CLINICAL DIETITIAN
The primary role of a clinical dietician is to design nutrition programs to improve or maintain the health of patients. These programs may be short-term, such as to ensure that proper nutrition is delivered to an accident victim until full healing has occurred or they may be long-term for patients with diabetes, kidney disease or old age conditions that affect proper nutrition. The programs designed may be preventive, for heart disease or obesity, or therapeutic to help a patient with heart disease maintain a baseline health and nutrition state.
Clinical dietician at Narayan Swaroop Hospital works at the center of the interactions between doctor, patient, and the staff of the facility in which care is administered. A delicate balance sometimes exists between what a doctor recommends and a patient’s ability to implement the nutrition program. Factors such as a patient’s income, level of education, psychological and physical state, living conditions, family assistance, and ability to follow the program must be considered. Sometimes the clinical dietician provide a great deal of patient contact, counseling, and education to achieve that balance.
The food we eat has a significant impact on our health, according to a number of scientific studies. Changes in diet can help prevent or control many health problems, including obesity, diabetes and certain risk factors for cancer and heart disease.
Dietitian at Narayan Swaroop Hospital use nutrition and food science to help people improve their health hence they are an integral part of health care and foodservice management of our hospital.
