Travel RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist - $2,412 per week

Access Healthcare; Detroit (MI); Vor Ort; USD 55.000 - 83.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Tax-free stipend

Travel assignment support

Zusammenfassung

Access Healthcare is seeking a travel RDN for a 26-week assignment in Detroit, Michigan. The role involves providing patient nutritional care, care planning, education, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team; 40 hours per week, days shift, 8 hours per day, 8:00am–4:30pm or 9:00am–5:30pm.

The assignment emphasizes nutrition assessment, plan implementation, education for patients and families, and coordination with medical staff to optimize outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Interviews patients to obtain information on food habits and preferences.
• Assesses nutritional needs and develops care plans by age.
• Delivers nutrition education to patients, families and staff.

Aufgaben

• Interviews patients to obtain information on food habits and cultural preferences.
• Assesses nutritional status and determines care requirements by age.
• Provides nutrition education to patients, families and staff.
• Develops and coordinates nutrition intervention plans.
• Documents interventions and plans in the medical record.
• Collaborates with medical staff to meet nutritional needs.

Kenntnisse

RDN

Patient education

Care planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Cultural competence

Ausbildung

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description & Requirements

Access Healthcare is seeking a travel RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for a travel job in Detroit, Michigan.

• Specialty: RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Duration: 26 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

8 hours/day (8am-4:30pm or 9am-5:30pm)3-4 days/week (Mon/Tuesday/Thurs/Friday) Provides appropriate patient nutritional care. Assesses the nutritional status of patients, formulates a care plan, coordinates its implementation, and evaluates its impact and effectiveness. Provides nutrition education to patients/families/staff Further details, if needed

• 1. Interviews patients to obtain information regarding food habits and cultural food preferences.
• 2. Applies the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses, as appropriate, and interprets data, determines patient care requirements and delivers care relative to the patients’ age specific needs.
• 3. Reviews information from interdisciplinary screening mechanism to prioritize high risk patients according to policy.
• 4. Provides education/nutrition counseling for diet modifications and food-drug interactions to patient, family and caretaker based on need, learning preference and readiness, cultural, ethnic and personal food preferences.
• 5. Accurately assesses patient’s nutritional status and determines appropriate nutritional diagnosis based on approved assessment policy.
• 6. Assures that assessments are completed in a timely manner.
• 7. Establishes nutrition intervention plans that are measurable and appropriate to the assessment.
• 8. Provides follow-up (reassessment) to see if recommendations are implemented and effective or suggests changes to the plan of nutritional care.
• 9. Documents all interventions, assessments, education and care plans in the medical record according to approved content and format.
• 10. Addresses discrepancies in diet orders if not ordered within the guideline of the diet manual.
• 11. Contacts physician with any questions or irregularities regarding nutritional care; shows no hesitancy in making contact.
• 12. Makes rounds to nursing units to check for any problems, inconsistencies, or patients who are at potential nutritional risk.
• 13. Assists in the development of monitoring of clinical performance indicators for the department.
• 14. Evaluates patient tolerance to therapeutic diets when appropriate.
• 15. Collaborates with other hospital services such as medical staff, nursing services, pharmacy service, social services, etc. to plan and implement patient care as necessary in meeting the nutritional needs of the patients. Maintains pertinent patient data necessary to recommend or modify therapeutic diets as needed meet the nutritional needs of the patients.
• 16. Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Access Healthcare Job ID #5-PHS-8404. Pay package is based on 8 hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

About Access Healthcare

Access Healthcare aims to provide superior service to our nursing family by providing around the clock support, competitive pay packages and an unmatched benefits package! Unlike other agencies, we offer a true family feel and work with you to find the placement that is right for you. We offer one of the top leading pay packages in the industry and we are ready to get you the money you deserve!

Access Healthcare was founded by two travel nurses, Danielle and Diego, who had a dream and a shared vision of creating an agency which all nurses would want to work with. Our passion has led us to where we are today as one of the top 10 agencies in our home state of New Jersey, with access to contracts in all 50 states! We encourage you to join our team and we cannot wait to get to know you!