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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.
• Provides general information on diet utilizing approved materials and resources.