Registered Dietician
Job Description
Required Skills & Experience:
- Minimum one (1) year of experience required.
- Screens and assesses patients accurately and in a timely manner based on levels of care.
- Determines patients’ nutritional needs and status and provides follow-up care.
- Interviews patients and/or their families to obtain food habits and preferences.
- Interprets pertinent laboratory, physical, and social data in medical records as they apply to nutrition care.
- Provides nutrition education and records patients’ diets, diet instructions, and understanding of the diet.
- Monitors patients for food/drug interactions and provides education on them.
- Records food and drug interactions in the education section.
- Consults with physicians regarding appropriate diet modifications.
- Modifies patient menus as needed.
- Preferred: Two (2) years of experience.
Additional skills:
- Patient assessment, nutrition care, nutrition education, diet modification, menu modification, and pediatric nutrition.
Required Education:
- Graduate from an accredited college/university with a degree in Dietetics or Foods and Nutrition.
- Preferred: Master’s degree.
Required Certifications & Licensure:
- For acute locations: Registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered.
- Dietitian; Primary Source Verification required.
- For post-acute locations: New York State Certification, issued by the New York State Education.
- Department (NYSED), as a “Dietitian-Nutritionist.
- Preferred: AHA BLS.
- Special Note for Dietitians assigned to Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facilities .
- Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities, as outlined in Section 483.60 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, all newly hired Dietitians assigned to a Post-Acute Care (Long-Term Care) facility are required to have New York State Certification, issued by NYSED, as a “Dietitian-Nutritionist” at the time of hire.
Languages:
- English — Speak, Read, Write.