Kindred Hospital Arlington is a long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital specializing in the treatment of patients recovering from post-intensive care and medically complex conditions. Our hospital provides both intensive care and telemetry-level services, offering advanced monitoring and support for patients requiring extended medical care. With a multidisciplinary team dedicated to personalized treatment plans, we focus on helping patients achieve significant recovery and transition to the next level of care.

Job Summary

The Dietitian is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nutritional care for patients in accordance with applicable regulations, policies, and standards. Works closely with interdisciplinary teams to support quality nutritional outcomes and ensures individualized dietary needs are met through clinical consultation, menu oversight, education, and monitoring.

Essential Functions

• Leadership: Completes annual competency testing and maintains professional growth and development to maintain registration and licensure/certification.
• Performs job based on applicable federal, state, and local regulations, company policies and procedures and evidenced based clinical guidelines.
• Performs job within defined scope of practice.
• Participates in developing and implementing policies and procedures related to nutritional care of the patient.
• Monitors quality assurance in the kitchen by ensuring quality measures are routinely done spot checking logs for accuracy, ensures safe sanitary conditions in the kitchen by completing kitchen safety/sanitation audits and test tray audits per policy.
• Participates in the survey process instructs staff in matters of conduct and disclosure always maintains a presence while surveyors are on site and directs the timely collection of information required by the survey team.
• Services on various committees as required by company standards, regulations, and/or appointment by immediate supervisor.
• Direct Patient Care: Conducts initial and reassessments on all patients admitted to the hospital.
• Ensure proper completion of documentation (assessments, care plans, education, discharge planning.
• Prescribes nutrition therapy to meet estimated needs and monitors tolerance.
• Provides ongoing reassessment to ensure optimal nutrition therapy is provided.
• Participates with Interdisciplinary Team meetings to develop, implement, and monitor nutrition care plans.
• Interviews patients, family members, legal representatives, and/or significant others, and staff to obtain diet history, food preferences, and other pertinent information needed to develop and/or update plan of care.
• Advocates for patients to protect and promote patients’ rights and accommodate individual needs and cultural/religious preferences.
• Involves the patient/family in planning objectives and goals for the patient.
• Conducts nutrition education individually and in classes to patients, families, staff, and community as appropriate.
• Conducts meal rounds to ensure that patients are receiving therapy that meets patient’s needs.
• Coordinates with Culinary Service Manager to resolve patients’ concerns or dissatisfactions with diet or meal service.
• Menu Management (if Culinary Services Manager is not a Registered Dietitian, then RD provides the following oversight) Monitors Culinary Services Manger’s oversight of the menu management process.
• Reviews