Registered Dietician - PRN Days
TrustPoint Hospital•Murfreesboro, TN
About The Position
Serve as an expert in the use of food and nutrition to promote health and manage disease. This PRN day-shift role pays $33.00 per hour.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Dietetics, Nutrition, or a similar field acceptable for licensure.
- Current registered dietician credential or registration as required by the state, or eligibility for endorsement by the state in which the facility provides services.
Responsibilities
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
- Provide nutritional assessments according to facility policy and regulations.
- Review and approve menus developed by the facility.
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve quality of life.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine patients’ nutritional needs and diet restrictions.
- Participate in treatment teams as appropriate.
- Review and approve the facility diet manual annually in conjunction with medical staff.
- Promote better health by speaking to groups about diet, nutrition, and the relationship between good eating habits and preventing or managing specific diseases.
- Monitor food service operations as needed to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation, and quality standards.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
