Sr Medical Nutrition Spec

This employee is responsible for the intake and admission coordination of enteral referrals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Staff the Enteral Case Management Dept for the intake of enteral referrals for all time zones
• Coordinate all information necessary to all regions for all Medical Nutrition Specialist to facilitate an admission to company
• Perform assessments/reassessments of each patient's care or service needs throughout the patient's contact with the organization, including physical assessments, psychosocial assessments, functional assessments, and activity assessments as appropriate
• Formulate, revise, and maintain enteral nutrition patient care plans based on physician orders and assessment findings, including the identification of patient problems/needs, goals, actions, and interventions relating to the care or service provided
• Monitor patient's response to the care or services provided, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided
• Monitor patient's response to the care or services provided by other dietitians, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided
• Precept newly hired Medical Nutrition Specialist to Enteral Case Management and act as a resource for other Medical Nutrition Specialist as assistance or coaching is needed
• Educate patients with relation to their enteral feeding to facilitate safe and effective use and desired care, treatment, and service outcomes
• Provide patient care, treatment, and service in a continuous and coordinated manner, in settings appropriate to meet patient needs
• Perform community education regarding all aspects of medical nutrition services provided by company
• Communicate activities with patients, providers, payers, and all customer groups
• Promote safe, effective patient and organizational environments and feeding equipment use
• Participate in ongoing education, including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve individual competence
• Obtain, utilize, and update patient information in a confidential and secure manner for utilization in patient care applications
• Recognize and implement infection control practices that reduce the risk of infections in patients and organizational staff
• Drive to admit, deliver, and pick up such items as enteral formula, feeding pump(s), IV poles, related feeding supplies to patient's home or place of business
• Listen to and resolve service complaints appropriate to scope of practice
• Set up merchandise and sales promotion display or issue sales promotion materials to customers
• May have to communicate, interact with, assess, or treat Secure Health Systems' patients/family members that may be:
  • Infants (0 - 1 years of age)
  • Pediatrics (1 - 17 years of age)
  • Adults (18 - 64 years of age)
  • Seniors (65 years or greater)
• Participate in ongoing, traditional learning and in-service programs
• Coach new employees when they take national on-call for the first time

Qualifications

• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Calculate figures and amounts such as commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
  • interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form