Dietitian
Profession: Dietary Services
Specialty: Dietitian
Duration: 16 weeks
Shift: Day
Hours per Shift: 8 hours (07:30 - 16:00)
Experience: Minimum 1 year
License: Required
Certifications: BLS, RD
Must-Have:
Experience with calorie counts, enteral nutrition, food-drug interactions, TPN, developing plans/treatments, and nutrition assessments.
Description:
Schedule requirements:
RTO: MAX 7 days
Weekend: Not specified
Call requirements: Not specified
Holidays:
If one major holiday falls in the assignment period, the traveler is expected to work it.
If two major holidays fall in the assignment period, the traveler is expected to work both holidays.
If three major holidays fall in the assignment period, the traveler is expected to work two of the holidays.
Major holidays include:
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving/Black Friday
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day
New Year's Eve/New Year's Day
Floating: N/A
Compliance: FULL compliance required to start on time.
If not compliant in time, the push back is 2 weeks due to bi-weekly orientation schedule.
Unit systems: EPIC
Patient population: Infant to geriatrics
Client offer unit: Candidate will be reviewed by clinical to determine clinical fit.
If clinical pass and within guidelines, candidate will be sent to the manager for final decision.
Compliance: FULL compliance required to start on time.
If not compliant in time, the push back is 2 weeks due to bi-weekly orientation schedule.
Locals accepted at the same rate.
Previous charge experience: Minimum 1 year
Patient ratio experience: 15
Skills:
Abdominal wounds and surgeries
Acid/base balance
Acute MI
Alzheimer's disease
Appetite stimulants
Aspiration safety
Assess fluid status
Blood glucose/A1C
Cachexia
Calorie counts
Cancer
Chronic diarrhea
Chronic wounds
Cirrhosis
Crohn's disease
Cystic fibrosis
Develop plan of treatment
Diabetes
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Dialysis/hemodialysis/CRRT
Dietary guidelines
Diuretics
Dysphagia
Eating disorders
Elevated cholesterol/triglycerides
Enteral nutrition (tube feedings)
Epiglottis
Extensive burns
Failure to thrive
Fluid balance
Fluid/electrolyte requirements
Food-drug interactions
Food-drug timing
Heart failure
Hyperemesis
IBS
Immunosuppressants
Insulin
Intake and output
Kidney disease - acute/chronic
Laxatives
Lipid panel
Low blood sugar
Malabsorption syndromes
Marasmus
Metabolic demands
Morbid obesity
Mucositis
Nutrient deficiencies
Nutrition assessments/reassessments
Nutrition focused physical exam (NFPE)
Nutrition therapy complications
Oral rehydration solutions for high ostomy outputs
Post-op gastric bypass
Pregnancy
Pressor use and effects on GI functioning
Protein-calorie malnutrition
Clienttion
Refeeding syndrome
Short gut syndrome
Steroids
Stomatitis
Therapeutic diet orders
Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
Verbal communication skills
Experience with rounding
Additional unit information:
Patient age groups: Adults, geriatrics
Daily census: Not specified
Number of rooms: Not specified
Number of beds: 643