Registered Dietitian PRN — Clinical Nutrition Impact

Inova Health; Alexandria (VA); Sur place; USD 75 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

State-of-the-art medical and training

Retirement benefits with match fromDay

Free Parking

Exclusive savings opportunities

Résumé du poste

Inova Alexandria Hospital is seeking a dedicated Registered Dietitian for a PRN role with the potential to cover patients at all Inova Hospitals, up to 40 hours per week as needed. Hours are 8:00 am–4:30 pm, Monday–Friday, with one Saturday per month.

The Dietitian provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care, collaborates with physicians and nurses, conducts comprehensive assessments, and develops individualized plans to achieve best practice and optimal patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• RD required within 3 months of hire
• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association required within 3 months of hire

Responsabilités

• The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
• Provides clinical services and acts as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
• Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
• Formsulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Formation

Bachelor’s degree minimum if licensed before 1/1/2024

Master’s degree for Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024

Description du poste

Inova Alexandria Hospital is seeking a dedicated Registered Dietitian for a PRN role with the potential to cover patients at all Inova Hospitals, up to 40 hours per week as needed. Hours are 8:00 am–4:30 pm, Monday–Friday, with one Saturday per month.

The Dietitian provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care, collaborates with physicians and nurses, conducts comprehensive assessments, and develops individualized plans to achieve best practice and optimal patient outcomes.