Registered Dietitian Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge and application of nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy.
• General knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing, and spreadsheet software.
• Exceptional customer service/public relations skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal form to patients, public, medical staff, and physicians.
• Ability to function independently on assigned patient care units.
• Ability to effectively counsel and educate others.

Responsibilities

• Conducts a nutrition assessment for patients at nutritional risk within required time frames.
• Obtains timely and appropriate data and analyzes/interprets data based on evidence-based standards.
• Provides appropriate documentation that summarizes the nutrition care plan in the patient's medical record, including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, plan/goals, implementation, and progress toward goals.
• Participates in multidisciplinary care conferences and discharge planning activities as appropriate.
• Works closely with other disciplines including OT, PT, speech and social services to insure continuity of care.
• Performs nutrition diagnosis after identifying the problem and clarifying the cause of the problem with the patient's medical team.
• Develops and implements or makes recommendations for an individualized plan for nutrition intervention, including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Reviews/approves therapeutic diets to insure compliance with all state and federal guidelines.
• Assesses and evaluates techniques that consider the varied needs of age-specific populations as well as cultural, religious, and ethnic concerns.
• Works collaboratively with and provides area supervision of dining service staff to assure accuracy of diet prescriptions and high level of customer satisfaction/scores.
• Provides appropriate follow-up in accordance with the patient's treatment goals, referring patients for outpatient counseling, community resources or home services as appropriate.
• Conducts in-services and educational presentations to hospital/department staff.
• Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities, as required, including information for scheduling and billing of ambulatory care services.
• Participates in the orientation and training of new dietitians and DTR's.
• Functions as a preceptor to dietetic students and interns.
• Plans learning experiences, teaches, and evaluates performance of students and interns.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Eligible for Merit based raise every year of up to 3% of the hourly rate.
• Eligible for continuing education/certification raise 3% of the hourly rate.
• Being a part of a supportive team where you are able to care for a variety of units (Acute, CCU, BHU, etc.).