Clinical Dietitian

About This Role

Caring for patients by completing nutrition-focused physical assessments and evaluating data to identify nutrition risks is at the heart of this clinical dietitian role. The position involves offering nutrition interventions, education, counseling, and referrals to other services, suitable for a professional dedicated to promoting optimal patient outcomes through nutritional management.

Responsibilities

• Complete nutrition-focused physical assessments, take measurements, review medical records, collect data via interviews, and evaluate anthropometric status
• Evaluate assessment data to identify nutrition risks, nutrition problems, criteria consistent with malnutrition, knowledge deficits, and high-risk health behaviors
• Offer nutrition interventions, orders, education, counseling, and referrals to other services
• May place feeding tubes or perform indirect calorimetry studies
• Provide counseling and education using evidence-based techniques that reflect appropriate health literacy and cultural sensitivity to patients with disease processes requiring nutritional management
• Monitor and evaluate nutrition care plans to reach nutrition goals and promote optimal outcomes
• Supervise practice experience for dietetic interns, dietetic technicians, registration eligible dietitians and new employees, participate in research, performance improvement, and initiatives
• Enter complete, accurate, and timely electronic health record documentation
• Enter nutrition orders when authorized by Medical Staff policy and procedure to reflect patient care
• Participate in patient care rounds, collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals to create nutrition plans of care
• Promote evidence-based nutrition care and make expertise available to foodservice areas
• Provide timely responses to internal electronic communication
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Read, write and speak English; handwriting must be legible
• Knowledgeable with the National Research Council's Recommended Dietary Allowances
• Ability to communicate patient nutrition needs to the physician, nursing staff, and other appropriate staff
• Ability to apply Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Care Process
• Mathematical capabilities essential to job duties
• Proficient in Microsoft Windows
• Ability to use a telephone, calculator, copy machine, fax machine, and computer
• Inter-campus travel
• Bachelor's degree
• Completion of a didactic program in dietetics and supervised practice program approved by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND) in nutrition or nutrition related field AND 3-year clinical experience