Clinical Dietitian - Cottonwood, AZ

The Clinical Dietitian works with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to ensure optimum care for both inpatients and outpatients by completing medical nutrition therapy assessments, instructions and care plans.

Requirements

• Screens both inpatients and outpatients for nutritional risk using established protocols and per policy.
• Maintains adequate patient case load with appropriate prioritization of patient consultations.
• Participates in patient rounding.
• Provides medical nutrition therapy, education and resources to both the hospital staff and community.
• Interacts with the Patient Room Service Team regarding patients' meal plans, allergies, meal intake, special food requests, snacks and other food needs.
• Documents and records timely and appropriately in electronic medical record on patients.
• Documents according to established guidelines/protocols/critical pathways and maintains updated records of inpatients.
• Keeps thorough and accurate records on outpatients and sends completed report to physicians.
• Provides medical nutrition therapy, education and resources to both the hospital staff and community.
• Provides nutritional instruction and consultations that is age and disease specific for a variety of individuals and/or families that will meet their needs and personal preferences.
• Interacts with physicians and other medical personnel as part of the patient care team.
• Focuses on personal development areas, engaging in professional/collegial interactions with peers and students.
• Works collaboratively with peers and other health care providers by participating in on-going in-services and educational seminars.
• Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool;
• Attends all safety-related training programs;
• Performs work in a safe manner;
• Monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.
• If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.
• Accurately completes all manual and electronic forms.
• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensures registration is up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.