Clinical Dietitian - Kalamazoo, United States - Bronson Healthcare

Bronson Healthcare

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Kalamazoo, United States

5 days ago

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Mark Lane

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About the Role

The dietitian plays a crucial role within the multidisciplinary healthcare team, responsible for various tasks such as assessing nutrition needs, devising and executing nutrition care plans, and appropriately assessing and communicating results.

They stay abreast of relevant research in nutrition, ensuring that care is based on the latest evidence. Adhering to departmental policies and the healthcare team's objectives, the dietitian coordinates activities effectively.

Accountability is key for the dietitian, encompassing setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and fostering positive patient outcomes.

They engage not only with the healthcare team but also with families, employing a collaborative approach to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care that respects diversity and cultural nuances.

Furthermore, the dietitian takes an active role in patient, community, and staff education initiatives, whether in individual or group settings, contributing to the overall health and wellness of the community.

Those directly involved in patient care must exhibit competencies tailored to the specific population they serve.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Dietetics, Nutrition or verification statement from an ACEND (Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics) accredited program.
Completion of an ACEND accredited supervised practice program (Dietetic Internship Program, Individual Supervised Practice Pathway, Coordinated program, Future Graduates Program, and International Dietitian Education Program).
Additional education/experience may be required depending on specific department.
Credentialed as a Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) required within 1 year of hire.
Additional certification or progress toward certification completion may be required dependent on an individual's specific position.
Demonstrate a high degree of competency with computers, including the ability to use an Electronic Medical Record (training will be provided).
Proficient in Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

Utilizes nutrition screening criteria and reviews medical records of individual patients to identify patients with increased nutritional risk including inpatients on assigned units, patients with scheduled visits in assigned clinics, and patients scheduled for outpatient nutrition counseling.
Identifies ongoing risk for nutritional problems through regular review of anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; documentation of feeding skills; records of parenteral, enteral, and oral intake, diagnosis, or presence of chronic diseases or conditions associated with nutritional risk throughout patient's hospitalization and outpatient's course of treatment.
Documents nutritional assessment by evaluation and interpretation of nutritional intake data; physical, anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; normal, immature and dysfunctional and behavioral aspects of feedings skills; and clinical signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiency, inadequacy, excess or toxicity.
Establishes and documents the nutritional plan of care for individual patients by identifying nutritional problems and prescribing nutrition interventions that are age and disease specific, and incorporating these into the patients' overall plans of care.
Reviews medical record and observes patient for response to nutritional plan of care and for changes that indicate unresolved or presence of new nutrition problem(s) and adjusts nutritional aspects of the patient's plan of care accordingly.
Maintains knowledge of dietary guidelines and nutritional standards of care in health and disease and applies these guidelines to patient care and patient education.
Assesses patient/family teaching needs and develops and documents a teaching plan with patient focused outcomes identified.
Participates in developing and documenting a plan for discharge. Maintains knowledge of progression toward discharge and updates nutrition plan as necessary.
Documents plan for follow up with qualifying and/or quantifying statement (identifies what, when and where followup, if any, will occur).
Provides phone followup when indicated and assists in the continuity of care with primary care providers and dietitians providing followup care.
Reviews medical records of individual patients to collect and analyze nutrition related data for Process Improvement and/or Complian