Registered Dietitian, Part Time, Day Shift
About The Position
Adventist Health Portland is seeking a part-time Registered Dietitian for a day-shift role. The position provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents who have special needs or meet nutritional risk criteria. Care includes assessment and reassessment, patient and family education, interdisciplinary communication, development of nutritional plans of care, and documentation of interventions in accordance with policy and accepted practice standards. The dietitian is expected to provide skilled, effective clinical care using appropriate technical and decision-making skills. The role assesses patients for nutritional risk, develops and evaluates nutrition plans, monitors intake and patient response, provides nutrition education, and helps coordinate patient-care activities. It also serves as an educational resource for healthcare personnel, dietetic interns, patients, families, and the community. The position may perform other job-related duties as assigned. Adventist Health requires associates to receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply. The organization participates in E-Verify.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition or equivalent.
- Master’s degree required only if 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.
- Oregon Dietitian licensure required in Oregon.
- Licensed Dietitian (LD) certification required for the facility.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a Clinical Dietitian.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients to determine nutritional risk and provide quality nutritional care using nutrition plans, appropriate meal patterns, intake monitoring, interventions, and nutrition education.
- Complete comprehensive initial nutritional assessments and ongoing reassessments of patients’ nutritional condition and stability, and determine nutritional diagnoses.
- Evaluate patients’ responses to the implementation of nutrition plans of care.
- Set patient-care priorities and assign personnel to care activities according to their job descriptions, scope of practice, skills, abilities, and competency.
- Administer medical nutrition therapy safely and accurately, including monitoring and documenting care and patient response.
- Act as an educational resource for healthcare team personnel, dietetic interns, patients, families, and the community.
- Orient and instruct new professional, registered, assistive, and ancillary personnel on job duties, assignments, and unit clinical activities.
- Provide learning opportunities that address the nutrition education needs of patients, families, and significant others.
- Collect and assess direct 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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Job Type
Part-time
