Registered Dietitian PRN - Fairfax, United States - Inova Health System

Description

Inova Well is seeking Registered Dietitian supporting our a la carte nutrition services team. This position PRN working a few hours/days weekly as well as opportunity for weekend corporate events and seminars.

Inova PRN Benefits and Perks:

• Access to Inova Well
• State-of-the-art medical and training facilities
• Retirement benefits with match from day one
• Free Parking to all employees
• Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more

Requirements for consideration:

• Newly certified Registered Dietitians must hold a master's degree.
• Dietetic internship or equivalent
• Registered Dietitian (RD)
• Basic Life Support through AHA within 3 months of hire
• Preferred: License from a surrounding state
• Experience as a wellness coach highly preferred but not required.

Job Responsibilities:

• The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
• Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
• Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
• Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.