Registered Dietician

Job Description

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum one (1) year of experience required.
• Long-term care experience.
• Patient screening and assessment.
• Nutrition care and nutrition education.
• Food/drug interactions.
• Medical record interpretation.
• 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.
• Screens and assesses patients based on levels of care, determines 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.
• Modifies patient menus as needed.
• Preferred: Two (2) years of experience.

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 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.
• Preferred: AHA BLS.

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.