In this assessment I will compare and contrast between a Nurse and a Dietitian.
The role of the Nurse varies with the needs of the patients, the Nurse credentials. And type of employment setting. A registered Nurse (RN) assesses a patient’s health and promote wellness. The choice of personnel for particular patients depends on the needs of the patients, Health teams commonly include the Nurse and some or all personnel that follow. (Kozier2004)A registered Dietitian has a specialist knowledge about the diets required to maintain health and treat disease. Dietitians in hospitals generally are concerned with therapeutic diets, may design special diets to meet the nutritional needs of individual patients, and supervise the preparation of meals …show more content…
Training will be made up of placements and theory, this gives students a wide range of clinical experience(The University Of Dundee). Once you complete your degree you have to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) this is a regulated body that set the Professional Standards that Nurses and Midwives should follow throughout their careers, ensuring that their skills and knowledge is kept up to date. If a Nurse or Midwives does not adhere to these standards they will be investigated and lost their registration. Every three years’ Nurses have to renew their registration, this is known as revalidation, the reason for this is to ensure nurses keep their professional development up to date, ensuring nurses stay fit to practice to improve public …show more content…
A Nurse and Dietitian need to collaborate between each other for instance if a patient came into hospital and was malnourished, a nurse would then refer them to a dietitian who would then work alongside the nurse in planning the best diet which would meet the patient’s Nutritional needs. Within nursing and dietetics there are frameworks in place which is there to ensure the delivery of effective practice, Case management, Team Nursing, Primary Nursing within the frameworks (Hozier 2004) Health Care professionals will face Ethical issues throughout their careers. Within nursing. there are strict Ethical guidelines set out by the Ethic codes within the (NMC) that a nurse should follow
The role of the Nurse varies with the needs of the patients, the Nurse credentials. And type of employment setting. A registered Nurse (RN) assesses a patient’s health and promote wellness. The choice of personnel for particular patients depends on the needs of the patients, Health teams commonly include the Nurse and some or all personnel that follow. (Kozier2004)A registered Dietitian has a specialist knowledge about the diets required to maintain health and treat disease. Dietitians in hospitals generally are concerned with therapeutic diets, may design special diets to meet the nutritional needs of individual patients, and supervise the preparation of meals …show more content…
Training will be made up of placements and theory, this gives students a wide range of clinical experience(The University Of Dundee). Once you complete your degree you have to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) this is a regulated body that set the Professional Standards that Nurses and Midwives should follow throughout their careers, ensuring that their skills and knowledge is kept up to date. If a Nurse or Midwives does not adhere to these standards they will be investigated and lost their registration. Every three years’ Nurses have to renew their registration, this is known as revalidation, the reason for this is to ensure nurses keep their professional development up to date, ensuring nurses stay fit to practice to improve public …show more content…
A Nurse and Dietitian need to collaborate between each other for instance if a patient came into hospital and was malnourished, a nurse would then refer them to a dietitian who would then work alongside the nurse in planning the best diet which would meet the patient’s Nutritional needs. Within nursing and dietetics there are frameworks in place which is there to ensure the delivery of effective practice, Case management, Team Nursing, Primary Nursing within the frameworks (Hozier 2004) Health Care professionals will face Ethical issues throughout their careers. Within nursing. there are strict Ethical guidelines set out by the Ethic codes within the (NMC) that a nurse should follow