Dietician

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Job Description Job Description: Registered Dietitian - Full Time - Extendicare Starwood Mission: The Registered Dietitian (RD) is responsible for providing resident nutrition/hydration care and documenting nutrition/hydration care in compliance with regulatory standards and Extendicare's policies and procedures. Qualifications: - To assess nutrition status for all residents on admission, annually and whenever there is a significant change in status; - To determine each resident's level of nutrition and hydration risk in order to prescribe/recommend needed interventions and follow-up care; - To develop a nutrition plan of care for each newly admitted resident; - To evaluate and modify, as needed, the nutrition plan of care for residents being followed by the RD, on an ongoing basis; - To document resident nutrition care for residents followed by the RD; - To provide nutrition/dietary counseling/education for residents and/or their caregivers, family members or substitute decision makers for the purpose of supporting optimum resident nutrition care; - To monitor residents at high nutrition risk and those at moderate nutrition risk who are considered by the RD to require ongoing RD m...