Dietitian- Medical Nutrition Specialist

Lincare; Blue Springs (MO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincare is seeking a dedicated clinician to oversee enteral nutrition care for home-based patients. This role involves comprehensive patient assessments, planning, and coordination of care with physicians and caregivers to ensure safe, effective nutrition support.

The position includes educating patients and families on feeding methods, maintaining confidentiality, and participating in ongoing training to uphold high-quality home care standards.

Responsibilities

• Recognize and respect patient rights during care or services and in business relationships with patients and the public in an ethical way
• Perform assessments and reassessments of each patient's care needs including physical, psychosocial, functional, and activity assessments as appropriate
• Formulate, revise, and maintain enteral nutrition patient care plans based on physician orders and assessment findings, identifying patient problems, goals, actions, and interventions
• Monitor patient responses to care or services and the outcomes of care or interventions
• Educate patients about enteral feeding to ensure safe and effective use and desired care outcomes
• Provide continuous, coordinated patient care in settings appropriate to meet patient needs
• Educate communities about all aspects of medical nutrition services offered by the company
• Maintain a minimum monthly patient census and admissions
• Promote safe environments and proper use of feeding equipment for patients and organizational settings
• Participate in ongoing education, in-services, and training to maintain and improve competence
• Obtain, securely utilize, and update patient information for care applications while maintaining confidentiality
• Recognize and implement infection control practices to reduce infection risk for patients and staff
• Travel to admit, deliver, and pick up enteral formula, feeding pumps, IV poles, and related supplies to patients’ homes or places of business
• Record delivery information and track mileage
• Listen to and resolve service complaints within the scope of practice
• Assist the sales team with clinical presentations
• Obtain customer signatures on admissions, pickups, or deliveries
• Communicate with patients across age ranges (infants to seniors) as needed
• Be responsible for National On-Call duties, not exceeding 6 shifts per year

Job description

This employee is responsible for all aspects of enteral nutrition care for the home tube fed patient and other medical nutrition related activities.

Job Responsibilities

• Recognize and respect patient rights during the provision of care or services and conducting business relationships with patient and the public in an ethical manner
• Perform assessments/reassessments of each patient's care or service needs throughout the patient's contact with the organization including physical assessments, psychosocial assessments, functional assessments, and activity assessments as appropriate
• Formulate, revise, and maintain enteral nutrition patient care plans based on physician orders and assessment findings including the identification of patient problems/needs, goals and actions, and interventions relating to the care or service provided
• Monitor patient's response to the care or services provided, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided
• Educate patients with relation to their enteral feeding to facilitate safe and effective use, as well as desired care, treatment, and service outcomes
• Provide patient care, treatment, and service in a continuous and coordinated manner, in settings appropriate to meet patient needs
• Responsible for community education regarding all aspects of medical nutrition services provided by company
• Maintaining and managing a minimum monthly patient admits/census
• Promote safe and effective patient and organizational environments and feeding equipment use
• Participate in on-going education including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve individual competence
• Obtain, utilize, and update patient information in a confidential and secure manner for utilization in patient care applications
• Recognize and implement infection control practices that reduce the risk of infections in patients and organizational staff
• Drives to admit, deliver, and pick up such items as enteral formula, feeding pump(s), IV poles, related feeding supplies to patients' home or place of business
• Records delivery information and tracks mileage
• Listens to and resolves service complaints appropriate to scope of practice
• Assists sales team in clinical presentations
• Issues or obtains customer signature on admission, pickup, or delivery
• May have to communicate, interact, assess, and/or treat Secure Health Systems' patients/family members that may be:
  • Infants (0 - 1 years of age)
  • Pediatrics (1 - 17 years of age)
  • Adults (18 - 64 years of age)
  • Seniors (65 years or greater)
• Responsible for National On-Call
  • not to exceed 6 shifts per year