Pediatric Renal Dietitian

Job Summary

The Division of Pediatrics Nephrology in the University of Utah, School of Medicine has an immediate opening for a Clinical Dietitian. The Clinical Dietitian will work with departmental and interdisciplinary healthcare team to provide patient care that is integrated and compatible with patient-centered medical goals and objectives. This position is responsible for assessing the nutritional status, identifying nutritional concerns, and developing, implementing and evaluating outcomes of nutrition care plans for patients at nutritional risk.

Responsibilities

• Counsels and educates patients and their families on nutritional needs and/or therapeutic diets.

• Assesses the nutritional status, identifies nutritional concerns, and develops, implements and evaluates outcomes of nutrition care plans for patients at nutritional risk.

• Reviews and evaluates patients’ diet history, anthropometric measures, and pertinent lab values and assesses nutritional needs based on DRI’s for age, medical condition and therapies, and medications.

• Communicates laboratory results and changes to diet/medication therapy to patients and providers and provides diet education to patients/parents as needed.

• Recommends appropriate feeding modality, diet, or nutrition support (oral, enteral, parenteral) for macro and micronutrients and fluids in collaboration with pediatric nephrologist and monitors patients' response to the daily nutrient intake making appropriate recommendations for nutritional intervention when necessary.

• Works cooperatively with health care providers, patient/client/caregivers to implement and communicate the nutrition care plan and expected outcomes.

• Participates in outcome measure initiatives to validate nutrition program performance and creates reports.

• Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities, including information for scheduling and billing.

• Rotates on-call responsibilities with other renal dietitians to provide inpatient nutrition consultation for hospitalized renal patients including dialysis and transplant patients and pediatric nephrology patients requiring renal diet modifications/nutrition support.

• Participates in Pediatric Nephrology inpatient rounds as needed.

• May enter nutrition-related orders, as defined by University of Utah Registered Dietitian Order Writing Protocol.

• Works in close collaboration with all members of the renal transplant and dialysis teams to provide optimal communication and enhancement of patient nutritional care, education and research.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

• Current License to practice as a Certified Dietitian in the State of Utah.

• Nutrition Focused Physical Exam (NFPE) Training.