respiratory therapy techniciantodietetic technician
A respiratory therapy technician already meets 30% of what the dietetic technician role asks for. The move turns on 20 required skills not yet in the profile.
30%
74.5/ 100
1 Share of the dietetic technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the respiratory therapy technician profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A dietetic technician role treats 9 of its required skills as things a respiratory therapy technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- health care legislation
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
What stands in the way is 20 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A dietetic technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a respiratory therapy technician background worth leading with.
- already held medical informatics health and welfare
- already held hygiene in a health care setting services
- already held medical terminology health and welfare
- already held health care legislation business, administration and law
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies working with computers
- already held manage healthcare users' data information skills
All 11 carried skills, including the 9 the dietetic technician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 27 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held calculation of food energy required
- required, not held dietetics required
- required, not held nutrition of healthy persons required
- required, not held professional documentation in health care required
- required, not held composition of diets required
- required, not held counselling methods required
- optional, not held obesity optional
- optional, not held geriatrics optional
- required, not held prepare infant formulae required
- required, not held use food preparation techniques required
- required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
- required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
- required, not held follow clinical guidelines required
- required, not held identify nutritional properties of food required
- optional, not held deal with emergency care situations optional
- required, not held plan patient menus required
- required, not held educate healthcare users on nutrition required
- required, not held interact with healthcare users required
- required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
- required, not held food hygiene rules required
- required, not held food safety standards required
- required, not held food preservation required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
- required, not held monitor stock level required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a dietetic technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 plan patient menus skill · occupation specific
- 02 prepare infant formulae skill · occupation specific
- 03 calculation of food energy knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 11 skills that carry over
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- already held health care legislation knowledge
- already held human anatomy knowledge
- already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- already held medical informatics knowledge
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held manage healthcare users' data skill
- already held medical terminology knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held pedagogy optional
- optional, not held store raw food materials optional
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
- optional, not held obesity optional
- optional, not held deal with emergency care situations optional
- optional, not held geriatrics optional
- optional, not held pedagogy optional
- optional, not held store raw food materials optional
- optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
20 held skills the dietetic technician role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
- not needed by the target role carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures skill
- not needed by the target role clinical imaging techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical perfusion knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct polysomnography skill
- not needed by the target role contribute to continuity of health care skill
- not needed by the target role develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
- not needed by the target role emergency surgery knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role interpret medical images skill
- not needed by the target role operate breathing equipment skill
- not needed by the target role operate heart-lung machines skill
- not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
- not needed by the target role provide pre-treatment information skill
- not needed by the target role rehabilitation of all organ systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role respiratory medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role respiratory therapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role respond to changing situations in health care skill
- not needed by the target role surgery knowledge
13 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held calculation of food energy required
- required, not held dietetics required
- required, not held food hygiene rules required
- required, not held food preservation required
- required, not held food safety standards required
- required, not held nutrition of healthy persons required
- required, not held professional documentation in health care required
- required, not held composition of diets required
- required, not held counselling methods required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
- optional, not held obesity optional
- optional, not held geriatrics optional
- optional, not held pedagogy optional
Other moves recorded from respiratory therapy technician
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.