Patient Nutrition Services Associate

Fairview Health Services; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Sick time

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement plan

Early access to earned wages

Job summary

Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN seeks a Nutrition Services Associate to coordinate diet orders, assist patients with meals and navigate nutrition software. This casual, part-time role interfaces with diet office, kitchen managers, and clinicians to boost communication and patient satisfaction.

The NSA supports enteral and oral nutrition orders, answers diet-related questions, adjusts menus per therapeutic guidelines, and helps ensure accurate nutrition services through data gathering

Qualifications

• 1 year of customer service experience.
• Enrolled in or completed health-related 2-year or 4-year degree program.
• 1 year of health-related patient services experience.
• Registered Dietetic Technician

Responsibilities

• Accurately fulfills enteral nutrition and oral nutrition supplement orders and delivers to units.
• Assists patients requiring additional support to order food and beverage items in alignment with the diet order.
• Adjusts menu requests to align with therapeutic diet guidelines and food allergies using the nutrition software.
• Supports patient and family members by gathering food preferences, answering questions about therapeutic diets, addressing service concerns and/or triaging to appropriate team members or managers as needed.
• Gathers data about calories and macronutrients consumed by patient if requested by clinical team.
• Demonstrates proficiency in knowledge of menu items, nutrition formulas and supplements, therapeutic diets, and use of the nutrition software.
• Communicates clinical concerns to the dietitians or other clinical team members.
• Unloads pallets of nutrition formulas and stocks nutrition formulary room supplies as needed.
• Identifies areas for process improvement to improve efficiency and accuracy of nutrition services and participates in process improvement as requested

Skills

Customer service

Education

Health-related degree program

Registered Dietetic Technician

Job description

Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN seeks a Nutrition Services Associate to coordinate diet orders, assist patients with meals and navigate nutrition software. This casual, part-time role interfaces with diet office, kitchen managers, and clinicians to boost communication and patient satisfaction.

The NSA supports enteral and oral nutrition orders, answers diet-related questions, adjusts menus per therapeutic guidelines, and helps ensure accurate nutrition services through data gathering