Diabetes Dietitian Educator - LSU Mid City
About The Position
The Diabetes Dietitian Educator monitors and evaluates programs and patient status to facilitate goals. The role assesses the nutritional status of referred patients and consults with hospital personnel to coordinate diet therapy. The educator participates as a member of the diabetes team in planning, directing, and supervising comprehensive care plans for referred patients. The role provides education and follow-up appropriate to the patient’s age and population, and assesses nutritional status using anthropometric measurements and laboratory nutrition assessment values. It also supports quality improvement, departmental reporting, continuing education, and collaboration with community organizations and professional groups.
Requirements
- Post-dietetic internship.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- ADA registration once licensed, or licensure or CDE certification by the American Diabetes Association; provisional Louisiana State Dietician Association Nutritionist.
Responsibilities
- Assess referred patients’ nutritional status and participate on the diabetes team in planning, directing, and supervising comprehensive care plans.
- Consult with hospital personnel to coordinate prescribed diet therapy and support care plan compliance.
- Assess nutritional status across infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations using height, weight, and laboratory nutrition assessment values.
- Consider the patient’s age when documenting care plans and follow-up services and when educating patients and care providers.
- Apply knowledge of growth and development patterns and the aging process, including age-related sensory, physiological, and psychological changes.
- Develop programs, processes, and documentation systems to maintain accreditation as a provider and sponsor of nursing continuing education activities.
- Complete mandatory regulatory agency training and participate in assigned continuous improvement activities.
- Analyze departmental data, prepare reports, and monitor departmental records.
- Maintain professional knowledge through relevant seminars, workshops, conferences, and affiliations with state and national professional organizations.
- Build relationships between the hospital and community agencies, civic and special-interest groups, and professional affiliations while representing the hospital.
- Use civic groups and public education activities to improve community health and foster the hospital’s image as a health care leader.
- Perform other duties as assigned or requested.
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Job Type
Full-time
