Description
The Registered Dietitian Clinical facilitates the nutrition care process to provide individuals with quality medical nutrition therapy for common disease states and/or to promote optimal wellness.
Responsibilities
- Completes and documents nutrition assessments.
- Assesses and interprets nutrition-related lab values.
- Identifies and documents nutrition diagnoses.
- Implements appropriate nutrition interventions, including quality nutrition education based on customer needs, expectations, and culture.
- Monitors and evaluates individual nutrition outcomes related to nutrition diagnosis, goals, and interventions.
- Communicates nutrition expertise with all relevant healthcare providers.
- Collaborates with other dietitians, referring patients to specialty-trained dietitians as needed.
- Supports nutrition care across the healthcare continuum.
- Participates in department continuous improvement projects.
- Has Registered Dietitian Nutritionist order-writing privileges per policy/protocol.
Requirements
- Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration or registration-eligible. If hired in registration-eligible status, the employee must pass the Registered Dietitian credentialing exam within 6 months of hire.
- Completion of an ACEND-accredited Didactic Program in Dietetics, Dietetic Internship, Coordinated Program, or graduate-level competency-based dietitian nutritionist program.
- State licensure or certification in accordance with the primary state of practice requirement for Registered Dietitians.
Benefits We offer a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Pay Rate: $29.43 - $45.39 per hour