title: Development of job standards for clinical nutrition therapy for dyslipidemia patients.
abstract: Dyslipidemia has significantly contributed to the increase of death and morbidity rates related to cardiovascular diseases. Clinical nutrition service provided by dietitians has been reported to have a positive effect on relief of medical symptoms or reducing the further medical costs. However, there is a lack of researches to identify key competencies and job standard for clinical dietitians to care patients with dyslipidemia. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the job components of clinical dietitian and develop the standard for professional practice to provide effective nutrition management for dyslipidemia patients. The current status of clinical nutrition therapy for dyslipidemia patients in hospitals with 300 or more beds was studied. After duty tasks and task elements of nutrition care process for dyslipidemia clinical dietitians were developed by developing a curriculum (DACUM) analysis method. The developed job standards were pretested in order to evaluate job performance, difficulty, and job standards. As a result, the job standard included four jobs, 18 tasks, and 53 task elements, and specific job description includes 73 basic services and 26 recommended services. When clinical dietitians managing dyslipidemia patients performed their practice according to this job standard for 30 patients the job performance rate was 68.3%. Therefore, the job standards of clinical dietitians for clinical nutrition service for dyslipidemia patients proposed in this study can be effectively used by hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutrition, Wonkwang University, Iksan 570-749, Korea.
authors.forename: Min-Jae
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutrition, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea.
authors.forename: Jung-Sook
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.affiliation: Department of Dietetics, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul 110-746, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun-Mi
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutrition Care, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors.forename: Mi-Sun
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition Team, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Seoul 130-872, Korea.
authors.forename: Mi-Hye
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutrition Care, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 110-744, Korea.
authors.forename: Dal-Lae
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Nutrition, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea.
authors.forename: Gyung-Ah
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wie
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul 135-720, Korea.
authors.forename: Song-Mi
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Korean Cuisine, Jeonju University, Jeonju 560-759, Korea.
authors.forename: Jin-A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutrition, Wonkwang University, Iksan 570-749, Korea.
authors.forename: Cheong-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Sohn
keywords: Clinical dietitian; Clinical nutrition service; DACUM; Dyslipidemia; Job standards