Inpatient Clinical Dietitian

Bronson Methodist Hospital; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, MI is seeking an Inpatient Clinical Dietitian to join its multidisciplinary care team. The role centers on assessing nutrition needs, developing care plans, and applying evidence-based guidelines to improve patient outcomes.

You will interact with patients, families, and staff to deliver patient-centered nutrition care, participate in discharge planning, and provide education on nutrition and wellness within diverse populations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or Nutrition required; master’s preferred for RD pathway.
• ACEND-accredited supervised practice program completed or in progress.
• RD/CDR credential required within 6 months of hire.
• Strong knowledge of nutrition care plans and patient education.

Responsibilities

• Assess nutrition needs and develop patient-centered care plans.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary healthcare team to implement nutrition care.
• Utilize evidence-based guidelines to support patient outcomes.
• Educate patients, caregivers, and families on nutrition plans and follow-up.
• Document nutrition assessments and plan progress; adjust as needed.
• Support discharge planning and post-discharge follow-up as indicated.

Skills

Nutrition assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Evidence-based care

Patient education

Education

Bachelor's degree in Dietetics or Nutrition

Master's degree if becoming RD in 2024

ACEND-accredited supervised practice program

Registered Dietitian or RD by CDR within 6 months

Job description

Love Where You Work!

Team Bronson is compassionate, resilient and strong. We are driven by Positivity which inspires us to be our best and to go above and beyond for our patients, for one another, and for our community.

If you're ready for a rewarding new career, join Team Bronson and be part of the experience.

Location

Kalamazoo-601 John St.-Bronson Methodist Hospital South Campus (South Pavilion)

Title

Inpatient Clinical Dietitian

The clinical dietitian serves as a member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and provides patient-centered care. The dietitian assesses nutrition needs; develops and implements nutrition care plans; evaluates and reports the results appropriately; interprets, evaluates, and utilizes pertinent and current research related to nutrition care; and coordinates activities according to department policies and procedures and the goals for the healthcare team. The dietitian is accountable for setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and promoting the achievement of positive patient outcomes. In addition to working with the healthcare team, the dietitian will also interact with patients, caregivers, and families.

Utilizing a team-based approach, the dietitian provides highly proficient care, utilizing evidence-based guidelines, which is patient-centered and supportive of diversity and cultural factors. The dietitian is responsible for patient, community, and staff education programs (individual or group) as needed and is an active participant in improving the health and well-being of the community. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate skills and competencies specific to the population served.

Qualifications

• Possess a bachelor's degree in Dietetics or Nutrition.
• Possess a master's degree if becoming a Registered Dietitian in 2024 and thereafter (RDs who graduated prior to 2024 are not required to possess a graduate degree).
• Completion of a supervised practice program (Dietetic Internship Program, Individual Supervised Practice Pathway, Coordinated Program, Future Graduates Program, and International Dietitian Education Program) accredited by Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).
• Must be credentialed as a Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) within 6 months of hire.
• Additional certification or progress toward certification completion, education, and experience may be required depending on the specific department and position (i.e., Diabetes Education requires applicants to obtain CDCES credentials and complete insulin pump training and certifications).

Clinical Skills

• Utilizes nutrition screening criteria and reviews medical records of individual patients to identify patients with increased nutritional risk including in-patients 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-anguand and disease-specific and incorporates 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.
• Assess 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 or discontinuation of care. Maintains knowledge of progression toward discharge and updates nutrition plan as necessary.
• Documents plan for follow up with qualifying or quantifying statements (identifies what, when and where follow-up, if any, will occur).
• Provides phone follow-up when indicated and assists in the continuity of care