CLINICAL DIETITIAN, Per Diem

UHS•Reno, NV

15h•Onsite

About The Position

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi-facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more. Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com What we at Sierra Medical Center value: • Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family. • Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch. • Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives. • Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care. • Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards. • Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone. • Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve. • Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com Job summary: Plans and delivers nutritional care to patients according to the physicians’ diagnoses. Performs as a member of the multidisciplinary care team. Supervises nutritional services diet clerks and other support personnel. Exercises independent judgment under the general supervision of the Nutritional Services Director.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in course work approved by the Commission of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND) and completion of dietetic internship and be eligible to take the national examination for registered dietitian
NV Dietitian licensure or within 1 year with Provisional RD License in place
Proof of current registration approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) within 1 year.

Responsibilities

Assesses patients’ nutritional status according to established standards
Obtains necessary information from the medical record to determine patient’s nutritional status.
Develops nutritional care plans based on the cultural orientation of the patient
Evaluates the results of nutritional intervention on the patient’s nutritional status to determine the need to revise the nutritional care plan.