Registered Dietitian (Part-Time, Day Shift)

Adventist Health•Hanford, CA

14h

About The Position

Adventist Health Hanford is a 173-bed hospital with outpatient clinics serving the Central Valley community. The Registered Dietitian provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents with special needs or who meet nutritional-risk criteria. Care includes assessment and reassessment, patient and family education, interdisciplinary communication, developing nutritional plans of care, and documenting interventions according to policy and accepted practice standards. The dietitian provides skilled clinical care using appropriate technical and decision-making skills. This is a part-time, day-shift position. A bachelor's degree in food and nutrition or equivalent and a dietetic internship or equivalent are required. A master's degree is required only for those whose eligibility for examination began on or after January 1, 2024. Clinical Dietitian experience is preferred. Registered Dietitian (RD) certification is required within six months of completion of the residency program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition or equivalent.
Dietetic internship or equivalent.
Registered Dietitian (RD) certification within six months of completion of the residency program.
Master’s degree if eligibility for examination began on or after January 1, 2024.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a Clinical Dietitian.

Responsibilities

Assess patients to identify those at nutritional risk.
Provide nutritional care by using nutrition plans, facilitating appropriate meal patterns, monitoring nutritional intake, initiating interventions, and providing nutrition education.
Complete initial nutritional assessments and ongoing reassessments, including evaluating nutritional condition and stability and determining nutritional diagnoses.
Evaluate patients’ responses to and the effectiveness of implemented plans of care.
Set patient-care priorities appropriately.
Assign personnel to patient-care activities according to their job descriptions, scope of practice, competencies, and abilities.
Administer medical nutrition therapy safely and accurately, including monitoring and documenting care and patient responses.
Serve 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.
Provide learning opportunities that meet the nutrition education needs of patients, families, and significant others.
Collect and assess direct data about patients’ nutritional condition and stability.
Supervise indirect data collection performed by assigned personnel.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.