The dietitian's job is to make a diet plan, provide nutrition consultation and guidance, monitor the nutritional status of patients, participate in disease treatment and participate in health education.

First, engaged in the post

Dietitians can engage in kindergartens, schools, communities, beauty salons, outpatient departments, private hospitals, gymnasiums, food production and processing enterprises, dietitian vocational training institutions, nutrition consulting institutions and other related occupations in various enterprises and institutions.

Nutritionists can engage in the following jobs: corporate dietitian consultant, private dietitian consultant, sales and consultation of nutrition and health products, relevant dietary guidance or nutrition catering, civil servants in nutrition and health-related professions, nutrition consultants or guidance experts, catering and drinking in hotel catering industry, food experts or managers with health guidance, and so on.

Second, the employment prospects

Dietitians have a wide range of occupations. Traditional industries include nutrition catering in hotels, restaurants and school canteens, nutrition and health care institutions, food and health care enterprises, cosmetics companies, beauty salons, hospitals, nursing homes and so on.

Emerging industries include: bean industry, dairy industry, student nutrition meal preparation center, vegetarian industry, senior domestic housekeeper and so on. These industries are quietly emerging and need a large number of such professionals. However, there are very few nutrition professionals trained in regular colleges and universities, so the employment prospects are very broad.

Job classification:

1, Clinical Nutritionist:

Mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition work, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. He mainly works in a hospital and is often called a nutritionist. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.

2. Public dietitians:

Also known as a public dietitian, his work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition survey, planning of various social activities related to nutrition, and planning of film and television literature related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.

3. Food nutritionist:

Mainly working in food enterprises, mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work.