Registered Dietitian - Macomb Regional Dialysis Center - Contingent

Duties & Responsibilities

• Interviews patients (and others as relevant) for initial and update assessments
• Affords initial and ongoing nutritional status assessments
• Calculates, prescribes, and instructs others regarding diets for patients
• Provides nutritional education to patient, caregivers, and unit staff
• Collaborates with other health care facilities and maintains communication with hospitals, extended care facilities, home health care agencies, senior centers, and “Meals on Wheels” staff
• Makes recommendations regarding phosphorus binder initiation, type and dosage changes, renal vitamins, stool softeners, oral iron products, cinacalcet, and oral vitamin D analogs and calcium supplements
• Makes recommendations regarding nutritional issues, such as alternate feeding routes, tube feedings, supplemental feedings, and monitors status
• Performs crisis intervention, such as responding to panic values and hyperkalemia
• Maintains medication monitoring as it relates to drug-nutrient interactions
• Participates in interdisciplinary patient care meetings with appropriate documentation on patient care plans
• Participates in unit quality improvement meetings and activities
• Acts as an integral part of the interdisciplinary health care team, making and receiving referrals, and education awareness and utilization of existing educational materials; upgrades and develops new materials
• Functions as a professional role model
• Participates in professional development activities, such as attending meetings, conferences, professional memberships, and professional reading, particularly as they relate to the field of nephrology
• Maintains ADA registration through continuing education in the field of nephrology
• May participate in protocol management
• Makes recommendations to patients and team based on nutritional assessments/reassessments
• Mentors Dietetic Interns as requested
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Requires Bachelor of Science in Nutrition
• Requires completion of an approved dietetic internship
• Requires ADA Registration and minimum of 1 year professional experience as RD in clinical nutrition

Additional Information

• Organization: Community Care Services
• Department: MRDC Incenter Dialysis
• Shift: Day
• Job Union Code: Not Applicable