Registered Dietitian (Part-Time, Day Shift)
About The Position
Provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents identified as having special needs or meeting nutritional risk criteria. Care includes patient assessment and reassessment, patient and family education, interdisciplinary communication, developing nutritional plans of care, and documenting interventions in accordance with policy and acceptable practice standards. The role requires competent clinical care using appropriate technical and decision-making skills. The Registered Dietitian assesses patients for nutritional risk, develops and evaluates nutrition plans, monitors nutritional intake, provides education, and administers medical nutrition therapy safely and accurately. The position also serves as an educational resource for health care personnel, dietetic interns, patients, families, and the community, and may assign or supervise personnel involved in nutrition-related data collection and patient care activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition or equivalent.
- Master’s degree is required only for candidates whose eligibility for examination began on or after January 1, 2024.
- Dietetic internship or equivalent.
- Registered Dietitian (RD) credential within six months of completion of the residency program.
- Receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a Clinical Dietitian.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients to determine nutritional risk and provide nutritional care using nutrition plans, appropriate meal patterns, intake monitoring, interventions, and nutritional education.
- Complete comprehensive initial nutritional assessments and ongoing reassessments of patients’ nutritional condition and stability, and determine nutritional diagnoses.
- Evaluate patients’ responses to and the effectiveness of implemented plans of care.
- Set patient care priorities and assign personnel to patient care activities in accordance with their job descriptions, scope of practice, and competency.
- Administer medical nutrition therapy safely and accurately, and monitor and document patient responses.
- Act as an educational resource for health care team personnel, dietetic interns, patients, family members, and the community.
- Orient and instruct new professional, registered, assistive, and ancillary personnel on job duties, assignments, and clinical activities of the unit.
- Provide learning opportunities to meet the nutrition education needs of patients, families, and significant others.
- Collect and assess data about patients’ nutritional condition and stability, and supervise indirect data collection by assigned personnel.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
