Registered Dietitian

Registered Dietitian

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and experience world-class patient care at its best. Located in sunny Florida's Treasure Coast, Indian River Hospital is committed to providing optimal family- and community-focused services. Here, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate, and innovative team of caregivers. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and will build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

A Registered Dietitian in this role helps people in our community to regain and/or improve their health. The Dietitian will provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education and counseling to patients. This role works collaboratively with other health disciplines and departments to optimize nutrition care and patient experience.

A caregiver in this position works days, 8:00am—4:30pm.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct patient care using medical nutrition therapy for an assigned patient population.
• Provide counseling and education services to patients with disease processes that require nutritional management.
• Implement a nutritional care plan, communicates plan, establishes a follow-up system and maintains documentation.
• Write changes for diet orders and initiate nutrient intake assessments.
• Assess patients for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies and evaluate appropriate fluid and electrolytes.
• Review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of patients' nutritional status and need for changes in diet.
• Coordinate efforts of dietetic technician assigned to area.
• Develop and contribute to Cleveland Clinic sponsored education programs for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, students, peers and the public.
• Create and revise education materials related to disease management through medical nutrition therapy.
• Participate in program development designed to market and expand departmental services and revenue generation.
• Market services to potential and current referral sources; develops and implements services in response to client's needs and wants.
• Actively contribute to departmental initiatives, including committees and projects.
• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.
• Complete reports for ongoing productivity tracking.
• Participate in professional growth activities; attends and contributes to conferences and seminars on nutrition and related topics.
• Represent Cleveland Clinic on nutrition related matters.
• Conduct clinical research and utilize clinical software applications to facilitate care.
• Comply with all regulatory organizations including CMS, JCAO, ADA and policies and procedures of the department and Cleveland Clinic.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a closely related field
• Maintain current license to practice dietetics in the current state (LD) and active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
• One year of 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 and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
• Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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