Travel Dietitian/Registered Dietitian - $2,786 per week in Bakersfield, CA

Job Title: Registered Dietitian Profession: Registered Dietitian Specialty: Clinical Dietitian Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Day Shift - Floating required as needed Hours per Shift: 8 hours Experience: Minimum 2 years of acute inpatient clinical experience preferred License: Registered Dietitian within 6 months of completion of residency program required Certifications: Dietetic internship or its equivalent required Must-Have: Bachelor's Degree in food and nutrition or equivalent required. Description: Provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents identified with special needs and/or those who meet nutritional risk criteria.

Job Title: Registered Dietitian Profession: Registered Dietitian Specialty: Clinical Dietitian Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Day Shift - Floating required as needed Hours per Shift: 8 hours Experience: Minimum 2 years of acute inpatient clinical experience preferred License: Registered Dietitian within 6 months of completion of residency program required Certifications: Dietetic internship or its equivalent required Must-Have: Bachelor's Degree in food and nutrition or equivalent required. Master's Degree required only if eligibility for examination began on or after January 1, 2024. Description: Provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents identified with special needs and/or those who meet nutritional risk criteria. Provides nutritional care that includes patient assessment and reassessment. Offers patient and family education. Facilitates interdisciplinary communication. Develops nutritional plan of care and documents all interventions in accordance with policy and acceptable practice standards. Acts as a competent clinician who provides clinical care in a skilled and effective manner. Utilizes appropriate technical and decision-making skills. Performs assessments of patients to determine those at nutritional risk. Provides quality nutritional care through the utilization of nutrition plans. Facilitates appropriate meal patterns, monitors nutritional intake, and initiates appropriate interventions. Responsible for comprehensive initial nutritional assessment and ongoing reassessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability. Determines nutritional diagnosis and evaluates the patient's response to the effectiveness of the implementation of the plan of care. Sets patient care priorities appropriately. Assigns personnel to patient care activities for effective utilization of skills and abilities. Responsible for medical nutrition therapy administration in a safe and accurate manner. Monitors and documents patient response. Acts as an educational resource for healthcare team personnel, including dietetic interns, patients, family members, and the community. Orients and instructs new professional staff on job duties, assignments, and clinical activities. Provides learning opportunities to meet the nutrition education needs of patients, family members, and significant others. Responsible for direct data collection and data assessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability. Supervises indirect data collection of assigned personnel. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.