Registered Dietitian

Overview

Registered Dietitian

📍 Newark, NJ | 🕒 Full-Time (Day) | 💼 Dietary |

 

About the Role

The primary purpose of the Registered Dietitian position is to assess and intervene with Pediatric (birth to 18 years), Adult (19-64 years) and Geriatric (65-95+ years) clients, for nutritional risk and education requirements.

 

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

 

Care provided is patient centered.  

• Actively contributes to creating a friendly, welcoming and safe environment for UH customers. Communicates clearly to ensure understanding.
• Responds to complaints and concerns by resolving issues immediately whenever possible.
• Interacts with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the plan of care is coordinated. Meets or exceeds patient/family expectations for service. Acts as a role model for Service Excellence. Maintains professional composure and confidence in the care setting.
• Works effectively with team to ensure customer service scores for work area meet/exceed targets. Demonstrates respect for patient rights and is committed to the uniqueness of the individual patient.

Nutrition Assessment

• Performs nutrition assessments in the time frame consistent with the N.J. State Health Code and/or policy and procedure for designated subunits, and triages clients into appropriate level of care to determine time frame for reassessment intervention and intensity of nutritional care provided.
• Documents all nutritional care provided to clients in the electronic medical record as outlined in the policy and procedure for designated subunits.
• Assesses nutrition status of patients by systematically collecting, recording, and interpreting relevant data from patients, clients, family members, and caregivers.
• Utilizes food-/nutrition-related history; anthropometric measurements; biochemical data, medical tests, and procedures; nutrition-focused physical findings; and client history to determine factors affecting nutrition and health status, and compares data to criteria, relevant norms, and standards for interpretation and decision making.

Nutrition Diagnosis

• Evaluates and monitors client’s progress consistent with policy and procedure and implements appropriate nutritional care collaboratively with primary care physician or designate. Attends and actively participates in interdisciplinary rounds and discharge planning.
• Finds patterns and relationships among the nutrition assessment data to identify a nutrition problem that can be resolved or improved through treatment/nutrition intervention.
• Utilizes standard nutrition diagnostic terminology to write a PES (problem, etiology, and signs/symptom) statement that describes the problem, its root cause, and the assessment data that provide evidence for the nutrition diagnosis.
• Performs Nutrition Focused Physical Examinations (NFPE) to assess and identify patients at risk of malnutrition, preventing malnutrition, and improving nutritional status.

 Nutrition Intervention/Plan of Care

• Formulates a nutrition intervention plan based on the nutrition diagnosis and its etiology that prioritizes diagnoses based on urgency, impact, and available resources; utilizes evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines and other practice guidelines; coordinates care with other health care providers; and considers patients’/clients’ values and expected outcomes.
• Selects nutrition intervention strategies to affect nutritional intake, nutrition-related knowledge or behavior, environmental conditions, or access to supportive care and services.
• Confers and collaborates with patient/client/caregivers to implement and communicate the nutrition care plan.
• Monitors and measures outcomes by selecting nutrition care indicators that are relevant to the nutrition diagnosis and its etiology and signs and symptoms, as well as to the nutrition intervention, medical diagnosis, and quality management goals for nutrition, patient/client population, and disease state and/or severity.

Counseling and Education

• Provides nutrition counseling and education to patients, families and caregivers, and the community using evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines and appropriate instructional methods and tools. Assists in the education of nutrition and dietetics students and interns; plans learning experiences, teaches, and evaluates performance.

Documentation and Communication

• Enters specific diet orders for each patient in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) as outlined in the policy “Registered Dietitian Order Writing Privileg