Occupation Atlasdietitian
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8a53f8d3-d995-4c7b-a70d-d79f76bdcb3f
dietitian
Dietitians assess specific nutritional requirements of populations or individuals throughout their lives and translate this into advice which will maintain, reduce risk to, or restore people’s health. Using evidence-based approaches, dietitians work to empower individuals, families and groups to provide or select food which is nutritionally adequate, safe, tasty and sustainable. Beyond healthcare, dietitians improve the nutritional environment for all through governments, industry, academia and research.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SIESocial · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.50
- I Investigative4.80
- E Enterprising3.42
- C Conventional3.35
- R Realistic3.03
- A Artistic2.40
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Dietitians and Nutritionists (29-1031.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (81)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise food industry
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on preparation of diet food
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- biological chemistry
- calculation of food energy
- chemistry
- clinical examinations in dietetics
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- composition of diets
- conduct nutrition research
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counselling methods
- deal with emergency care situations
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- develop policies for nutritional programs
- dietetics
- eating disorders
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- epidemiology
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow up nutrition care plan
- food allergies
- food authentication techniques
- food hygiene rules
- food labels
- food legislation
- food science
- formulate dietetic intervention
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify cause of nutritional imbalance
- identify nutritional properties of food
- identify the dietetic professional quality of care
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- measure nutritional health status of patients
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor the nutrition status of the individual
- nutrition of healthy persons
- nutritional adequacy of food intake
- obesity
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform nutrition analysis
- pharmacology
- prepare promotional materials on nutritition
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide dietetic diagnosis
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- rehabilitation
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- supervise food in healthcare
- supervision of persons
- support individuals on nutrition changes
- train medical staff on nutrition
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (22)
- address public health issues
- advise sportspersons on diet
- business management principles
- carry out bibliographic work
- communicate with media
- first aid
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- intensive care medicine
- maintain medical devices
- make recommendation on nutrition to public policy makers
- manage clinical risk
- monitor children's physical development
- pedagogy
- prescribe medication
- promote ethical eating
- psychiatry
- public health
- record healthcare users' billing information
- refer healthcare users
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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