Nutrition Assistant

Department:

11903 Advocate Christ Medical Center - Food and Nutrition

Status:

Part time

Benefits Eligible:

No

Hours Per Week:

0

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Start as early as 10am and work as late as 7:30pm, working every other weekend and alternating holidays.

Major Responsibilities:

• Maintains electronic card file for each patient in CBORD ensuring that patients more recent diet orders are active.
  •     1)Receive communication via printer from Care Connection from hospital staff regarding the patient’s diet order, menu and/or meal service times, take the appropriate action, indicates action in patient’s card file in CBORD, and/or routes the information to the appropriate location and/or person.
  •     2)Receive telephone messages from department and hospital staff regarding the patient’s diet order, menu and/or meal service times, take the appropriate action, indicates action in patient’s card file in CBORD, and/or routes the information to the appropriate location and/or person.
  •     3)Ensure the patients receive the most recent diet order, with guidance from Registered Dietitians and Diet Technicians, by calculating and/or modifying patient menus, following standards or individualized meal patterns and regulating fluid in accordance with fluid values established by Nutrition Services. If the patient is not available, CBORD will generate a “House Diet”.
  •     4)Appraise the Registered Dietitian of questions relating to the diet, nutrition and diet therapy from the patient, family and/or members of the health care team.
  •     5)Print tickets for each unit according to schedule.
  •     6)Process tickets for early and courtesy trays.
  •     7)Print labels for baby bottles, nourishment, and enteral feedings.
  •     8)Communicate patient needs with patient, patients families, nursing, and food service staff.
  •     9)Obtain phone orders from patients if host/hostess was unable to obtain menu selections.
  •     10)Reviews the allergy report 3 times per day in order and updates the card file.
• Prepares the food production tallies.
  •     1)Enter patient food selections into CBORD in order to generate food production tallies for both hot and cold food production areas in accordance with departmental guidelines.
  •     2)Prepare separate tally for Psych salads, desserts and other cold specials so that they can be forwarded to cold production for placement on disposable dishes.
• Delivers excellent customer service experiences in a consistent manner.
  •     1)Contributes to the hospital's philosophy, mission statement, and values in all interactions.
  •     2)Follows established uniform policy.
  •     3)Maintains a professional image.
  •     4)Ability to notify appropriate supervisor or department head of any issues and/or actions not complaint with these standards.
  •     5)Responds quickly to all requests and interactions.
  •     6)Ability to identify ways to meet the nutritional needs of a culturally diverse patient population through use of culturally diverse educational material and offering variety of menu choices.
  •     7)Uses WEST in all interactions. Welcome and say hello. Engage with eye contact and a friendly question. Service with a smile and helpful suggestion. Thank you and show we care.
• Maintains sanitation and safety standards.
  •     1)Ability to participate in department’s competency assessment program by identifying areas of practice to be assessed, developing competencies, assessing skills/knowledge base and working with Manager to develop plans to correct identified deficiencies.
  •     2)Ability to maintain a neat, clean and well-organized work area by utilizing downtime to complete routine cleaning tasks.
  •     3)Ability to maintain professional appearance by adhering to area dress code, wearing hairnet, name tag and ID badge at all times, while on duty.
  •     4)Ability to adhere to guidelines regarding menu processing for isolation trays by flaggin