Registered Clinical Dietitian

About the role

A registered clinical dietitian with a focus on diabetes education and quality coordination is required. The position involves assessing and educating patients, residents, and staff across acute and long-term care settings. The dietitian collaborates with the Certified Dietary Manager and dietary staff to ensure quality meals are produced. Additionally, the dietitian oversees and participates in diabetes education and outpatient medical nutrition therapy.

Responsibilities

• Perform nutrition assessments for long-term care, acute care, swing bed, and surgical patients.
• Develop patient and resident menus in collaboration with other team members.
• Identify, monitor, and evaluate nutrition support regimens.
• Assess patients' learning needs, barriers to learning, preferred learning styles, and education level and provide nutrition education accordingly.
• Identify potential food-drug interactions and provide education based on identified needs.
• Facilitate resources throughout the continuum of care to foster patient outcomes.
• Perform outpatient and inpatient consultations as ordered by the provider.
• Collaborate with the patient and/or family member, and healthcare team to assess nutrition and education needs of patients. Provide services and establish goals based on the identified needs of patients and/or family members.
• Quarterly charting on long-term care center residents and monthly charting as needed for monitoring of high nutritional risk (wounds, weight changes).
• Attend care conferences for long-term care residents. Update resident care plan as needed.
• Provide community educational opportunities.
• Participate in interdisciplinary and departmental quality improvement criteria for patients across the continuum of care through quality goals and by supporting the facility goals.
• Communicate sound scientific principles, research, and theory to health care team members in optimally managing patients’ care.
• Foster a positive and collaborative working relationship with dietary CDM and staff.
• Participate in Discharge Planning Team, community diabetes support group, and other committees as assigned by the Department Director.
• Complete other duties as assigned by the Department Director.
• Oversee DSMES Services: Planning, implementing, and evaluating DSMES services using the ADA Program Recognition Standards.
• Participate in and ensure annual review of ongoing DSMES-specific continuous quality improvement plan.
• Supervise Educators: developing training materials, participating in peer review process, and appraising performance of Diabetes Educators (including self) to identify areas of improvement and develop an improvement plan.
• Ensure maintenance of 15 hours of continuing education annually for self and Diabetes Educators specific to diabetes, diabetes-related topics, behavior change, and self-management strategies.
• Provide diabetes education using evidence-based DSMES curriculum and provide Medical Nutrition Therapy for management of diabetes and other health conditions.

Requirements

• Must hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or Dietetics and have completed a Dietetic Internship from an accredited institution or a Coordinated Undergraduate Program.
• Registered with Commission on Dietetic Registration, or registration eligible, to be obtained within three months of hire.
• Current license or ability to obtain license through the Wyoming Dietetics Licensing Board.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, both organizational and departmental.
• Knowledge of personal computers, hardware, and software.
• Knowledge of our organization's Code of Business Conduct and Corporate Compliance Program.
• Knowledge of HIPAA and confidentiality requirements.
• Knowledge of national patient safety standards.
• Knowledge of customer service techniques and organizational cultural management methods.
• Knowledge of leadership skills.
• Knowledge of long-term care and acute care demographics.
• Knowledge of HCAHPS scores, MDS assessments for Long Term Care, Long Term Care Regulations, International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI), and Diabetes Education and American Diabetes Association Program Recognition Standards.

Skills

• Professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Application of resident/patient menu creation (MealSuite).
• Budgeting and fiscal controls.
• Utilization of personal computers and Microsoft Office programs (Windows, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Presentation skills for community education.
• Interpersonal communication skills for community outreach and internal education opportunities.
• Ability to incorporate population-specific needs into all aspects of communication and patient care.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to manage multiple complex and/or competing priorities effectively.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure.
• Ability to influence and mentor others to enhance their leadership attributes.
• Complexity and difficulty in understanding resident and patient food preferences when designing meals.
• Complexity and difficulty in understanding Long-Term Care regulations regarding cultural competency and food choices.

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