Nutritional consultant vs clinical nutritionist

Differences between nutritional consultant and clinical nutritionist duties and responsibilities

Nutritional consultant example responsibilities.

• Manage the in-store dietitian program providing nutrition education, culinary workshops, food demonstrations, and nutritional assessments.
• Specialize in weight loss, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and lactose intolerance
• Provide nutrition assessments, counseling and diabetes education to visually impair population individually and in group setting.
• Ensure compliance to USDA requirements.
• Conduct BMI and weigh-ins for insurance members during health insurance out reach events.
• Help clients with food allergies and auto immune disorders to construct a healing diet.
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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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