Registered Dietitian
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Job Location:
Tucson, AZ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Position: Registered Dietitian
Location: Select Specialty Hospital - Tucson (located on NW Medical Center campus)
Schedule: Mon-Fri
Select Specialty Hospital - Tucson is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable painful moments of their lives and Registered Dietitians play a central role in providing compassionate
excellent care every step of the way.
Why Join Us:
- Start Strong: Extensive and thorough Registered Dietitian orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX health vision and dental plan offerings for full-time team members.
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan as well as life and disability protection
- Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.
Responsibilities
- 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 facilitys established nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
- Consider religious cultural and ethnic factors in development of nutrition care plans.
- Review yearly updates and approves therapeutic diet manual annually. Educates clinical and food service staff on location of the Nutrition Care Manual. Maintains hard copy of 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 communicating 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.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree with major studies in Food and Nutrition related field.
- Current state licensure/certification if required by state.
- Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
- One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Key Skills
- Culinary Experience
- EMR Systems
- Motivational Interviewing
- Food Service
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- Computer Skills
- MDS
- Dietary Department Experience
- Dialysis Experience
- Food Production Experience
- Tube Feeding
About Company
Select Medical is one of the largest providers of critical illness recovery hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation centers, and occupational health clinics in the United States. Guided by our mission to provide an exceptional patient care experience t ... View more
