Dietitian - York Outpatient Nutrition Services - Days

Job description

Full Time (72 Hours/Biweekly) Shift: Days: General Summary: Provides medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in an inpatient or outpatient setting. MNT includes assessing, planning, and monitoring all nutrition related care. Ensures quality care, patient satisfaction and good public relations. Essential Functions: - Uses parameters such as anthropometric measurements, nutrition focused physical examination and interpretation of laboratory values to assess the nutritional status of neonates/infants, pediatric, adolescent, adult and /or geriatric patients. - Develops revises and individualizes the nutrition care plan based on information gathered from the patient, patient’s significant other, medical record and health care team members. - Incorporates evidence based research into practice. - Utilizes physician/referring practitioner driven protocols or other facility specific processes to initiate, implement or modify diet orders and nutritional supplements. - In coordination with the physician/referring practitioner implements and monitors enteral and parenteral nutrition. - Documents all relevant aspects of nutrition care for patients in the EMR in accordance with department and institutio...