Registered Dietitian PRN

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.

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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.

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Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.