Clinical Dietitian II - Main Oncology Admin - Full Time - Days

Job description

A member of the multi-disciplinary health care team responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of optimal nutritional care and education of patients/clients in accordance with established standards of care. A. Nutrition Counseling: 1. Provide individual initial and follow up appointments for outpatient nutritional counseling 2. Prepare for outpatient nutritional counseling for individual needs and specific diseases. 3. Utilize age-specific physiological and developmental assessment criteria, assess nutritional needs of patients which have been screened and identified in need of medical nutrition therapy 4. Considering age specific physiological and developmental needs and cultural socioeconomic issues, develop plan of care to achieve desired outcomes; monitor and reassess in accordance with established standards of care to evaluate outcomes and revise plan of care as needed to improve outcomes. 5. Communicate nutrition needs and care issues to other health care providers via documentation using the Nutrition Care Process and ADIME. 6. Educate patients, family and/or significant others in normal and therapeutic nutrition based on assessment of individual learning ne...