Diet Technician
Location: Minneapolis Minnesota
Description: Hennepin County Medical Center is at present recruited Diet Technician right now, this vacancy will be placed in Minnesota. For detail informations about this vacancy opportunity please read the description below. Introduction
Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) offers employment opportunities in a variety of settings, including our downtown Minneapolis hospital and clinics, and neighborhood clinics throughout the metro area. We are committed to creating a culturally competent and inclusive work and care environment for patients, families, and staff, and we encourage interested applicants with bilingual and bicultural skills to apply for positions at HCMC.
This position is represented by a collective bargaining unit (union).
Responsibilities
- Monitoring and maintaining patient orders, admissions, discharges, and transfers using the
- May complete nutrition screening; determines the level of nutritional risk for patients, able to
and notifies the dietitian of patients deemed at nutritional risk who require attention
- May complete calorie count calculations and communicate results as appropriate
- Menu correction based on special diet needs
- Direct tray service; checking each tray for accuracy and adherence to diet order
- May prepare and deliver enteral formulas as appropriate
- Answering call center phone calls and problem solving
- May provide nutrition education as required; documents in the electronic medical record,
- Can make a determination of standard and substandard products
- Assures proper food handling and presentation
- Visits all ages of patients daily in assigned area for menu selection and to conduct patient
- Enters accurate diet orders, admissions, discharges and transfer of patients into Kardex and communicates change to tray serving area. Uses computer terminal to communicate with
- Conducts test trays for quality and accuracy of trays as served to patients.
- Corrects non-therapeutic diet order patient menus to agree with Kardex notations and current diet orders for all ages of patients. Follows standard procedure for correction of therapeutic diet order menus under supervision of clinical dietitian.
- Prepares menus for serving area in accordance with current diet orders.
- Attends all required Safety Training programs and can describe his/her responsibilities relatedto general safety, department/service safety, specific job-related hazards.
- Follows the Hospital Exposure Control Plans/Blood borne and Airborne Pathogens.
- Demonstrates respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitors and fellow
- Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/unit team
objectives.
Qualifications
Completed dietetic/nutrition program
- Over three months to one year experience in hospital food service
- OR
- An approved equivalent combination of education and experience.
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If you were eligible to this vacancy, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Hennepin County Medical Center.
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This vacancy starts available on: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:10:52 GMT