Dietitians & Nutritionists
Also called:
Clinical Dietitian, Dietitian, Clinical Dietician, Registered Dietitian
What they do:
Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.
On the job, you would:
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
Arts and Humanities
Math and Science
Business
- customer service
- management
Health
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- order or arrange things
Math
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
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People interested in this work like activities that include
ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Cooperation
- Concern for Others
- Analytical Thinking
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You might use software like this on the job:
Analytical or scientific software
- Axxya Systems Nutritionist Pro software
- Compu-Cal Nutrition Assistant
Medical software
- BioEx Systems Nutrition Maker Plus
- Lifestyles Technologies DietMaster Pro
Data base user interface and query software
- CyberSoft NutriBase software
- Database software
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master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$54,470
per year, on average
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