dietitian
ISCO: 2265. Skills: 103. Essential: 81.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise food industry
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on preparation of diet food
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- biological chemistry
- calculation of food energy
- chemistry
- clinical examinations in dietetics
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- composition of diets
- conduct nutrition research
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counselling methods
- deal with emergency care situations
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- develop policies for nutritional programs
- dietetics
- eating disorders
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- epidemiology
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow up nutrition care plan
- food allergies
- food authentication techniques
- food hygiene rules
- food labels
- food legislation
- food science
- formulate dietetic intervention
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify cause of nutritional imbalance
- identify nutritional properties of food
- identify the dietetic professional quality of care
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- measure nutritional health status of patients
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor the nutrition status of the individual
- nutrition of healthy persons
- nutritional adequacy of food intake
- obesity
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform nutrition analysis
- pharmacology
- prepare promotional materials on nutritition
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide dietetic diagnosis
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- rehabilitation
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- supervise food in healthcare
- supervision of persons
- support individuals on nutrition changes
- train medical staff on nutrition
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- address public health issues
- advise sportspersons on diet
- business management principles
- carry out bibliographic work
- communicate with media
- first aid
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- intensive care medicine
- maintain medical devices
- make recommendation on nutrition to public policy makers
- manage clinical risk
- monitor children's physical development
- pedagogy
- prescribe medication
- promote ethical eating
- psychiatry
- public health
- record healthcare users' billing information
- refer healthcare users
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care