Registered Dietitian

About the role

Our inpatient rehabilitation hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas. Located at 201 Pleasant Hill, Chester NJ.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality nutritional care to patients, such as the development, implementation, and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapies.
• Work collaboratively with the medical staff, patients, families, and food service department to ensure the patients’ nutrition care plans are implemented and departmental standards are maintained.
• Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments, identifying goals, recommending nutrition interventions, monitoring, and evaluating patient progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Work closely with the Speech Therapy Department to assist with the progression of textured modified diets to ensure patient safety and optimize oral intake.
• Clarify admission orders to ensure nutrition support, diet, and oral supplement orders are consistent with the facility’s established nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
• Consider religious, cultural, and ethnic factors in the development of nutrition care plans.
• Review yearly updates and approve the therapeutic diet manual annually.
• Educates clinical and food service staff on the location of the Nutrition Care Manual.
• Maintains a hard copy of the simplified diet manual for downtime.
• Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories.
• Maintains current professional registration requirements (i.e., Professional Portfolio, self-development, and continuing education).
• Demonstrates interest in continuing education, academics, or specialized certification to further enhance professional skills.
• Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and communicate progress and special needs.
• Participate in developing, planning, and standardizing menus.
• Perform meal rounds to ensure patients' meal trays are consistent with the prescribed diet and meet standards as to quality, quantity