Clinical Dietitian I - Clinical Nutrition - Full Time
About The Position
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals—and now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work – excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have great resources to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others
Requirements
- At least one (1) year of acute care setting or environment consistent with job responsibilities.
- Bachelor's Degree in Dietetics, Nutrition or related field required.
- Certification as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration - Preferred. Must Obtain within three (3) months of hire.
Responsibilities
- Conduct and implement routine nutritional assessments.
- Collaborate with patient/client to facilitate active participation and assess individual needs to establish mutual nutrition-related goals.
- Follow the Nutrition Care Process and apply clinical skills to promote disease management in a multitude of care settings.
- Utilize Nutrition Focused Physical Exam (NFPE) skills to assess malnutrition prevalence and severity.
- Collaborate and communicate nutrition care with the multidisciplinary clinical team and the food service department, to ensure the highest quality of nutrition care.
- Actively participate in interdisciplinary care meetings such as rounds, patient care conferences, and discharge planning.
- Appropriately document all care in the medical record.
- Evaluate, address, and document the patient’s nutritional related education needs, barriers to learning, and cultural and religious preferences.
- Evaluate and tailor education to meet individual learning needs and assess level of understanding.
- Record patient productivity on a daily basis.
- May act as preceptor for student RD/RDN/DTR training programs.
- May provide on the job training to new RD/RDN/DTRs.
- Continually stay abreast of current evidence-based nutrition recommendations through a variety of continuing education activities.
- Engage in ongoing self-development to improve knowledge and enhance professional competence.
- May participate in or generates research to enhance practice.
- Review research and effectively apply findings to practice.
- Base practice on sound scientific principles and utilize evidenced-based recommendations.
- May support the collection of data and documents outcomes within the practice setting.
- Conduct routine service recovery and escalate issues to appropriate departmental leadership.
- Make appropriate referrals to community resources as needed and may engage in internal and external health and wellness activities.
- Support departmental quality improvement projects and take initiative to identify quality and improvement issues.
- Adhere to the Code of Ethics for the profession of dietetics and hospital code of conduct and general expectations' policy.
- Follow hospital, state, and federal guidelines and policies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
