What are the employment prospects of dietitians?
Nutritionists in China are facing a talent "famine". Xie, deputy secretary-general of the Food Nutrition Committee of China Cuisine Association, said: "At present, there are only about 4,000 nutritionists in China, mainly providing clinical nutrition guidance to patients in hospitals. It should be said that it is a medical staff. " In fact, as a medical technology department, hospital nutrition department is often ignored or even cancelled because it is not a profit-making department. According to the investigation of 403 hospitals in China by national authorities, only 47% hospitals have nutrition departments or nutrition restaurants, and there are still different degrees of staff turnover. Wang Guoxing, director of the Food Camp of Fu Jen Catholic University, said: "The main task of nutritionists is to prevent diseases. If you go to the hospital to talk about nutrition, it should be said that it is a bit late. "
According to statistics, there is a shortage of 4 million nutritionists in China. A survey by a human resources company shows that nutritionists have quietly appeared in some high-end communities, and most of them are self-employed. Their services mainly include providing nutrition consultation, making and selling nutritious meals, producing and selling safe and nutritious foods, and carrying out food weight loss training. The average income of a dietitian serving an object is 2000 to 3000 yuan. For example, he teaches in a health care product company, and his monthly salary can reach tens of thousands.
Employment direction
1 Health care products enterprises: In recent years, consumers' understanding of health care products has become more and more objective and rational. From treating diseases to preventing diseases, it is a rational return to understanding the essential functions of health care products. With the development of China's economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, there is a huge room for development in health care industry, China. Direct selling companies such as Amway, Perfect, Baojian, Tiens, New Era, Herbalife, Tomson Bianjian, etc. live well and survive well.
2. Catering field: In today's increasingly rich food types, people not only want to eat well, but also want to eat nutritious food. Kindergartens, large staff canteens and nursing homes all need nutrition chefs who are proficient in cooking techniques and know nutrition knowledge to serve.
Hospital Nutrition Department and Maternal and Child Health Hospital: In the clinical nutrition department of the hospital, it is responsible for diagnosing patients' nutritional problems, listing health care plans, supervising the effectiveness of dietary changes, and evaluating, managing and guiding the diets of pregnant women and babies in maternal and child health hospitals.
Fitness Center: In the fitness center, nutritionists scientifically guide and adjust the exercise prescriptions of fitness enthusiasts according to their personal physical conditions, formulate reasonable diet and nutrition plans, and guide them to supplement appropriate nutrition, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Nutrition Studio: provides expert advice on nutrition, dietotherapy and catering services for individuals, institutions and organizations, who run their own private consulting business.
Food enterprises: In the field of food, nutritionists assist in research and planning, so that food enterprises can produce better food and nutritional products and put them on the market, and can train front-line sales personnel in food nutrition.
7 Health Pavilion: Health Pavilion is a leisure health pavilion that provides meridian health care, aromatherapy SPA, beauty and body building, traditional Chinese medicine health care, decompression and relaxation. With the participation of nutritionists, customers can be better guided.
Physical examination center: Physical examination center has developed rapidly in recent years, becoming more and more professional and providing more and more comprehensive services, including many high-end physical examination institutions such as Aikang, First Health and Ciming. Nutritionists can provide nutrition consultation and regular exclusive nutrition lecture services according to members' needs to help members improve their lifestyle and eating habits and reduce the risk of illness.
9 Health Management Company: Health management has just started in China and is developing very rapidly. By the end of 20112, there were about 3,000 health management companies in China. Health management is a field that integrates doctors, nutritionists, psychological counselors and sports rehabilitation therapists, among which nutritionists play an important role.
10 beauty salon: an adequate and balanced nutritious diet is the key to keeping skin beautiful. Nutritionists are responsible for consulting and analyzing customers' nutrition, giving targeted nutrition lectures and nutrition salons to customers; Responsible for the training of beauticians' nutrition knowledge.
1 1 Yuezi Center: According to the nutritional needs of lying-in women at different stages, nutritionists will provide reasonable catering suggestions for special lying-in women at different stages, answer customers' questions about catering, and make them recover soon.
12 nutritionist training institutions: With the upsurge of nutritionist research, nutritionist-related training institutions have sprung up in recent years, and nutritionists working in nutritionist training institutions are responsible for the enrollment and management services of nutritionists.
13 nutrition associations and other associations: In recent years, registered by the Civil Affairs Bureau, provincial and prefecture-level nutrition associations and other organizations under the charge of the Association for Science and Technology have been established one after another. As most of them have just started, nutritionists can also participate in the construction of local associations and contribute to the local nutrition and health cause.
14 private nutritionist: A nutritionist is the most suitable part-time job, and can provide personalized nutrition consultation and catering services for senior white-collar workers, professional managers, high-income families and patients with chronic diseases.
15 Nutrition Lecturer: Nutrition lecturers are widely needed, and they can give training lectures on nutrition and health knowledge in health care products companies, community organizations, schools and enterprises. Nutrition lecturers with health professional knowledge and good speech skills will gradually become the mainstream figures in health communication, work hard for the development of national health promotion, and sincerely cheer for the health of China people!
The basic work of a dietitian.
(1) Evaluate, manage and guide the nutritional status of human body;
(2) Assessment, management and guidance of dietary nutrition;
(3) Nutritional evaluation of food and formula;
(4) Consultation and education of nutrition knowledge.
