Registered Dietitian

Pay Range: $48 to $52/hr.

Title: Registered Dietitian
Location: Jackson MI 49201
Job Type: Contract
Shift: Flexible hours. Start times from 6:00 am to 9:00 am.
Schedule: 4 - 10s or 5 - 8's or combination on shift hours. Flexibility on start and stop time.

Job Description:

• Act as nutritional consultant and resource to members of the health care team.
• Provides comprehensive nutritional care including assessment, Nutrition Diagnosis, implementation of a care plan, counseling, education, and evaluation of outcomes to patients, families, and associates.
• Coordinates various education programs and seminars on nutritional topics.

Principle Duties And Responsibilities:

• Assess the nutritional needs of patients by obtaining, verifying, and interpreting data needed to identify nutrition related problems, their causes and significance.
• Determine from patient/family, medical record, and health care team the food and nutrition related history, anthropometric measurements, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedures, nutrition-focused physical findings and the client history.
• Determine the nutrition diagnosis to identify and describe a specific nutrition problem (Intake, Clinical or Behavioral-Environmental) that can be resolved or improved through treatment/nutrition intervention by the registered dietitian.
• Implement nutrition interventions to resolve or improve the identified nutrition problem.
• Nutrition therapy is based on individualized, specific patient care needs, including food and or nutrient delivery (meals, snacks, supplements, enteral or parenteral), nutrition education, nutrition counseling, and coordination of care.
• Monitor and evaluate patient care outcomes to determine the amount of progress made and whether goals/expected outcomes are being met. (Food/nutrition related history outcomes, anthropometric measurement outcomes, biochemical data, medical tests, and procedure outcomes, and nutrition-focused physical finding outcomes.
• Monitor patient’s food tolerances to ensure appropriate food consistencies and assess adequate nutritional intake.
• Collaborate and communicate with health care providers.
• Acts as consultant
• Informs team of advances in diet therapy, unusual diet related lab results, or other pertinent facts related to the nutritional care of the patient.
• Investigates unusual occurrences/customer service complaints.
• Educate patients and/or their significant other as appropriate, on nutrition and special diets to be followed during and after hospitalization based on physician’s order to aid in maintaining patient’s health.
• Maintain documentation of nutrition services provided in the patient’s medical record.
• Develop and conduct in-service classes, community education and other health and nutrition offerings as requested or assigned.
• Participate in special projects and committees related to the nutritional care of patients as needed.
• Maintain and enhance professional expertise through appropriate educational and organizational activities.
• Develop and maintains educational resources appropriate to patient and audience needs as required.
• Supervise dietetic interns/students orienting them to the profession and providing clinical teaching, precepting and mentoring throughout their program.
• Acts as a liaison with the department of culinary wellness, both patient foodservice and retail foodservice, addressing patient, employee, visitor, or staff needs.
• Demonstrate professional characteristics and ethics by adhering to department and organizational policy and maintaining up to date knowledge and skills in field of expertise.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Required:

• Registered Dietitian
• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
• Bachelors
• Exp: 1 year of recent full-time experience (within past 5 years) as a RD in acute care, nursing home or inpatient rehab/LTACH setting.
• Trained in completion of NFPE.
• Experience with enteral and parenteral nutrition.

Preferred:

• ICU experience.
• Advanced Practice Certification

Physical Deamns/Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment with minimal exposure to noise, dust, or extreme temperatures.

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