MOS 68M
Nutrition Care Specialist
Duty Descriptions

Nutrition Care Specialist
Provides basic nutrition support in a hospital, clinic, or field environment; provides nutritional treatment and counseling to patients, individually and in nutrition clinics; develops age-specific nutritional plans; organizes unscheduled food service for temporary patients; supervises set up and use of expedient field kitchen; inspects over $20M worth of subsistence annually; performs recipient inspections for two prime vendor warehouses.


Nutrition Care Specialist
Provides medical nutrition therapy to over 1K active duty and DoD beneficiaries; assists dietitians with food service supervision, planning, and production; performs nutrition assessment screenings of patients for nutritional requirements and restrictions; provides recommendations on food item selection; procures raw food; maintains standards of food safety; conducts sanitary inspections for outlying FOBs/COPs; ensures field sanitation standards are met.


68M30 Nutrition Care NCO CSH
Serves as platoon sergeant in an 84-bed Combat Support Hospital postured for rapid deployment in support of XVIII Airborne Corps operations; serves as the senior Nutrition Care NCO in the Brigade; provides tactical nutrition support using Containerized Kitchen (CK) and field sanitation equipment; supervises basic clinical dietetics functions in the dietary management and treatment of patients; responsible for the health, welfare, morale, discipline and performance of 5 NCOs and 16 Soldiers.


Nutrition Care Specialist
Assists dietitians with counseling patients individually and in group settings; arranges special diets for patients according to medical condition and nutritional requirements; creates menus and prepares small quantity food portions; ensures compliance with intravenous nutrition guidelines; provides logistical support for consolidated dining facility; supervises the preparation of meals; conducts ISP inspections for 13 facilities.



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