Medical Nutrition Coordinator

Lincare•Cary, NC

About The Position

The Medical Nutrition Coordinator performs patient follow-up and is generally responsible for evaluating patient adherence to physician orders. The role provides patient education and assessment, supports enteral home-care services, coordinates documentation and insurance-related information, and delivers or retrieves feeding equipment and supplies at patients’ homes or places of business. The coordinator helps ensure continuous, coordinated patient care and the safe, effective use of feeding equipment, while maintaining organized records and professional interactions with patients and referral sources.

Requirements

Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Able to calculate figures and amounts, including commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Able to solve practical problems and handle concrete variables in situations with limited standardization.
Able to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-form instructions.
Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, and email communications.
Excellent human-relations skills to communicate with doctors, other referral sources, and patients.

Nice To Haves

One year of experience in home health care, a hospital, clinic, or nursing home is strongly preferred.
Experience or education in dietetics, nutrition, home health, or nursing is strongly preferred.
One year of experience as an LPN, DTR, or CNA is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide patient education as part of patient care, according to patient needs and policy.
Perform complete, professional patient assessments in accordance with policies and procedures.
Maintain current knowledge of enteral home-care techniques and relevant enteral therapy concepts.
Represent the company through professional appearance, patient-care activities, and written reports.
Gather information from referral sources to help ensure insurance coverage for each enteral patient.
Follow up on paperwork needed to ensure payment for services rendered.
Maintain complete, organized patient records in compliance with accreditation standards.
Drive to admit patients and deliver or pick up enteral formula, feeding pumps, IV poles, and related feeding supplies at patients’ homes or places of business.
Provide patient care, treatment, and services continuously and in a coordinated manner in settings appropriate to patient needs.
Promote safe and effective patient and organizational environments and safe feeding-equipment use.
Participate in ongoing education, including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve individual competence.