DIETICIAN - NUTRITIONAL SERVICES

Nutritional Care Provider

Basic Function: To provide and ensure the nutritional aspects of patient care and to provide educational and instructional service to patients, families and community at large.

Job Duties:

• Complete nutritional assessments utilizing the Nutrition Care Process for AACH hospital patients per Nutritional Services policy
• Complete nutritional assessments utilizing the Nutrition Care Process and appropriate MDS sections for Community Care Center residents per Federal, State and Facility Regulations
• Provide inpatient instructions appropriate to prescription and individualized to the patient
• Provide dietary counseling to patients, family and/or caretakers
• Collaborate in patients care by acting as consultant to physicians, nurses, medical social workers and other para-medical persons in all areas of normal and therapeutic nutrition
• Consult with physicians concerning dietary prescriptions and implementing these through nutrition intake adapted to the needs of individual patients
• Recommend supplements and enteral feedings
• Attend multi-disciplinary rounds to coordinate patient care
• Approve patient and resident menus
• Evaluate and prepare education materials
• Maintain safety and sanitary standards of the department
• Weekend/holiday on-call per rotation and provide vacation/leave coverage
• Maintain current registration and licensure
• Other duties as assigned

Health Caring Standards/Values:

• Greet customers, visitors, and Colleagues immediately with a smile, warm greeting, and introduction, calling them by name if possible
• Exceed the expected and anticipate the unexpected by asking, Is there anything else I or a fellow Colleague can do for you?
• Always provide a comforting, timely, caring departure, or discharge, and always say thanks for allowing us to serve
• Integrity, openness, and fairness in all you do
• Teamwork
• Pride in Department
• Individual creativity and Innovation
• Compassion and caring
• Maintain department and hospital standards and policies

Age Appropriate Care:

• Colleague has been instructed in providing customer service and on interacting with age groups as related to the department’s general client population: including use of appropriate interventions, communication and skills to match the age and/or abilities of the patient/family

Machines, Tools # Equipment Used:

• Computer, iPad, copier, and fax machine

Education, Training # Experience:

• Registered Dietitian, licensed in the state of Ohio
• Ability to educate clients of diverse backgrounds and education levels
• Ability to work with all types of people
• Ability to make appropriate decisions
• Ability to flex hours and assignments to complete all aspects of job in a limited schedule
• Must be computer literate to complete task(s) as required

Physical Requirements:

• Able to stand/walk to various hospital departments intermittently through an 8.0 hr. shift
• Able to sit at a desk for up to 4 hours at a time
• Able to bend to reach items on the floor, desk level and overhead
• Able to lift books and supplies weighing 25 lbs. intermittently
• Able to see clearly and hear normal speaking tones
• Able to communicate verbally interpersonally and over the telephone in a clear and concise speech
• Dexterity necessary to write legibly and type for long periods; up to four hours at a time
• Able to lift, push or pull 25 lbs. intermittently, unassisted (50 lbs with assistance/team lifting)

Responsible To: Director Nutritional Services