Registered Dietitian - Part-time

Grant Regional Health Center; Lancaster (WI); On-site; USD 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

Grant Regional Health Center in Lancaster, Wisconsin, seeks a part-time Registered Dietitian to educate inpatients and cardiac rehabilitation patients. Preference for diabetes education interest and collaboration with the diabetes education team.

The role requires completing nutrition education, screenings, and care plans, with documentation in the EMR, and teamwork with nursing, pharmacy, and therapy staff to meet patients' nutritional needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics required; Master’s preferred.
• Credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered Dietitian.
• Certified to practice in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Dietitian license).
• Basic computer proficiency (Microsoft Office).
• Must work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provides nutrition education to hospital inpatients, family members, and cardiac rehabilitation participants.
• Performs nutritional screenings and assessments for varied age groups and cultural needs.
• Develops nutrition care plans for patients at higher nutritional risk.
• Documents assessments, consultations, interventions and follow-ups in the EMR.
• Adapts education for pediatric to geriatric patients and family involvement.
• Creates teaching plans based on learning needs and evaluates effectiveness.
• Responsible for calculating and prescribing tube feeding and parenteral nutrition orders.
• Provides time-sensitive patient care as needed.
• Collaborates with nursing, pharmacy, OT/PT, social services and families to plan care.
• Maintains and updates patient nutrition data and therapeutic diets as needed.
• Oversees selection of supplements and formulas and orders as needed.
• Serves as a nutrition resource for hospital staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Nutrition education

Dietary assessment

Care planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Nutrition and Dietetics

CDR-Registered Dietitian credential

Wisconsin Dietitian license

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Diabetic Management Part Time Dietary Lancaster, WI, US 1 Attachments

DEPARTMENT: Diabetic Management

POSITION STATUS/HOURS: Part-time position .2 FTE (16 hours/pay period).

This position schedule is two shifts/pay period from

8:00am-4:30 pm Monday-Friday.

JOB SUMMARY

The Registered Dietitian is responsible for nutrition education of Grant Regional Health Center’s inpatients and cardiac rehabilitation patients. *Preference for a candidate with interest in learning more about diabetes education and to assist the diabetes education care and education specialist if availability permits.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides nutrition education as ordered or needed to hospital in-patients, family members, and to cardiac rehabilitation participants.
• Performs nutritional screenings and assessments on hospital in-patients taking into consideration the varied needs of age-specific populations as well as cultural, religious and ethnic concerns.
• Develops nutritional care plans for those hospital in-patients to be determined to be at higher nutritional risk.
• Accurately documents all patient assessments, consults, interventions and follow up visits as appropriate in the electronic medical record.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the differences in techniques and treatment modalities as performed on patients of varying ages, including pediatric, adolescent and geriatric patients, as well as the general patient population.
• Formulates teaching plans based on identified learning needs of each patient and evaluates effectiveness of learning. Patient’s family is included in teaching as appropriate.
• Responsible for calculating and prescribing tube feeding and parenteral nutrition orders.
• Provides immediate care to patients with time sensitive needs.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team (i.e. nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, utilization review, social services, the patient, family of patient, etc.) to plan and implement patient plan of care in meeting the nutritional needs of patients.
• Maintains pertinent patient data as necessary to recommend, prescribe or modify therapeutic diets as needed to meet the nutritional needs of each patient.
• Supervises general maintenance of the patients’ therapeutic diet orders. Keeps patient nutritional information up to date and communicates the need for therapeutic diet preparations to other staff as needed.
• Responsible for selection of appropriate and adequate supplements and formulas. Orders supplements from pharmacy or materials management if needed.
• Serve as a resource for medical, food service and other hospital staff.
• Other job duties and responsibilities as assigned to effectively meet the needs of the patients, the department, and the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a Registered Dietitian.
• Certified as a Dietitian to practice in the state of Wisconsin.
• Basic computer proficiency (Microsoft Office).
• Must be able to act and work independently as well as a member of a team.