Clinical Registered Dietitian: Nutrition Care & Education

Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior; Bakersfield (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Adventist Health Bakersfield is seeking a Registered Dietitian to provide comprehensive nutritional care to patients identified with nutritional risk, assess and reassess nutritional needs, educate patients and families, and document interventions in accordance with policy and acceptable practice standards.

Acts as a competent clinician who provides clinical care in a skilled and effective manner, utilizing appropriate technical and decision-making skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in food and nutrition or equivalent: Required
• Master's Degree: Required, only if eligibility for examination began on or after 1/1/24
• Experience as a Clinical Dietitian: Preferred
• Dietetic internship or its equivalent: Required

Responsibilities

• Performs assessment of patients to determine those at nutritional risk. Provides quality nutritional care through utilization of nutrition plans; facilitating appropriate meal patterns, monitoring nutritional intake, initiating appropriate interventions, and providing nutritional education.
• Responsible for the comprehensive initial nutritional assessment and ongoing reassessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability and determination of nutritional diagnosis. Responsible for the nutritional evaluation of the patient's response to effectiveness of the implementation of the plan of care.
• Sets patient care priorities appropriately. Assigns personnel to patient care activities for effective utilization of skills and abilities within their job description, scope of practice and level of competency. Responsible for medical nutrition therapy administration in a safe and accurate manner, monitoring, documenting, including patient response.
• Acts as an educational resource for health care team personnel including dietetic interns, patients, family members and community. Orients/instructs new professional, registered and assistive and ancillary personnel on job duties, assignments and clinical activities of the unit. Provides learning opportunities to meet the nutrition education needs of patients/family/significant others.
• Responsible for direct date collection and data assessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability. Supervises indirect data collection of assigned personnel.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Nutritional assessment

Patient education

Interdisciplinary communication

Clinical decision-making

Education

Bachelor's Degree in food and nutrition

Master's Degree (eligibility rule)

Dietetic internship or equivalent

Job description

Adventist Health Bakersfield is seeking a Registered Dietitian to provide comprehensive nutritional care to patients identified with nutritional risk, assess and reassess nutritional needs, educate patients and families, and document interventions in accordance with policy and acceptable practice standards.

Acts as a competent clinician who provides clinical care in a skilled and effective manner, utilizing appropriate technical and decision-making skills.