Clinical Dietitian/Nutritionist [C]

Job Description

Job Description

Clinical Dietitian/Nutritionist
New York NY
13 weeks
Schedule Notes: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Education :
Required Education:
-Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition or related field required

Preferred Education:
-Master's Degree.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
- Dietitian/Nutritionist NYS.

Skills:
Required Skills & Experience:
-Two (2) - four (4) years of experience.
-Computer Literacy-beginner.

Duties:
Job Summary:
Provides comprehensive nutrition care to patients of all ages. Assesses nutrition needs, develops, implements/revaluates care plans for patients of all ages. Educates patients and family members. Communicates patient issues to the health care team.

Job Responsibilities:
--Nutritional Care:
-Provides comprehensive nutrition care to assigned patients by assessing nutrition needs, developing, implementing, and reevaluating nutrition care plans.
--Performance Expectations:
-Performs initial screening of patients on assigned units and determines patient nutrition risk level classification (e.g. low, moderate or high, risk) according to established nutrition care policy.
-Completes comprehensive nutrition assessment of patients on assigned units who are at high nutrition risk, or at moderate risk within 24-48 hours of admission, and evaluates nutrition requirements on assigned units according to establish nutrition care policy.
-Completes nutrition assessment of patients on assigned units who are at low nutrition risk within 6 days of admission according to established nutrition care policy.
-Approves diet orders written in the physician's order book for diet order changes and initiation and advancement of enteral feedings according to established policy.
-Calculate patient nutrition requirements using standardized formulas (i.e., determine estimated calorie, fluid, protein requirements).
-Develops nutrition care plan for patients as assigned.
-Recommends to physicians, diet and/or diet changes and appropriate enteral formulas and nutrition supplements when needed to meet patients' calorie-protein requirements.
-Recommend nutrition support consultation when patients are unable to meet nutrition needs through p.o. intake.
-Monitors changes in patient's nutrition status and evaluate ongoing appropriateness of diet prescription through meal rounds, calorie counts.
-Arranges for outpatient/home care services and special (e.g. enteral formulas/nutrition supplements as needed), prior to patient discharge.
-Refer patients to social services as needed prior to discharge.
--Patient/Family Education:
-Provides information to patients, family, and caregivers on recommended diets and nutrition topics.
--Performance Expectations:
-Provides inservice education on nutrition related topics such as new enteral nutrition formulary, therapeutic diets and relevant policies and procedures, for health care team members on assigned units as needed.
-Prepares relevant outline of inservice, related handouts prior to inservice and submits these along with list of attendees to Manager of Clinical Nutrition and Patient Services upon completion of inservice.
-Precepts dietetic internship students in clinical rotation as assigned; explains and demonstrates required clinical practice; assesses student performance and provides feedback; reports student progress to Supervisor.
-Counsels inpatients, outpatients, families or other caregivers on prescribed diets based on the patient's learning needs assessment and inconsideration of the patient's cultural, religious and ethnic food preferences. Evaluates patients' comprehension and anticipated adherence to diet and documents in the medical record.

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Preferred Skills & Experience:
-N/A

Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
-N/A

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Company Description

Founded in 2002 by three former Monster.com executives; TalentBurst is an award-winning full-service Staffing Firm working directly with Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada. We specialize in Contract and Contract to Permanent roles across many industries and have direct/contractual relationships with all our clients. Please visit our website or come meet us at our offices in Natick, MA, Miami, FL, Christiansburg, VA, Vineland, NJ, Houston, TX & downtown San Francisco, CA