Are you an experienced Registered Dietitian or Dietitian Technician, Registered looking for a new opportunity with a prestigious healthcare company? Do you want the chance to advance your career by joining a rapidly growing company? If you answered “yes" to any of these questions – this is the position for you!
Daily Responsibilities:
- Evaluates medical histories and clinical data and recommends to the physicians appropriate medical nutrition therapy for hospital in-patients and out-patients. Provides nutritional assessment and determines through applications of various published standards whether individuals are at nutritional risk.
- Designs, implements and monitors specialized and individualized enteral and parental nutrition regimens; facilitates and monitors transitional feeding regimens.
- Serves as a resource on enteral nutrition delivery systems and educates patients, and family members and healthcare team members on their use; acts as a resource for physicians, other healthcare professionals and the public on nutrition.
- Participates in discharge planning for home nutrition support patients; educates and counsels patients individually and in group settings on special diets for various disease states.
- Evaluates educational materials for patients; participates in quality assurance programs; participates in chart reviews with other health care team members assessing patient nutritional needs; assists in special projects as assigned.
- Assists in the development, revision and updating of diet manuals hospital menus and special diets
Hours for this Position: Shift: Monday – Friday Day time shift
- CA License
- Primary Source On-line Verification- Required (Verify license online and upload)
- Knowledge of nutrition requirements and food economics- Required
- At least 1 year Dietitian experience- Required (how many years?)
- Knowledge of: Medical nutritional therapy, the biochemical and physiological process and functions of specific nutrients in meeting nutritional needs throughout the life cycle and for special disease states
- Nutritional counseling techniques; specialized therapeutic diet menu and meal planning
- Working knowledge of nutrition requirements and food economics for patients on therapeutic diets; knowledge of the practices, procedures, and equipment used in food preparation activities.
- Ability to perform nutritional assessments and make appropriate recommendations for specialized medical nutrition therapy; analyze and assess the nutritional content of diets
- Implement nutrition education material; counsel patients on appropriate diet for specific disease states
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, food service employees, co-workers, patients, and other groups and individuals encountered in the course of the job
- Document clear, concise and appropriate nutrition notes in the medical record.
Contact me directly; Marjorie Mora @ 407-636-7030 ext 203
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This role is hosted by Healthcare Support Staffing. We link out — apply directly on their site.
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