Clinical Dietitian – Roles & Responsibilities1. Clinical Nutrition Assessment
- Conduct comprehensive nutritional assessment of inpatients and outpatients.
- Review medical history, diagnosis, medications and relevant laboratory reports.
- Assess height, weight, BMI and nutritional risk.
- Identify malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies and nutrition-related complications.
- Calculate individual calorie, protein, fluid and micronutrient requirements.
- Assess food allergies, intolerances and dietary restrictions.
- Prioritize patients requiring urgent nutritional intervention.

2. Therapeutic Diet Planning
- Prepare individualized diet plans according to the patient's medical condition and physician's advice.
- Plan diets for diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease, renal disease, liver disease, obesity and gastrointestinal disorders.
- Prepare post-operative and recovery diets.
- Plan explicit-liquid, full-liquid, soft, semi-solid and regular diets as clinically indicated.
- Modify diets based on patient progress and clinical requirements.




- Ensure prescribed diets are nutritionally adequate and practical.

3. Inpatient Patient Care
- Conduct regular ward rounds for assigned patients.
- Review new admissions requiring nutritional intervention.
- Monitor food intake and dietary tolerance.
- Follow up patients with poor appetite, weight loss or inadequate nutritional intake.
- Monitor nutritional progress and update diet plans.
- Coordinate with doctors and nursing staff regarding dietary requirements.
- Document nutritional assessments and interventions accurately.

4. ICU & Critical Care Nutrition
- Assess nutritional requirements of critically ill patients.
- Assist in planning enteral nutrition and nutritional supplementation.
- Monitor feeding tolerance and nutritional intake.
- Coordinate with the ICU medical and nursing team.
- Identify feeding-related complications and report them promptly.
- Participate in multidisciplinary clinical discussions when required.

📌 Dietician (Chengalpattu)
🏢 Tambaram Medical Center
📍 Chengalpattu