectors hiring Bahrainis for this job
- Human Health and Social Work Activities
- Wholesale and Retail Trade
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