Dietitian

**ROLE DESCRIPTION**:
Dietitians promote good dietary health and treat medical conditions by devising eating plans for patients based on the science of nutrition. As a dietitian you'll translate scientific information about nutrition into practical advice to help people make health-conscious decisions about food. You'll assess, diagnose and treat diet-related problems and aim to raise awareness of the link between food and health to prevent future problems

**DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION**:
Dietitians and nutritionists are experts in food and nutrition. Purpose of this department is to advise people on what to eat in order to lead a healthy lifestyle or achieve a specific goal related to the health of their patients. Dietary plans are prepared to meet the nutritional requirements of individual patients according to their medical charts.

**KEY RESULT AREAS**:
1. Outpatients for their nutrition assessment status.

2. Nutritional group education
- Conducting Patient education with patient and family about importance of Nutrition and consequences of malnutrition three times a week.

3. To ensure that appropriate medical nutrition therapy(MNT) and symptomatic nutrition management care is provided to all IP.

4. To co
- ordinate with ICU doctors regarding the medical management and nutritional care & needs of the patient.

5. Nutritional Report data on quarterly basis.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Nutrition and Diet**:
1. Follow the Cankids nutritional support SOP and provide Nutrition service delivery at the hospitals as per the roster

2. Take regular one to one and group sessions with the parents and children on Nutrition

3. Data entry of all nutrition intervention and keeping it updated

**Hygiene**:
4. Ensuring proper implementation of the Health and Hygiene Kit program

5. Ensuring proper implementation of the WASH program

6. Take regular one to one and group sessions with the parents and children on Hygiene

7. Support Hematological support to patients

8. To follow up blood donation camps by Cankids and making the blood available for families

**Operational**

**1. **Inpatients (IP)**

9. To do baseline nutrition assessment of children admitted under pediatric oncology department and to identify malnourished children for further interventions etc.

10. Daily rounds to be taken.

11. To calculate 24-hours recall of all IPD and plan nutrition intervention therapy as per the requirement.

12. Ensure charts for oral diet, Ryle’s tube feeds, TPN, PPN etc. depending on the requirements.

13. Counsel all IP for the importance of nutrition and risk of malnutrition, its consequences.

14. To ensure that appropriate medical nutrition therapy(MNT) and symptomatic nutrition management care is provided to all IP.

**2. **Outpatients (OPD)**

15. Outpatients for their nutrition assessment status.

16. To take 24 hours or 7 days recall and plan nutrition care for all out patients.

17. To ensure that patient is followed up in OPD on regular basis.

18. To provide preventive nutrition care for all well-nourished patients as well as patients in ACT (survivorship clinic).

19. To distribute nutrition supplements for OPD as well as IP provided by donors and cuddles foundation as per the nutritional demands and also maintaining the record of the same.

**3. **ICU**

20. Responsible to take daily rounds in ICU to ensure appropriate MNT is provided to critically ill pediatric patients,

21. To co
- ordinate with ICU doctors regarding the medical management and nutritional care & needs of the patient.

**4. **Food/Supplement arrangement & distribution**:
22. MDM (Mid-Day Meal) to provide Mid-day meal to all pediatric patients. It is distributed 5 days a week in the afternoon.

23. To ensure the quality and quantity of Mid-day meal tiffin’s and also to maintain the record of the same.

24. Coordinate with provider regarding quality, quantity and also the packaging of the meal tiffin’s.

25. Modifying Recipes according to Nutritional needs of the patients and seasonal availability.

26. Special Supplements
- To identify eligible patients for Special Supplements, maintaining a record of total number of supplements distributed in a month and also following up with the outcome of supplements.

27. To recommend a list of Nutritional supplements and co-ordinate for the procurement of supplements with donors.

**Education & Training**:
28. Nutritional group education
- Conducting Patient education with patient and family about importance of Nutrition and consequences of malnutrition three times a week and once in a month on rotational basis in parents support group.

29. To provide orientation of Hospital work to Cankids Staff/ New Joiners/ Interns and to train new joiners.

**Team Responsibilities**:
30. To attend monthly meet with Cankids team to make the monthly report.

31. To provide an indent and co-ordinate with Cankids staff regarding delivery of Nutritional supplements.

**Research/Audits**:
32. To make and maintain