Wic site coordinator vs outpatient dietitian

Differences between wic site coordinator and outpatient dietitian duties and responsibilities

Wic site coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage caseload by providing care coordination to individuals with a primary intellectual/developmental disability diagnosis all of whom receive community-base waiver services.
• Ensure program compliance to policies and procedures of state and USDA.
• Communicate with physicians to obtain and update immunization records.
• Formulate individualized nutrition care plans, monitor progress, and adjust goal-oriented interventions as appropriate for patients in an outpatient setting.
• Design evidence-base education materials including breastfeeding, infant complementary feeding and prenatal nutrition base on community needs.
• Deliver nutritional education and provide nutrition assessment to low income pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants and children using participant-centered methods.
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Outpatient dietitian example responsibilities.

• Manage the anemia status of patients by reviewing necessary lab data and initiating or adjusting medication doses.
• Perform nutritional education, complete comprehensive assessments, calculate patient needs for nutrition support and determine patients at risk for malnutrition.
• Create educational lesson discussing hypertension prevention, risk factors, MNT.
• Monitor patients' nutrition status, laboratory values, diet tolerance, and motivate them to adhere to dietary/medications recommendations.
• Provide clinical nutrition coverage as needed for medical-surgical, telemetry, intensive care unit, behavioral health and rehabilitative floors.