Location: Carlisle,PA, USA
**Purpose:**
Acts as a department liaison by processing phone requests appropriately. Ensures nutritional accuracy of food served to patients as per medical diet order.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Participates in departmental process improvement activities relating to office procedures and patient care.
+ Records daily patient census by diet category for department budget reports and meal production forecasting.
+ Put tube feeding in the Kardex and make label for the next day,
+ Tally specials and supplements.
+ Collect Mail.
+ Edit menus once returned to meet requirements of each patient's diet restriction, patient's preferences, and allergies.
+ Update patient Kardex file and menus on all patients/residents throughout the day.
+ Keep a running inventory of patient menus and maintains adequate supply for daily operations.
+ Provides brief explanation of prescribed diet and/or purpose of meal patterns as needed those inquiring about diet.
+ Assists patients with making acceptable menu selections with their meal pattern.
+ Put together patient menu that are going to dialysis and notify starter.
+ Community life sheet tally for diets.
+ Pull appropriate menu based on the diet order in the kardex, edit for patient's preferences and allergies; then sticker menu with the patient's name, room number and diet.
+ Put HS snacks for all new diabetics.
+ Lock up department.
+ Answer the phone appropriately (identifying yourself/department).
+ Record late trays (time, patient's name, diet and request).
+ Transcribes prescribed meal pattern on menus for renal/renal carbohydrates, fluid restriction and diabetic diets.
+ Daily HS snack audit diabetic patients and put together nourishment bags.
+ Collect missing menus via phone and/or in person.
+ High School graduate or equivalent.
+ 6 months experience in a hospital Dietary office and/or knowledge of therapeutic diets preferred.
+ Ability to communicate orally and in writing with staff.
+ Computer skills required.
**Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:**
+ Act 34
**UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**