Clinical Dietitian - Per Diem, Bariatrics Program

Responsible for

• Maintain ethics standards within the professional and hospital guidelines.
• Design and implements individualized nutrition care plans for hospitalized and ambulatory patients across the life span, considering cultural and religious diversity.
• Prioritizes patient caseload based on assigned level of risk.
• Collaborates daily with interdisciplinary care teams on nutrition care plan development in the context of the medical management.
• May be asked to assist with orientation and training of new level 1 dietitians and nutrition assistants.
• Provides cross-coverage of RD assignments as needed.
• Participates in weekend & holiday clinical nutrition coverage.
• Completes productivity data.
• Participates in clinical team by providing input to team decisions, facilitating open communication among the group, and by attending all team meetings.
• Participates in service-specific graduate medical education and other educational opportunities (after 1 year).

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian as delineated by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• Maintenance of continuing education requirements for dietetic registration.
• Experience (see also competency based objectives and level advancement criteria)