Registered Dietitian Oncology - Sun City, United States - Banner Health

Banner Health

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Sun City, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Primary City/State:

Sun City, Arizona

Department Name:

Admin-Clinic

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

Banner Health is honored to be recognized by Becker's Healthcare as one of the TOP 150 places to work in health care for 2023 In addition, we recently made Newsweek's list of America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Diversity.

These recognitions reflect Banner Health's investment in team members' professional development, wellness benefits, and continued education. It highlights our commitment to advocating for diversity in the workplace, promoting work-life balance, and boosting employee engagement.

As the Registered Dietitian for our MD Anderson Outpatient Oncology team at Banner Boswell you will provide nutrition services and education to patients as you interact closely with our medical providers, our administration, our nursing staff, our therapy teams, and our culinary department.

This patient population has higher acuity levels and will follow patients receiving enteral nutrition support. Experience with Nutrition Support (Tube Feeding and TPN) and excellent time management skills needed.

Monday - Friday between 8am-5pm. No weekends or Holidays.

Banner Health's premier West Valley Level I Trauma for adults and Tertiary Care destination for all ages.

Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (BTMC) and Banner Children's Hospital at Thunderbird provide a preferred destination for surgical, oncological, cardiovascular, neuroscience, orthopedic, pediatric, and women and infant services achieved through best-in-class 5-star CMS rating to provide patients with high quality, safe care for the best possible experience.

Our campus is one of the largest campuses in the Banner network with over 3000 employees. BTMC was voted Best of the Best in 2023 by Banner Health out of 30 hospitals. This is the most prestigious award one of our largest hospitals can receive for consistently meeting our annual targets.

If you would like to contribute to truly leading edge caring, we invite you to bring your experience and skills to Banner Thunderbird.

This position manages a complex caseload of patients by providing comprehensive nutritional assessments and nutrition-focused physical exams, developing and managing all aspects of appropriate nutrition care plans and monitoring outcomes of plans.

Provides patient and family nutrition counseling and education. Develops Nutrition Standards of Practice and Education material in collaboration with peers.

Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary Health Care team providing input into patient care policies, programs, quality improvement activities and provides in-service education in areas of expertise.

CORE FUNCTIONS

Provides comprehensive nutrition assessment of patients' nutritional needs, to include nutrition-focused physical exams as appropriate. Obtains timely and appropriate data and analyzes/interprets data based on evidence-based standards and established practice guidelines.
Demonstrates and maintains competency in enteral and parenteral clinical practice protocols and oral nutrition management standard of practice as demonstrated by successful completion of initial competency exams and ongoing evaluation.
Writes orders to initiate and manage the nutrition care and of all assigned patients including those receiving nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) per protocols.
Evaluates effectiveness of the care plan and communicates effectively to the other members of the healthcare team to provide optimal nutrition outcomes. Provides pertinent information in the medical records, patient plans of care and/or clinical pathways while meeting requirements of regulatory agencies (i.e. Joint Commission, CMS, State and Local Agencies).
Provides nutrition education to patients, families, staff and other health care team professionals through the development of effective teaching materials and in-service programs; Evaluates patient and/or family response to education.
Provides leadership in area of coverage, monitors proper patient care procedures and acts as liaison with nursing areas. May participate in process improvement teams. Serves as mentor to new staff and interns where assigned.
Participates in continuous quality improvement activities in clinical areas to ensure optimal nutrition care outcomes are achieved. May participate in outcome studies as needed.

In some roles, this position may manage assigned staff:
recruits, selects, trains, evaluates, manages performance.

This position interacts with patients, families, health care providers and nutrition and dietary staff in support of providing high quality nutrition assessment, care planning, delivery and measurement of outcomes. Position communicates effectively and provides education to ensure optimum nutritional care. Position works independently and provides guidance to nutrition services staff in the developme