Dietitian for Naval Medical Center Portsmouth

The Pediatric Dietitian at Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth provides comprehensive outpatient nutrition care to infants, toddlers, children, and teens.

Caring for children with a variety of conditions including:

• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Failure to Thrive
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Food Allergies
• GI Complications
• Feeding Difficulties (with Psychology Consult)
• Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency
• Enteral or Parenteral Nutrition Support

• Provide diet counseling and nutrition care services to pediatric outpatients with complex dietary management needs.
• Serve as the pediatric outpatient nutritional care specialist, counseling patients with diseases requiring nutritional management.
• Collect nutritionally relevant data from medical records, including medication, clinical symptoms, laboratory values, dietary history, and anthropometrics.
• Calculate nutrient and energy intake values and assist in evaluating data from patient’s dietary history.
• Conduct in-depth diet history interviews with patients and/or caregivers regarding food habits, preferences, and lifestyle.
• Evaluate anthropometric data, laboratory parameters, drug-nutrient interactions, and diet counseling needs through medical record review and patient interviews.
• Develop individualized dietary plans based on knowledge of multiple disease states, nutrient metabolism, and nutritional status.
• Implement dietary regimes for outpatients upon consult from physicians or nurse practitioners.
• Alter diet prescriptions in consultation with physicians when indicated.
• Perform evaluations of diet history, including twenty-four-hour recall and food frequency data.
• Modify dietary fiber, consistency, calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and minerals as needed.
• Provide alternate dietary plans to accommodate food allergies, intolerances, or preferences such as vegetarianism.

• Provide professional guidance and education in nutritional management to medical residents, interns, allied health professionals, dietetic students, and entry-level dietitians.
• Act as a liaison between the Nutrition Management Department and the patients, facilitating communication and service delivery.
• Implement and evaluate Nutrition Management Department functions, enhancing department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain all required records, reports, and statistics by medical treatment facility standard operating procedures.
• Assist in developing assessment techniques and education protocols, necessary for comprehensive nutritional care of pediatric outpatients.
• Serve on multidisciplinary treatment teams composed of physicians, nurses, social workers, and other allied health team members.
• Review the medical record and consult with team members in planning and implementing nutritional care processes.
• Use unique approaches to achieve compliance with patients not located in a controlled medical center environment.
• Record results of nutritional assessments, diet counseling, and progress on follow-up visits in the medical record.
• Coordinate all Pediatric Dietetic patient education activities for outpatient use, including review and revision of diet instruction materials.
• Participate and provide in educational programs such as medical conferences, seminars, and workshops related to Asthma/Allergy, Cystic Fibrosis, or other Pediatric Pulmonary research activities.

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