From midwife to dietitian
30 of the 81 essential skills of a dietitian are already essential for a midwife — about 37% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 30
- skills carry over
- 51
- would be new
- 37%
- of the target job covered
- 81
- essential skills of a dietitian
What a dietitian does
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.
What carries over
30 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- dietetics
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- epidemiology
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- pathology
- pharmacology
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
51 skillsEssential for a dietitian and not for a midwife. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise food industry
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on preparation of diet food
- biological chemistry
- calculation of food energy
- chemistry
- clinical examinations in dietetics
- communicate in healthcare
- composition of diets
- conduct nutrition research
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counselling methods
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- develop policies for nutritional programs
- eating disorders
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- empathise with the healthcare user
- follow up nutrition care plan
- food allergies
- food authentication techniques
- food hygiene rules
- food labels
- food legislation
- food science
- formulate dietetic intervention
- human physiology
- identify cause of nutritional imbalance
- identify nutritional properties of food
- identify the dietetic professional quality of care
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- interact with healthcare users
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- 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
and 11 more
Other moves from midwife
2 roles- nurse responsible for general care30 skills in common
- orthoptist30 skills in common
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How far are you from being a dietitian?
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