Registered Dietician

Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitor patients for food/drug interactions and provide education.
• Record food and drug interactions in the education section.
• Consult with physicians regarding appropriate diet modifications.
• Screen and assess patients accurately and timely based on levels of care.
• Determine patients’ nutritional needs and status and provide follow-up care.
• Interview patients and/or their families to obtain history of food habits and preferences.
• Interpret pertinent laboratory, physical, and social data in the medical record as they apply to nutrition care.
• Provide nutrition education and record the patient’s diet, diet instructions, and the patient’s understanding of the diet in the education section.
• Modify patient menus as needed.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum one (1) year of experience.
• Nutrition care.
• Nutrition education.
• Food/drug interactions.
• Diet modification.
• Patient assessment.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Two (2) years of experience.
• Medical record experience.

Required Education:

• Graduate from an accredited college/university with a degree in Dietetics or Foods and Nutrition.
• Master’s degree.

Required Certifications & Licensure:

• For post-acute locations: New York State Certification, issued by the New York State Education.
• Department (NYSED), as a “Dietitian-Nutritionist.
• For acute locations: Registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered Dietitian.
• Primary Source Verification required.
• AHA BLS.

Note :

• 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, and Write.