Registered Dietitian - Inpatient Acute Care

Cleveland Clinic•Vero Beach, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Indian River has been recognized as one of the top regional hospitals in South Florida. Indian River Hospital is in sunny Florida’s Treasure Coast where it is committed to providing optimal family-centric and community-focused care. At Indian River Hospital, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate, and innovative team of caregivers. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and will build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. Indian River Hospital is looking to add a Registered Dietitian to its team of compassionate caregivers. The Registered Dietitian in this role will provide specialized nutrition therapy to patients within the inpatient setting, assessing needs, creating nutrition plans (including tube or IV feeding), educating patients and families, and collaborating with doctors and nurses to manage conditions like diabetes, kidney disease, and malnutrition for better healing and health outcomes. It will be your goal to ensure each patient meets their nutritional needs while they are in the hospital. This is a great hands-on role that will allow you to advance your skills and potentially grow into management or coordinator roles down the line. A caregiver in this position works Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:00AM – 5:00PM, including every 5th Saturday.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a closely related field
Maintain current licensure to practice Dietetics in the current state (LD)
Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
One year of experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition OR successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program
Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Responsibilities

Provide direct patient care using medical nutrition therapy for an assigned patient population.
Provide counseling and education services to patient with disease processes that require nutritional management.
Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system and maintain documentation.
Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, evaluate appropriate fluid and electrolytes, review laboratory and clinical progress notes, inform physicians of patients' nutritional status and need for changes in diet, enteral or parenteral feeding and develop care plans, documentation and reassessments.
Develop and contribute to Cleveland Clinic sponsored education programs for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, students, peers and the public.
Create and revise education materials related to disease management through medical nutrition therapy.
Participate in program development designed to market and expand departmental services and revenue generation.
Market services to potential and current referral sources and develop and implement services in response to client's needs and wants.
Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.
Complete reports for ongoing productivity tracking.
Participate in professional growth activities and attend and contribute to conferences and seminars on nutrition and related topics.
Conduct clinical research.
Comply with all regulatory organizations, including CMS, JCAO and ADA, and policies and procedures of the department and Cleveland Clinic.