Dietetic professionals integrate knowledge and
expertise in food, nutrition, management and people and
apply their skills in a variety of settings. As the changing
scene in health care has necessitated enhanced management of
resources, the clinical nutrition manager (CNM) has emerged
as a dietetic professional in hospitals applying sound
management practices to the area of clinical nutrition
services. The purpose of this study was to provide
information about the position of clinical nutrition manager
and about the professional development strategies used by
incumbents.
The research design had two phases. The purpose of the
first phase was to develop a job description for the
position of clinical nutrition manager, including
duties/activities and job specifications for education,
experience and professional credentialing. The purpose of
the second phase was to verify the accuracy of the job
description, determine educational and experiential resources used to develop the required skills and knowledge
for performing the duties/activities, and collect other
descriptive data about the position.
The result was a job description for a Clinical
Nutrition Manager with 46 duties/activities assigned to the
position and job specifications for work experience and
academic preparation. Chi square analysis was used to test
the association of the performance of a duty/activity with
amount of time allotted to the position; number of personnel
supervised; and type of personnel supervised. Results
indicated that type of personnel supervised had the most
significant association. One sample chi square analysis
indicated that entry-level education and entry-level
experience were the less likely resources to be used for
development of skills and knowledge. For more than 50% of
the duties/activities, the number of resources used was
significantly related to the perceived level of importance.
There was no significant finding for an association between
timing of career decision to become a CNM and career
development strategies intentionally selected. Findings also
indicated that perceived competence improves with increasing
number of years in the position and is not affected by
having an advanced degree. / Graduation date: 1992
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/27175 |
| Date | 09 April 1992 |
| Creators | Witte, Sandra Sue |
| Contributors | Messersmith, Ann M. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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