Clinical Dietitian – Inpatient

The University of Kansas Health System; North Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Kansas Health System in North Kansas City, MO is seeking a Clinical Dietitian to join the interdisciplinary patient care team. You will assess nutritional needs, design individualized care plans, and monitor progress with physicians and other clinicians.

The successful candidate will hold RD credentials or be eligible, meet Kansas licensure requirements, and provide education to patients and families while precepting students.

Qualifications

• RD credentialed or eligible for credentialing after 2024.
• Kansas licensure (KDADS) upon hire.
• Bachelor's or higher in Nutrition or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical thinking and teamwork with the care team.
• Performs nutrition screening, assessment, care plan development, and follow-up monitoring.
• Coordinates nutrition care with physicians and other disciplines; tracks progress and communicates variances.
• Acts as a nutrition resource/advocate for patients and families.
• Instructs and counsels patients and families on nutritional care; educates and evaluates teaching effectiveness.
• Serves as a student preceptor and supports staff education.
• Maintains expertise and contributes to quality improvement and community education as needed.

Skills

Critical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Nutrition assessment

Education

Master's degree in Nutrition or Dietetics

Bachelor's degree in Nutrition or related field

High school diploma

Job description

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Clinical Dietitian works as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team. They perform an individualized assessment and design a customized plan to address the patients' nutritional care needs. They periodically review the patient's status to ensure that the nutritional care goals are being met and/or make changes to the intervention plan.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.


• Performs key functions of nutrition care according to department standards and procedures, including screening for nutrition risk, nutrition assessment, development of care plan, and follow-up monitoring/reassessment of patients identified to be at nutrition risk.


• Collaborates with physicians and other members of the health care team to implement nutrition care, coordinates care in conjunction with other disciplines, assesses progress of patients towards desired outcomes, records variances, and communicates with health care team when outcomes are not met.


• Acts as a nutrition resource/advocate to others for specific patients/families.


• Participates in team management rounds and care conferences of patients, and reports and responds to resulting requests for nutritional services.


• Instructs/counsels patients/families in nutritional care, understands/applies basic learning principles to both children and adults, is aware of available resources, utilizes available resources, and evaluates effectiveness of own teaching.


• Serves as student preceptor.


• Maintains and upgrades own level of nutritional care expertise while serving as a nutrition expert to staff, clients, students and community.


• Provides smooth, efficient, courteous flow of nutritional care information to Clinical Nutrition staff, managers and others health providers as needed.


• Actively participates in staff meetings, ad hoc meetings, and as a resource to others.


• Applies current research findings in practice by implementing evidenced based practice.


• Participates in department quality improvement activities and data collection as requested


• Participates in community education activities and/or outreach programs as needed.


• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.


• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Master's Degree in Nutrition or Dietetics (required for RDs credentialed after 1/1/2024.) from an accredited college or university.


• Bachelors Degree in Nutrition or related field from an accredited college or university.


• High School Graduate

Required Licensure and Certification

• Registered Dietitian (RD) - Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) Bachelor's degree required for RDs credentialed prior to 1/1/2024. upon Hire


• Licensed Dietitian - Health Occupations Credentialing - Kansas (KDADS) upon Hire

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.