Registered Dietitian

Job Summary

To plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease in accordance with medical nutrition care protocols. To counsel individuals or groups, conduct nutritional research, and/or provide program participant certification.

Responsibilities

• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
• Assesses nutritional status, identifies nutrition problems, and formulates a comprehensive care plan according to patient needs including age, cognitive, social, and physical developmental stage, culture, severity of diseases, conditions of impairment or disability, and physical signs of malnutrition.
• Determines nutrition goals and recommends comprehensive nutrition interventions to resolve or improve nutrition problems and achieve goals, including but not limited to: fluid, electrolyte, and glucose management, management of pharmacotherapy in relation to drug-nutrient interactions, supplements, enteral and parenteral formulas, equipment needed to deliver nutrition formulas, transitional feeding plans and post discharge nutrition care plans.
• Confers with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient.
• Educates patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and modification, and food selection and preparation; arranges for individual follow-up as needed.
• Counsels individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition maintenance to improve their quality of life.
• Certifies individuals for participation in programs such as women, infants, and children (WIC) and research programs as appropriate.

Requirements

• Education & Experience: Meet the requirements for registration as a registered dietitian (RD) by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
• Certifications, Licenses or Registration required: Mississippi licensure within the applicable time frame. Registered dietitian (RD) by the commission on dietetic registration (CDR) within the applicable time frame.