Registered DietitianSelect Medical
Job Summary
- Provide quality nutritional care to patients, such as the development, implementation, and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapies.
- work collaboratively with the medical staff, patients, families, and food service department to ensure the patients’ nutrition care plans are implemented and departmental standards are maintained.
- Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments, identifying goals, recommending nutrition interventions, monitoring, and evaluating patient progress.
- Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
- Work closely with the Speech Therapy Department to assist with the progression of textured modified diets to ensure patient safety and optimize oral intake.
- Clarify admission orders to ensure nutrition support, diet, and oral supplement orders are consistent with the facility’s established nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
- Consider religious, cultural, and ethnic factors in the development of nutrition care plans.
- Review yearly updates and approve the therapeutic diet manual annually. Educates clinical and food service staff on the location of the Nutrition Care Manual. Maintains a hard copy of the simplified diet manual for downtime.
- Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintains current professional registration requirements (i.e., Professional Portfolio, self-development, and continuing education). Demonstrates interest in continuing education, academics, or specialized certification to further enhance professional skills.
- Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions.
- Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and communicate progress and special needs.
- Participate in developing, planning, and standardizing menus.
- Perform meal rounds to ensure patients' meal trays are consistent with the prescribed diet and meet standards as to quality, quantity, temperature and appearance.