Dietitian- Medical Nutrition Specialist

Job Responsibilities:

• • Recognize and respect patient rights during the provision of care or services and conducting business relationships with patient and the public in an ethical manner

  • • Perform assessments/reassessments of each patient's care or service needs throughout the patient's contact with the organization including physical assessments, psychosocial assessments, functional assessments, and activity assessments as appropriate

    • • Formulate, revise, and maintain enteral nutrition patient care plans based on physician orders and assessment findings including the identification of patient problems/needs, goals and actions, and interventions relating to the care or service provided

      • • Monitor patient's response to the care or services provided, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided

        • • Educate patients with relation to their enteral feeding to facilitate safe and effective use, as well as desired care, treatment, and service outcomes

          • • Provide patient care, treatment, and service in a continuous and coordinated manner, in settings appropriate to meet patient needs

            • • Responsible for community education regarding all aspects of medical nutrition services provided by company

              • • Maintaining and managing a minimum monthly patient admits/census

                • • Promote safe and effective patient and organizational environments and feeding equipment use

                  • • Participate in on-going education including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve individual competence

                    • • Obtain, utilize, and update patient information in a confidential and secure manner for utilization in patient care applications

                      • • Recognize and implement infection control practices that reduce the risk of infections in patients and organizational staff

                        • • Drives to admit, deliver, and pick up such items as enteral formula, feeding pump(s), IV poles, related feeding supplies to patients' home or place of business

                          • • Records delivery information and tracks mileage

                            • • Listens to and resolves service complaints appropriate to scope of practice

                              • • Assists sales team in clinical presentations

                                • • Issues or obtains customer signature on admission, pickup, or delivery

                                  • • May have to communicate, interact with, assess, and/or treat Secure Health Systems' patients/family members that may be:

                                      • • Infants (0 - 1 years of age)

                                        • • Pediatrics (1 - 17 years of age)

                                          • • Adults (18 - 64 years of age)

                                            • • Seniors (65 years or greater)

                                            • • Responsible for National On-Call

                                                • • not to exceed 6 shifts per year
                                                    

                                                
                                                
                                                

                                                • • Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

                                                  • • Calculate figures and amounts such as commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume

                                                    • • Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

                                                      • • Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

                                                        • • Should have knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, and e-mail communications

                                                          Education and Experience:

                                                          • • Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and/or Dietetics, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics

                                                            • • Registered Dietitian/Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD or RDN)

                                                              • • Licensed Dietitian for the geographical area where he/she manages patients (LD or LDN)

                                                                • • One or more years of RD/RDN experience preferred, but not required

                                                                  Physical Demands:

                                                                  • • Frequently is required to drive, walk, and sit

                                                                    • • Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

                                                
                                                
                                                Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled