Registered Dietitian-PRN- Days- Las Vegas NV

ScionHealth-posted 4 months ago
Full-time
Las Vegas, NV
Hospitals
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ScionHealth is committed to a culture of service excellence as demonstrated by our employees' adherence to the service excellence principles of Pride, Teamwork, Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Fun, Professionalism, and Responsibility. As our most acute level of care, our specialty hospitals offer the same critical care patients receive in a traditional hospital or intensive care unit, but for an extended recovery period. Our clinicians play a vital role in the recovery process for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients.

  • Responsible for the planning and implementation of the nutrition care of the patients in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local standards and regulations, clinical guidelines, and policies and procedures.
  • Collaborates with the Culinary Services Manager to ensure high quality nutrition care is provided to the patients through oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition therapy.
  • Completes annual competency testing and maintains professional growth and development portfolio to maintain registration and licensure/certification.
  • Performs job based on applicable federal, state, and local regulations, company policies and procedures, and evidenced based clinical guidelines.
  • Conducts initial and reassessments on all patients admitted to the hospital.
  • Ensures proper completion of documentation (assessments, care plans, education, discharge planning).
  • Prescribes nutrition therapy to meet estimated needs and monitors tolerance.
  • Provides ongoing reassessment to ensure optimal nutrition therapy is provided.
  • Participates with interdisciplinary team meetings to develop, implement, and monitor the nutrition care plan.
  • Interviews patients, family members, legal representatives, and/or significant others to obtain diet history, food preferences, and other pertinent information needed to develop and/or update plan of care.
  • Advocates for patient to protect and promote patients' rights, and accommodate individual needs and cultural/religious preferences.
  • Involves the patient/family in planning objectives and goals for the patient.
  • Conducts nutrition education individually and in classes to patients, families, staff, and community as appropriate.
  • Conducts meal rounds to ensure patients are receiving therapy that meets patients' needs.
  • Coordinates with culinary department to resolve patients' concerns or dissatisfactions with diet or meal service.
  • Provides oversight to the menu management process ensuring all aspects of the menu flow process is completed per policies and procedures.
  • Reviews and approves all patient menus in the facility; must approve any substitutions provided to patients.
  • Reviews and approves all nutritional data posted in the café.
  • Provides oversight for the transcription of diet orders in the department to ensure accuracy.
  • Ensures all patient snack orders are checked against the diet order and distributed to patients timely.
  • Provides training to all staff as needed on therapeutic diets, menu process, food allergens, or other related topics.
  • Participates in the hospital's performance improvement program by conducting, aggregating, trending, and acting on data for key department indicators.
  • Participates in quality assurance activities that ensure oral nutrition therapy is safe and accurate from the culinary department.
  • Communicates issues, concerns, and opportunities for improvement to supervisor routinely.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in dietetics or nutrition related field required.
  • Registration from the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
  • Licensure and/or certification from the State Licensing Board for Dietitians.
  • Two years experience in acute care hospital, preferred.
  • Knowledge of therapeutic diets.
  • Knowledge in current clinical nutrition guidelines.
  • Knowledge of federal, state, and city food codes and regulations.
  • Basic computer skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office and ability to learn menu management system.
  • Must read, write, and speak fluent English.
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  • 401(k)
  • FSA/HSA
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Wellness
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