Dietitian Registered PRN
Company: Inova Health System
Location: Leesburg
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
Inova Loudoun Hospital is seeking a self-motivated,
compassionate, and dedicated Clinical Registered Dietitian to
provide nutrition support, counseling, and education to our
inpatient population.
This PRN (as needed) position anticipates an average of 1-2
weekdays each week, 1 Saturday per month, rotating holidays, and
intermittent staff relief at Inova Loudoun Hospital. If more hours
are desired, there is opportunity to work at other Inova Hospitals.
Hours of operation are 7am to 5pm.
See Full List of Benefits Here:
Requirements for consideration:
- Master's degree
- Newly certified Registered Dietitians must hold a master's
degree.
- Dietetic internship or equivalent
- Registered Dietitian (RD)
- Basic Life Support through AHA within 3 months of hire
Job Responsibilities:
- The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic
nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
- Provides clinical services and act 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.
- Formulates 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.
Keywords: Inova Health System, Leesburg , Dietitian Registered PRN, Healthcare , Leesburg, Virginia
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