Dietitian - Registered

American Addiction Centers•Libertyville, IL

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time role for a Registered Dietitian at Advocate Condell Medical Center. The position involves providing comprehensive Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to hospital inpatients, including screening, assessment, intervention, and developing individualized nutrition plans. The role requires expertise in specialized nutrition support (parenteral and enteral), order writing for therapeutic diets and supplements, and collaboration with physicians, pharmacy, and food services. The dietitian will also lead efforts to identify and treat malnutrition, provide patient education, participate in quality improvement initiatives, and potentially support outpatient programs. Additionally, the role involves precepting dietetic students and medical residents, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams for patient care transitions. The position requires maintaining regulatory readiness and contributing to system-wide clinical initiatives.

Requirements

Dietitian certification issued by the Commission of Dietetic Registration (CDR)
Dietitian (RD) registration with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Licensure by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IL only)
Certification by the Department of Safety and Professional Services (WI only)
Minimum of Bachelor's Degree (if CDR registration eligibility is obtained prior to January 1, 2024) or Minimum of Graduate Degree (master’s, practice doctorate, or doctoral) (if initial CDR registration is obtained on or after January 1, 2024)
Successful completion of Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) accredited supervised practice program.
Didactic experience in clinical nutrition from an ACEND approved program.
Advanced knowledge in clinical nutrition and Nutrition Focused Physical Exams
Ability to respond to the needs of a diverse patient population.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent organization, decision-making, time management, and problem-solving skills
Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders and twist frequently during the work shift.
Will occasionally be required to lift 25 pounds.
Must have functional vision, hearing, speech, and touch.
May need to travel between work sites; therefore, may have exposure to weather-related hazards.
May need to work remotely and assist other sites as needed.
Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

Responsibilities

Provides ongoing Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) care for hospital inpatients through screening, prioritizing, assessing, and recommending interventions.
Develops and implements individualized nutrition plans of care based on expert assessment of life cycle- and diagnosis-specific nutritional needs.
Prescribes enteral and parenteral nutrition support orders, assessing patients and calculating nutritional needs.
Evaluates patient tolerance and effectiveness of formulas and manages initiation or modifications to enteral/parenteral regimen orders.
Demonstrates extensive knowledge of specialized nutrition support (parenteral and enteral) and triages issues and concerns through collaboration with physicians and pharmacy.
Maintains secure communication with system level Pharmacy Integrated Clinical Services (PICS) team to manage and order Total Parental Nutrition (TPN) infusions.
Prescribes orders for therapeutic diets, oral nutrition supplements, and nutrition support regimens, including vitamins/minerals, fluid management, and lab work.
Utilizes order-writing privileges to implement nutrition related orders.
Collaborates with Food and Nutrition patient services team to ensure patient intake aligns with nutrition prescription and interdisciplinary plan of care.
Partners with site patient services team to identify and recommend appropriate clinical nutrition formula and supplement substitutions during supply chain disruptions.
Partners with physicians, nursing, and nutrition patient services to ensure diet restrictions, allergy restrictions, supplement preferences and tube feedings are consistent with patient needs and personal, religious, and cultural preferences.
Develops patient-specific menus for patients admitted with complex dietary needs.
Leads efforts to identify, treat and prevent malnutrition.
Performs Nutrition Focused Physical Examinations of high-risk patients to evaluate the loss of specific muscles and subcutaneous body fat.
Communicates findings to the medical team through medical record documentation.
Provides medical nutrition therapy education to patients identified with moderate or severe malnutrition.
Routinely documents elements of the Global Malnutrition Composite Score (GMCS) for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Nutrition Electronic Quality Indicators.
Participates in Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) efforts.
Maintains regulatory readiness and supports department clinical initiatives.
Identifies and documents billable nutrition diagnosis with supporting documentation.
May provide clinical support to various hospital-based outpatient medical destination programs.
Enters charges for outpatient nutrition charge capture in electronic medical record.
Supports partnerships with local didactic programs by precepting dietetic graduate students.
Directs and monitors interns’ progress and provides feedback.
Communicates regularly with didactic program coordinator.
Precepts medical residents and provides nutrition orientation as applicable.
Provides nutrition lectures to medical residents.
Collaborates routinely with discharge planners, home health, physicians, pharmacy, and other interdisciplinary teams.
Participates in interdisciplinary team rounds, meetings, and care conferences.
Assists with transition to home or outside facilities by partnering with Care Management and/or Home Health.
Provides medical nutrition therapy education to patients on prescribed diet.
Provides nutrition in-services to teammates, as applicable.
Provides clinical input into system clinical nutrition initiatives and practice changes.
Participates in system subgroups/projects to develop and implement evidence-based nutrition practices.
Partners with system patient services and clinical teams to deploy system changes and updates.
Liaisons between clinical nutrition and inpatient nursing and physicians to champion system clinical nutrition initiatives.
Assists other sites throughout the State, as needed, to provide clinical nutrition coverage.