Nutrition Office Clerk

**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**