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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Forest Research Institute

Date of Interview: 10 April 2015

Details of Post
Junior Research Fellow (JRF): 06 posts

Eligibility Criteria
Educational Qualification: 1st class M.Sc. in the relevant discipline

Age Limit: Upto 28 years

Selection Procedure
Candidates will be selected on the basis of Personal interview.

How to Apply
Candidates eligible and interested in the profile can walk-in for the Interview with essential documents on 10 April 2015 at Board Room of FRI main building, P.O. New Forest, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun -248006.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Various Specialized Areas in Dietetics

Various Specialized Areas in Dietetics

      Clinical Dietitians are specialists in food nutrition services in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and private practices. They assess patient nutrition, develop dietary plans, provide patient counselling, and monitor patient's progress.

      Community Dietitians work in public health agencies, health and fitness clubs, and day care centers. They counsel people on food choices and direct programmes in nutrition awareness and disease prevention. 

      Management Dietitians specialize in food service systems or clinical management. They work in hospitals, nursing homes, school food service, cafeterias, and restaurants. They manage personnel, plan and conduct employee training programmes, design food systems, and plan budgets.

      Consultant Dietitians are independent business people who work as nursing home consultants, book authors, and patient counselors in medical centers and fitness programmes. They also develop and evaluate food service systems and serve as independent advisors to industry.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

Role of Dietitian in Health Care 

      The role of dietitian has come a long way since the early 1900s. Their role is still unknown to a lot of people. Some think that dietitians, as their name implies, only give out diets to make individuals lose weight, whereas this is a small part of their role. The dietitian is the link between the patient and medical team or physician in assisting difficult decisions making about nutrition care. Asian Society of Perenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASEAN) states that the dietician role in nutrition care has been recommended an adequate source and amount of balanced nutrients according to pre- established standards of care. A dilemma occurs when the   disease state of the patient confound the adequacy of nutritional support, which has resulted in the patient’s malnourishment. The dietician should be:

  1. Planning food and nutrition programmes
  2. Supervising meal preparations in schools and hospitals
  3. Recommending dietary modifications
  4. Educating patients on diets that may help their condition
  5. Working with other healthcare professionals to provide a multidisciplinary healthcare approach
  6. Informing on the severity of illness and complications of treatments, inclusive of the benefits and burdens of feeding in all conceivable routes.
  7. Active in the patients care as the dietitian reporting on the nutritional status of the patient, as well as, the advisor to the physician and medicinal team, and
  8. Informing the legal decisions that may help determine the route of care for the patient, such as more aggressive or palliative care.  

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