Dietitian vs clinical nutritionist

Differences between dietitian and clinical nutritionist duties and responsibilities

Dietitian example responsibilities.

• Manage the anemia status of patients by reviewing necessary lab data and initiating or adjusting medication doses.
• Prioritize initial/quarterly/consult assessments, interventions and progress monitoring for long-term care, rehabilitation and post acute patients.
• Design and provide individualize nutrition counseling to promote healthy behavior modifications for a variety of home health care patients.
• Counsele post-op patients to ensure dietary compliance, nutritional adequacy and formulation of weight management goals throughout their post-operative course.
• Perform indirect calorimetry to measure resting metabolic rates (RMR).
• Work as part of research team on a large-scale NIH clinical trial.
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Clinical nutritionist example responsibilities.

• Manage the anemia status of patients by reviewing necessary lab data and initiating or adjusting medication doses.
• Train patients in diabetes self-management and continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pump therapy).
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary rounds to further evaluate patients at increase nutritional risk and discuss the appropriate route for recovery.
• Initiate application process for ADA approve diabetes education program.
• Conduct medical nutrition management on outpatient basis; conduct weight control and diabetes education groups.
• Participate in interdisciplinary biweekly meetings for rehabilitation unit.
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