Registered Dietitian - Outpatient Oncology

About the role

Cleveland Clinic’s Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute (DDSI) provides patients with the most advanced level of medical and surgical care, primarily focused on the safe and proven treatment of disorders related to the gastrointestinal tract. Of the top digestive disease centers in the United States, DDSI is the first of its kind to unite all specialists in one unique, fully integrated model of care – aimed at optimizing the patient experience. Cleveland Clinic is recognized in the U.S. and throughout the world for its expertise and care.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education, and counseling to patients.
• Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system, and maintain documentation.
• Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for nutritional deficiencies, evaluate fluids and electrolytes, review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of their patients’ nutritional status and need for diet changes.
• Create and revise education materials, participate in program development, and develop, implement and market services.
• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics or a related field
• Current licensure to practice dietetics in the current state (LD)
• Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
• One year experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition
• Successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program may substitute for experience requirement

Physical Requirements

• Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital
• Manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry
• Physical ability to measure and weigh patients

Personal Protective Equipment

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Pay

Minimum Annual Salary: $52,270.00
Maximum Annual Salary: $79,727.50