Competent, Proficient, Advanced Practice/Expert—Where Are You in Your Career Development?

We all start our careers as renal dietitians as competent practitioners—some of us more recently than others. The competent dietitian recognizes patients at nutrition risk, gathers pertinent nutrition assessment information, interprets that data, diagnoses/determines the nutrition problem, and formulates a plan of care. Critical-thinking skills continue to develop, and our ability to “sift” through all of the data and find the relevant data continues to improve with experience. As a competent practitioner, focusing on the data versus the patient is not uncommon.
Source: Journal of Renal Nutrition - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Message From the Chairperson Source Type: research