Miscellaneous Health Practitioner Support Technologists and Technicians

If you work in the clinical setting, you or other dietitians will screen the floors to determine how many patients you will see. Then you will provide medical nutrition therapy to your patients which can involve medical surgical patients, ICU patients, oncology patients, pediatric patients, etc. ...

Typical duties for the Nutrition Services Specialist include: Meal assembly and delivery, meal cart pickup from patient floors, dishwashing, cashiering, sanitation and stocking. Jobs vary per facility, some are more lenient on how things are done and others more strict. Typical shifts last betwee...

As a Nutrition Services employee, work and life should be easily balanced. Work only happens at work, all tasks are completed on shift. Schedules are nicely variable in most cases, shifts can range anywhere between 4 to 12 hours average. Some facilities do allow shifts up to 16 hours though, typi...

Be yourself in the interview. Have your resume ready and nice, but be mentally ready to answer questions like, "What are your Strengths/Weaknesses?" Those will most likely be asked. Also, when they ask, "Tell me about yourself," they are not trying to figure out what sports team you like. They ar...

Be sure to know why you want to be a volunteer. Are you looking for experience? Do you want an opportunity to give back to the community? Also know why you are choosing Beaumont Hospital. Beaumont has amazing values and is family centered. Be sure to know how you can help Beaumont continue to liv...

A day as a Nutrition Technician at Memorialcare is coming in and running your reports for your patients, who are ordered for tube feedings and oral supplements, checking/clarifying and charging your orders, pulling product and printing labels for your orders. Once this is done you may then delive...

This will depend on what your exact role is and what business your support. This should be outlined in the job description, but can vary from grains, to dairy, to beverages, etc. You will be involved in product development-related projects, acting as the nutrition subject matter expert. You will ...

Review basic nutrition science principles. Be enthusiastic and friendly to everyone you talk to. Think about your strengths, and weaknesses, and how that might put you at an advantage or disadvantage within a fast-paced, team-work oriented company.

My major gave me the necessary tools for me to work as a Nutrition Service Aide. I learned the different types of menu (room, cyclic, select), the different consistencies of dysphagia diets according to patient's condition, the different temperatures for cooking certain foods, the order for organ...

The best way to prepare for the interview is to not only be able to speak about the hospitals core values but explain how you embody them. I would advise anyone interested to do research about the position and what it entails. Get as much information about the position before the interview. Visit...

My days are very fast paced. We are a room service operation which basically means that we are constantly calling or receiving orders from patients. I am the evening supervisor so I come in and assist the morning staff and supervisor get through the lunch rush. If there is an issue/complaint we i...

I think it prepared me well. There is constant interaction and communication with the patients and staff. This is a service position and it is crucial to be able to effectively communicate in a short amount of time. I use so much of my lessons from Hospitality. Critical Thinking, Intercultural Co...

It's actually a fun job. It's high energy and I get to work with really fun people. We are a tight knit group of workers.I start my shift off by looking over the food orders that need filled and cooked for that day. Then I prepare and cook the food. I look for ways to help my coworkers complete t...

I would usually start the day off with a list of patient rooms to visit. At each room I would talk to the patient and/or their family about the room service and make sure they are not having any problems. If they were, I would inform nutrition services. You kind of help assess their new food serv...

As Nutrition Program Intern, I was in charge of the daily set up/ breakdown of the food pantry. I assisted the Manager with the flow of the food pantry, the system that tracked clients, and leading people through the client-choice model. Some days I would help with food deliveries, which meant ma...

The job tasks vary from answering calls in the diet office to preparing food on the tray line to bringing food to the patients. I usually worked in the diet office answering patients and healthcare professionals on the phone and entering their food into the computer system as well as filing throu...

You need to prepare for the basic questions as well as the critical ones such as, name a time you had a bad experience with a customer and how did you handle it type of questions. Also, although it's a job for the kitchen remember to dress business professionally.

Everyday can be different depending on your status. A part time employee typically works multiple jobs within the kitchen. For example, patient line (assembling meal trays), runners (delivering patient meal trays), call center (taking patient meal orders based on diet), and cafeteria (cashiering,...

To start, like with any interview, begin by educating yourself on the values of the organization; what our message is, what goals we have in place as an organization, and how we work to achieve these goals. The Nutrition-Dietetics Club here on campus has information online that are valuable resou...

As a NDC member at Oregon State University, we are given opportunities that other Nutrition majors don't have access to. You are notified on a regular basis of volunteer opportunities or internships that pertain to the Nutrition-Dietetics field, as well as invitations to hear people in the field ...

The schedule is pretty flexible. There were a variety of hours from which I could choose to work such as morning, midday, or afternoon. Typically you have a list of study participants to look through and call throughout your shift, and sometimes there are scheduled interviews. The workload varied...