Other duties include, but are not limited to,

• Conducts a comprehensive nutrition assessment for patients at nutritional risk. Develops and implements an individualized plan for medical nutrition therapy in accordance with the patient’s medical program goals and objectives. 
• Calculates nutritional requirements (calories, protein, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, electrolytes, fluid) and necessary diet restrictions or food/drug interactions. Diet prescribed is tailored to each individual client according to physical and metabolic needs and designs the nutritional treatment plan with consideration for Psychosocial, behavioral, ethnic and cultural factors to obtain desirable outcomes and promote long term adherence to a medical nutritional care plan. 
• Utilizes assessment and evaluation techniques that consider age-specific needs as well as cultural, religious, and ethnic concerns. 
• Based on approved scope of practice level, writes orders for labs, diets, consults or performs any other authorized activities. 
• Evaluates and monitors the effectiveness and outcome of medical nutrition therapy interventions. Evaluates the patient’s response to care based on identified, measurable outcomes and reviews the plan as appropriate. 
• Documents nutrition plan in the patients’ medical record, including nutrition assessment data, medical nutrition therapy initiated and recommendations, results of nutrition counseling and discharge planning. Patient education sessions may be conducted on an individual basis.

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