Registered Dietitian

Job Description

Job Summary:

• Act as nutritional consultant and resource to members of the health care team.
• Provides comprehensive nutritional care including assessment, Nutrition Diagnosis, implementation of a care plan, counseling, education, and evaluation of outcomes to patients, families, and associates.
• Coordinates various education programs and seminars on nutritional topics.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assess the nutritional needs of patients by obtaining, verifying, and interpreting data needed to identify nutrition related problems, their causes and significance.
• Determine from patient/family, medical record, and health care team the food and nutrition related history, anthropometric measurements, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedures, nutrition-focused physical findings and the client history.
• Determine the nutrition diagnosis to identify and describe a specific nutrition problem (Intake, Clinical or Behavioral-Environmental) that can be resolved or improved through treatment/nutrition intervention by the registered dietitian.
• Implement nutrition interventions to resolve or improve the identified nutrition problem.
• Nutrition therapy is based on individualized, specific patient care needs, including food and or nutrient delivery (meals, snacks, supplements, enteral or parenteral), nutrition education, nutrition counseling, and coordination of care.
• Monitor and evaluate patient care outcomes to determine the amount of progress made and whether goals/expected outcomes are being met.
• (Food/nutrition related history outcomes, anthropometric measurement outcomes, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedure outcomes, and nutrition-focused physical finding outcomes.).
• Monitor patient’s food tolerances to ensure appropriate food consistencies and assess adequate nutritional intake.
• Collaborate and communicate with health care providers.
•  Acts as consultant Informs team of advances in diet therapy, unusual diet related lab results, or other  pertinent facts related to the nutritional care of the patient.
• Investigates unusual occurrences/customer service complaints.
• Educate patients and/or their significant other as appropriate, on nutrition and special diets to be followed during and after hospitalization based on physician’s order to aid in maintaining patient’s health.
• Maintain documentation of nutrition services provided in the patient’s medical record.
• Develop and conduct in-service classes, community education and other health and nutrition offerings as requested or assigned.
• Participate in special projects and committees related to the nutritional care of patients as needed.
• Maintain and enhance professional expertise through appropriate educational and organizational activities.
• Develop and maintains educational resources appropriate to patient and audience needs as required.
  Supervise dietetic interns/students orienting them to the profession and providing clinical teaching, precepting and mentoring throughout their program.
• Acts as a liaison with the department of culinary wellness, both patient foodservice and retail foodservice, addressing patient, employee, visitor, or staff needs.
• Demonstrate professional characteristics and ethics by adhering to department and organizational policy and maintaining up to date knowledge and skills in field of expertise.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Required Skills:

• Requires the ability to read, write and speak English; use and understand medical terminology.
• Follow oral and written instructions; perform arithmetic calculations.
• Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Requires a relatively high level of interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and work with medical, nursing and other health care professionals, patients, and their families.
• Must meet or exceed core customer service responsibilities, standards and behaviors as outlined in the Health Customer Service Policy and summarized below:
• Communication Ownership.
• Understanding  Motivation.
• Sensitivity Excellence.
• Teamwork  Respect.
• Be self-directed
• Be flexible and committed to the team concept
• Demonstrate teamwork, intiative and willingness to learn
• Be open to new learning experiences
• Accepts and respects diversity wtihout judgment
• Demonstrates customer service values.
• Interviews: MS Teams
• Minimum Exp: 1 year of recent full-time experience (within past 5 years) as a RD in acute care, nursing home or inpatient rehab/LTACH setting.

Required Skills:

• Trained in completion of NFPE.
• Experience with enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Will consider 1 year of less recent full-time experience (within past 8 years) as a RD in acute care, inpatient rehab/LTACH setting on a case-by-case basis.
• Must have experience with recent acute care or inpatient rehab/LTACH).