Registered Dietitian / Part Time

Location: Memphis, TN - Inside of Baptist East Hospital

Schedule

Part Time - 20 Hours Week

Pay

$23.00 to $40.00 per hour

About the role

Select Specialty Hospital - Memphis East is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives - and Registered Dietitians play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent care every step of the way.

Benefits

• Extensive and thorough Registered Dietitian orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members.
• Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection.
• Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.

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 development of nutrition care plans.
• Review yearly updates and approve therapeutic diet manual annually.
• Educate clinical and food service staff on location of the Nutrition Care Manual. Maintains hard copy of simplified diet manual for downtime.
• Keep current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintain current professional registration requirements (i.e., Professional Portfolio, self-development and continuing education). Demonstrate 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, temperature and appearance.

Requirements

• Current state licensure/certification, if required by state.
• Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
• One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.