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All Team Staffing Dietary Aide in Nashville, Tennessee
Dietary Aide
Dietary Aide Job Responsibilities:
Ensures patients menu selections are in compliance with prescribed diet order, nutritional adequacy, age, cultural background, and religious practice.
Obtains menu choices from patients and guests via phone order or patient visitation.
Ensures meal orders have been transmitted to correct location for meal preparation.
Processes patient menu selections utilizing computerized diet office system.
Updates, monitors, and follows-up on all pertinent information such as new patient admissions, discharges, transfers, diet order changes, food allergies, food preferences and food requests.
Communicates pertinent information to dietitian.
Writes and modifies menus as needed according to patient diet prescription using established resources/guidelines.
Clarifies unclear or missing diet orders with nursing staff.
Prints and processes patient food service reports, including meal census and food tally report.
Records all assigned data such as patient meal census and floor stock requests on paper logs or electronic spreadsheet.
Offers patients appropriate alternate food and beverage choices.
Resolves patient requests/complaints or relays to appropriate staff (e.g. dietitian, nursing staff).
Assists members, staff and visitors who enter Food and Nutrition Services office.
Assists with room service delivery as needed, including assembling patient trays, loading carts, and delivering meals to patients.
Checks accuracy of meal tray against printed tray ticket menu.
Substitutes appropriate foods on tray line as necessary.
Serves as a dietary resource for nursing and other staff.
Resolves problems with patient trays.
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