Clinical Dietitian, PRN, Various Shifts @ SUM

The following information is designed to outline the functions and position requirements of this job. It does not identify all tasks that may be expected, nor address the performance standards that must be maintained.

General Position Summary

Responsible for ensuring that hospitalized patients receive optimal nutritional care.

Essential Functions / Major Responsibilities

• Assess patients' nutritional status by reviewing charts and interviewing patients.
• Develop nutritional plan-of-care for nutritionally compromised patients.
• Communicate with physicians and other healthcare team members about the specific nutritional needs of the patients.
• Input nutrition assessments/re-assessments into the electronic medical record.
• Provide nutrition education to patients and family members.
• Change nutrition plans based upon changes to patients' nutritional status and desired outcomes.
• Evaluate nutritional needs for patients requiring total parenteral or enteral nutrition; make appropriate recommendations to physicians.
• Review daily hospital census and develop daily work schedule
• Copy and file nutrition paperwork.
• Displays proper etiquette and mannerisms that reflect the Shine Standard Behavior Guidelines.
• Promotes the Patient Safety Standards as a core value of the organization.

Secondary Functions

• Manage administrative functions of the Nutritional Services Department in the absence of the Director.
• Edit and correct patient menus to ensure the patient receives the correct foods per the physician's diet order.
• Participates in departmental and hospitalwide informational meetings and inservices, including staff meetings, hospitalwide forums, and seminars.
• Reviews department and hospitalwide policies and procedures annually.
• All other duties as assigned.

Additional / Seasonal Responsibilities

• Manages an increased amount of patient contacts and nutritional interventions during times of increased community illness or seasonal injury (including RSV, elderly COPD, etc)

Job Scope

This job involves

• Recurring work situations with occasional variations from the norm.
• A high level of complexity.
• Typical operation from established and well-known procedures.
• Performance of duties under independently-minimal supervision.

Professional Responsibility

• Perform supervisory duties of the Director of Nutritional Services as assigned in the director's absence.
• Decisions are made within prescribed operating guidelines.
• Informally makes recommendations concerning long-range operational planning
• Informally makes recommendations concerning long-range strategic planning.

Interpersonal Contacts

Contacts

• Are normally made with others both inside and outside the hospital.
• Are made with own department, staff, and supervisor as well as other departments and locations.
• Frequently contain confidential/sensitive information necessitating discretion at all times.
• Include face-to-face, telephone, and e-mail contact.
• Include contact with staff, patients, and physicians.

Specific Job Skills & Mental Activities

This position requires effective application of clinical nutrition skills as they relate to various disease conditions. This position also requires knowledge of general office equipment (including telephone system, fax machine, and copy machine) and the Hospital Information Systems. This position also requires good computer, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and interpersonal skills. This position requires self-direction and self-motivation. Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Education and/or Experience

• High School diploma or equivalent (required).
• Bachelor degree in Dietetics (required).
• Computer experience (required).
• National Certification by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (required).
• Commission on Dietetic Registration CEUs (75 CEUs per every five years) (required).

Physical Demands & Job Conditions

Exerts up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Worker is exposed to extensive computer work.

Physical motions include finger dexterity, standing, walking, stooping, talking, reaching, feeling, sitting, bending, kneeling, climbing, grasping, listening/hearing, handling, lifting up to 10 pounds, and repetitive motions of the hands, wrists, and feet.

This is a safety sensitive position.

OSHA Exposure Category

Involves no regular exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues, and tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and are not a condition of employment.