About the role
Overview
Performs a variety of tasks according to standard practices and procedures, and in complance with regulatory agency requirements that facilitate:
- Provision and documentation of comprehensive level clinical nutrition services to patients
- Maintenance of departmental quality assurance/quality control programs
- Provision of on-going nutritional education to medical/nursing and nutrition staff
- Following standard practices for regularly scheduled hours, productivity and employee behavior
- Maintaining and promoting awareness of hospital mission statement and programs in order to assist in accomplishing its goals.
Responsibilities
- Provides comprehensive level of clinical nutrition services appropriately and in timely manner by maintaining an efficient program for nutrition screening, assessment, follow-up care and counseling.
- Collaborates with clinical Nutrition Manager during admissions’ screening process by attending and participating in daily team meetings to receive/discuss daily patient visitation assignments.
- Collaborates with medical/nursing staff regarding individual patients to facilitate optimum nutrition care.
- Documents nutrition care provided in patient’s medical record in accordance with department standards.
- Delegates intermediate and basic care level patient visitation activities to graduate dietitians and diet clerks via CNM.
- Utilizes approved Nutrition Care Manual appropriately.
- Plans and implements educational programs for medical/nursing and nutrition staff and patients.
- Attends routine staff meetings, departmental/hospital in-services/orientation. Follows hospital policy on verification of attendance at same.
- Participate in departmental patient services quality assurance/quality control programs.
- Participates in the training of dietetic students.
- Participates in education programs or developmental in-services to improve skill levels.
Qualifications
Qualifying hospital intership experience. Successful completion of requirments for dietetic registration.
- 1 year experience in Clinical Nutrition
- Registered Dietitian
•ADA Registration as Dietitian
•Baccelaureate in Food and Nutrition or Dietetics