Clinical Dietitian

Clinical Dietitian

The Clinical Dietitian within Franciscan Health coordinates the nutritional aspects of patient care in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. The Dietitian serves as a resource for promoting nutrition education within the organization and community. This position performs and documents nutrition assessments for at risk patients identified through nutrition screening, and identifies nutrient requirements according to age and disease-specific needs of patients. The Clinical Dietitian, also, provides diet education and counseling on therapeutic diets, and collaborates with other hospital services to implement the nutrition care plan.

Franciscan Health is a leading healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional patient care and promoting health and wellness in our community. Our mission is to ensure that every patient receives the highest quality of care through innovation, compassion, and excellence. With 12 ministries and access points across Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers who provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.

What You Can Expect

• Calculate patients' nutritional needs for oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition.
• Maintain pertinent patient data necessary to recommend, prescribe, or modify therapeutic diets as needed.
• Participate in patient care conferences and collaborate with other hospital services, including medical staff, nursing, pharmacy, and social work.
• Perform and document nutritional assessments, including nutrition-focused physical assessments, when applicable, and evaluate patient tolerance to therapeutic diets, when appropriate.
• Perform nutrition reassessment by monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the nutrition care plan.
• Perform patient access duties: schedules, checks in, checks out, and enter charges for nutrition appointments.
• Review medical records, and interview the patient and their caregivers to collect food and nutrition-related history or client history assessment data.
• Serve as preceptor for dietetic interns, and provides on-the-job training for new hires.

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree Dietetics/Nutrition Related Field
• 2 years Clinical Dietetics Preferred
• Registered Dietitian (RD) - State Licensing Board
• State Certification or Licensure

Travel is required. Equal opportunity employer.