Clinical Dietitian: Elevate Patient Nutrition & Care

Sweetwater Care; Fresno (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sweetwater Care in Fresno, California is seeking a clinical dietitian to lead nutrition assessments, create individualized medical nutrition therapy plans, and support patients in adopting effective dietary changes across inpatient and outpatient settings.

You will collaborate with physicians and the Nutrition Therapy team, educate patients and families, ensure evidence-based practice, participate in quality improvement initiatives, and uphold food safety standards.

Qualifications

• Understanding of and aptitude for applying all elements of the nutrition care procedure.
• Comprehensive understanding of and application of medical nutrition therapy and nutrition services.
• Skills in teamwork, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Ability to successfully communicate in writing and verbally with patients, the public, hospital employees, and doctors
• The capacity to work autonomously in designated patient care units.
• The capacity to advise and instruct others.
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and nutrient analysis in general.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients in adopting long-lasting lifestyle changes, teaching them about dietary recommendations and healthy eating practices.
• Recommend medical professionals certain diets for patients with certain diseases or problems.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to make sure that patients receive all the treatments they require to enhance their health.
• Speak with doctors to determine the best line of action for their patient’s specific needs.
• Make meal arrangements for people receiving treatment for a condition or illness.
• Research fresh developments in the nutrition or dietetics fields.
• Collaborate with a doctor or other medical expert to create a nutrition strategy that addresses a patient’s unique needs.
• Examine patients to ascertain their nutritional needs and health status.
• Advise patients to adjust their diets in light of their findings.
• Implement the proper feeding method, diet, or nutrition support (enteral, parenteral), and observe how patients respond to their daily nutrient intake.
• Teach patients and their families about dietary requirements and/or nutritional needs.
• Participate in departmental and transdisciplinary quality improvement initiatives and help to design them.
• Assume control over a range of inpatient and outpatient units.
• Make rounds to ensure patient satisfaction.
• Conduct nutrition assessments and give clients and their families nutrition education by standards of service.
• Improve nutritional status, formula formulations were calculated and personalized nutrition prescriptions were created.
• Act as a resource on nutrition for clients/patients, medical professionals, and the community in addition to taking part in the instruction of nutrition students.
• Take part in media events that focus on nutrition and well-being.
• Attend professional conferences and took part in department/organizational committees dedicated to raising client/patient care standards.
• Create and execute a treatment plan for medical nutrition therapy.
• Document rules for clinical practice, policy, and procedure.
• Evaluate, rank, and prioritises consultations for medical nutrition therapy.
• Completes nutritional assessments and pinpoints nutrition issues or diagnoses.
• Evaluate nutritional status by identifying and integrating trends in anthropometric indices, biochemical data, implications of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and physical results with a nutrition focus.
• Carry out care plan implementation and collaborates with food service personnel to ensure adherence and maintenance of nutrition care plan.
• Participate actively in both the Nutrition Therapy team and the clinical multidisciplinary team.
• Specify objectives and offer patients, their families, and caregivers nutrition guidance and education that is age and culture-specific.
• Use suitable instructional techniques and materials, as well as evidence-based dietary practice recommendations.
• Record patient’s medical file and their understanding of and expected adherence to dietary recommendations in quantifiable terms. completes the in-patient Ad Hoc charting.
• Show how to monitor performance and enhance quality.
• Carry out additional job duties when assigned or prompted.

Skills

Nutrition care procedures

Medical nutrition therapy

Teamwork

Problem solving

Decision making

Written and verbal communication

Autonomy in patient care

Instructing others

Word processing & data analysis

Job description

Sweetwater Care in Fresno, California is seeking a clinical dietitian to lead nutrition assessments, create individualized medical nutrition therapy plans, and support patients in adopting effective dietary changes across inpatient and outpatient settings.

You will collaborate with physicians and the Nutrition Therapy team, educate patients and families, ensure evidence-based practice, participate in quality improvement initiatives, and uphold food safety standards.