Interview
1. What does a normal workday for you consist of?
A work day for me is different each day since I am a private practice. They call me at home on my phone to scheduled an appointment. However theirs different types of dietitians like clinical; who evaluate patients’ nutritional status, develop nutritional interventions and supervise their effectiveness, design plans for patients’ needs and advise patients in order to help them prevent diseases and maintain or recover health. Theirs public dietitian who do the same as a clinical dietitian but they do it for the whole population ex. if they work at CLSC. Theirs also food service dietitian who takes the role of the doctor and they make you menus.
2. What's some reasons patients come to you for?
Patients come for me for all sorts of things. They come to me for weight management if they want to lose weight or put on weight if their too skinny. They also come to me if they have cholesterol or high blood pressure or celiac's disease, etc so they can find a diet to suit them and just to find a good eating plan for them. Also when athletes want to run a marathon they come to me to see what food they should eat to help them and if someones pregnant they come to me to have a healthy pregnancy..
3. How many people on average do you see a day?
Since I am a private practice, the number of clients i see each day is different but when I used to work in a clinic on Saturday I saw an average of 6-7 people a day.
4. What are the benefits of going to see a dietitian?
The benefits you can have to see a dietitian is to improve your diet, if you have diabetes a dietitian can control it and you have a better chance of not getting diseases since you will be eating good and healthy.
5. What made you choose to be a dietitian?
The reason I chose dietetics is because I got a bachelor of science so I wanted a career in science and I love to help people so i didn't want to work in a lab, so I thought dietetics would be the perfect job for me.
6. What are the pro's and con's of being a dietitian?
pro's: I love the profession, i get to talk about nutrition, and i'm self employed therefore i have no boos and i make my own schedule.
con's: I have no cons since I like my job.
7. What are the benefits of being a dietitian?
The benefits for being a dietitian is is the feeling of helping people so they can live long.
8. What is your workplace like?
I don't really have a workplace since I work form home.
9. How many year's of schooling did it take you to become a dietitian?
It took me 2 years in Cegep and 3 and a half years in university.
10. What programs did you need to take to graduate?
The program I needed to take to become a dietitian was my sciences,microbiology, clinical nutrition, food science, marketing in diet, food service management and in Cegep i took the biology's and maths.
A work day for me is different each day since I am a private practice. They call me at home on my phone to scheduled an appointment. However theirs different types of dietitians like clinical; who evaluate patients’ nutritional status, develop nutritional interventions and supervise their effectiveness, design plans for patients’ needs and advise patients in order to help them prevent diseases and maintain or recover health. Theirs public dietitian who do the same as a clinical dietitian but they do it for the whole population ex. if they work at CLSC. Theirs also food service dietitian who takes the role of the doctor and they make you menus.
2. What's some reasons patients come to you for?
Patients come for me for all sorts of things. They come to me for weight management if they want to lose weight or put on weight if their too skinny. They also come to me if they have cholesterol or high blood pressure or celiac's disease, etc so they can find a diet to suit them and just to find a good eating plan for them. Also when athletes want to run a marathon they come to me to see what food they should eat to help them and if someones pregnant they come to me to have a healthy pregnancy..
3. How many people on average do you see a day?
Since I am a private practice, the number of clients i see each day is different but when I used to work in a clinic on Saturday I saw an average of 6-7 people a day.
4. What are the benefits of going to see a dietitian?
The benefits you can have to see a dietitian is to improve your diet, if you have diabetes a dietitian can control it and you have a better chance of not getting diseases since you will be eating good and healthy.
5. What made you choose to be a dietitian?
The reason I chose dietetics is because I got a bachelor of science so I wanted a career in science and I love to help people so i didn't want to work in a lab, so I thought dietetics would be the perfect job for me.
6. What are the pro's and con's of being a dietitian?
pro's: I love the profession, i get to talk about nutrition, and i'm self employed therefore i have no boos and i make my own schedule.
con's: I have no cons since I like my job.
7. What are the benefits of being a dietitian?
The benefits for being a dietitian is is the feeling of helping people so they can live long.
8. What is your workplace like?
I don't really have a workplace since I work form home.
9. How many year's of schooling did it take you to become a dietitian?
It took me 2 years in Cegep and 3 and a half years in university.
10. What programs did you need to take to graduate?
The program I needed to take to become a dietitian was my sciences,microbiology, clinical nutrition, food science, marketing in diet, food service management and in Cegep i took the biology's and maths.