Pay: $46/Hour
Duration: 5+ months
Job Summary:
Job Responsibilities:
Skills & Experience:
Education
Required Certifications & Licensure:
Duration: 5+ months
Job Summary:
- Fully competent, experienced Dietitian who can cover all patient care units including critical care (ICU and PICU).
- Provides comprehensive nutritional 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.
- Modifies diet orders and makes recommendations for enteral feeding modifications and nutrition supplements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides comprehensive nutrition care to assigned patients by assessing nutritional needs, developing, implementing, and re-evaluating nutritional care plans. Modifies diet orders.
- Provides coverage of all inpatient units. Outpatient: Attends and participates in multidisciplinary rounds for all designated clinics. Provides cross-coverage for other outpatient areas as assigned.
- Performs initial nutrition screening of patients and determines patient nutrition risk level classification (e.g. low, moderate or high risk) on assigned units according to established nutrition care policy. Outpatient: Responds to referring to clinician, patient, family or the care giver regarding nutrition related issues within 24 hours of notification.
- Completes comprehensive nutrition assessment of patients who are at high or moderate nutrition risk within twenty-four to forty-eight hours of admission. Using the Nutrition Care Process, determines nutrition diagnosis, evaluates nutrition requirements, and develops nutrition care according to established nutrition care plan. Outpatient: Completes comprehensive nutrition assessment of all patients seen on day of initial visit.
- Completes nutrition assessment of low nutrition risk patients on assigned patient units within seven days of admission according to established nutrition care policy.
- Calculate patient nutrition requirements using standardized formulas (i.e., determine estimated calorie, fluid, protein requirements).
- Initiates and recommend diet and/or diet changes and appropriate enteral formulas and nutrition supplements to the physician or nurse practitioner, when needed, to meet patients' calorie-protein requirements.
- Recommends nutrition support consultation when patient is unable to meet nutritional needs through p.o. intake.
- Monitors changes in patient's nutrition status and evaluates ongoing appropriateness of diet prescription through meal rounds, and calorie counts.
- Completes timely nutrition reassessments/follow ups according to patients' nutrition risk level and established nutrition care policy.
- Arranges for enteral feeding for outpatient/home care services as needed, prior to patient discharge. Outpatient: Coordinates the delivery of nutritional supplements to patient's home, obtains prior authorization number from Medicaid, submits a prescription for supplements and supplies appropriate documentation.
- Refers patients to other services such as GI Nutrition Services, Social Services, Speech Therapy, and Integrative medicine as needed prior to discharge.
Skills & Experience:
- 2 - 4 years of experience.
- Possesses familiarity with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Oncology experience is preferred
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics is required
- Master's Degree is preferred
Required Certifications & Licensure:
- Certified Dietitian Nutritionist within 12 months of employment (New York only. Not required for NJ positions).
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (Commission on Dietetic Registration).