Career profile:
National nutrition and health status is an important indicator reflecting the economic and social development, health care level and population quality of a country or region. Good nutrition and health are the foundation and goal of social and economic development.
With the sustained and rapid development of China's national economy, the dietary nutrition status of urban and rural residents in China has improved significantly in the past decade, but at the same time, China is also facing the dual challenges of nutritional deficiency and unbalanced nutritional structure. Diseases closely related to dietary nutrition, such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease, are increasingly threatening people's health. Therefore, it is a very urgent task to vigorously carry out nutrition work and guide Chinese residents to participate in and improve nutritional diet collocation in combination with the specific situation of food resources in China.
The work of a dietitian is very important. They promote people's health by scientifically and reasonably distributing people's diet, reduce the occurrence of various chronic diseases, and improve the nutritional awareness of the whole people by popularizing nutritional knowledge to the whole society, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing the physical fitness of the whole people.
In the United States, the treatment of hospitalized patients must be attended by nutritionists. In Japan, there is one nutritionist for every 300 people, and the number of nutritionists is 2.4 times that of clinicians. According to the ratio of Japanese nutritionists to the national population, that is, every 300 people are equipped with/kloc-0 nutritionists, there is a shortage of 4 million nutritionists in China. At present, there are less than 4000 nutritionists in China, and there is no special nutrition major in colleges and universities. The training of professionals related to this profession can't meet the needs of society at all. Compared with developed countries, China is very short of nutrition professionals.
Therefore, the newly developed public nutritionists are mature in response to social needs. The official establishment of this profession by the state will play a positive role in standardizing the professional behavior of this profession, improving the professional ability of practitioners and building a team of nutrition professionals in China.
Carrying out the corresponding public nutrition improvement work is a systematic project to improve the national health quality and enhance the comprehensive national strength. The nutrition industry closely related to nutrition improvement is also a sunrise industry full of vitality and development potential. On the premise of developing nutrition industry, the main contents of nutrition improvement work are: nutrition improvement work for three key groups, such as children, women, infants and the elderly; Nutrition poverty alleviation and nutrition poverty alleviation work for people and minimum living security personnel in poverty-stricken areas; Nutrition improvement of people with obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other "rich diseases" in cities and economically developed areas; Carry out nutrition education among students; Engaged in research, consultation and publicity on the relationship between public nutrition, population quality and social and economic development; Communication and coordination among nutrition-related departments, units and enterprises; Under the guidance of nutrition science, we will open up new areas for the development of food industry and vigorously promote the development of food and other nutrition industries.
At present, China's industrial structure, consumption structure, residents' diet structure and disease mode are all in transition. Under the strong leadership of the Party and the government, adopting correct principles and policies, cooperating with all departments, fully mobilizing and relying on the positive forces of all sectors of society, and through unremitting efforts, we will certainly achieve fruitful results in obviously improving the nutritional and health status of the whole nation.
There is a shortage of nutrition professionals in China, and the employment prospects of public dietitians are very broad. Public dietitians can provide nutritional advice and guidance for healthy and sub-healthy people. Public nutritionists can not only play an important role in the community, but also provide education, consultation and guidance services for employees, white-collar workers, senior managers, athletes and families.
What are the professional advantages of public dietitians?
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the gap of this profession in China will reach 4 million. It is understood that in Taiwan Province Province, the monthly salary of hospital nutritionists can reach NT$ 654.38 million+,or even higher. Dietitians have appeared in some communities in Beijing. According to the data of human resources agencies, the average income of these nutritionists per client is 2,000 to 3,000 yuan. If you teach in a health care product company, your monthly salary can exceed 10 thousand.
Career advantage
(1) Public dietitians are the standard.
The forthcoming First National Nutrition Regulations of China stipulates that all schools, kindergartens and communities will be equipped with nutritionists, including clinical nutritionists and public nutritionists. The Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced the fourth batch of new occupations, including dietitian 12 new occupations.
(b) Participation in policy formulation
Public nutritionist training experts are mostly experts who participate in the formulation of relevant policies. The experts who will soon issue the First National Nutrition Regulation of China and formulate the Professional Qualification of Public Dietitians are mostly the directors of the Nutrition Department of 3A hospitals, researchers from the Institute of Nutrition of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, and academic professors from Peking University Medical Center, Capital Medical University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
(3) Specialized courses
The specialties offered by public nutritionists are: traditional Chinese medicine nutrition-such as Cordyceps sinensis, Houttuynia cordata and other foods with the same origin of medicine and food, and the theory of four natures and five flavors of food entering meridians. Modern nutrition-seven nutrients, energy, nutritional value of food, physiological characteristics and nutritional needs of various populations, clinical nutrition, food poisoning and its prevention, and other life sciences-phytochemistry. Such as flavonoids and spirulina. Training methods include: basic knowledge teaching, skill teaching, expert teaching practice, industry-university cooperation to develop public dietitian positions.
(4) Issuer
Human resources and social security departments implement a unified national examination, and pass the examination and issue a public dietitian certificate.
(five) in line with international standards
1997, the 6th international nutrition conference, discussed and passed public nutrition, which is a new discipline and a part of nutrition. Public nutritionist is a global public discipline, and everyone has the same concept of public nutrition, which is recognized all over the world. For example, nutrition and health care are state-owned terms, but many times there is no concept of health care. Therefore, public dietitians have the foundation of international mutual recognition, and there are more opportunities for international employment and entrepreneurship.