Clinical Dietitian

• Functions as a nutrition consultant, completing nutrition consults and referrals from Nemours and community providers.
• Conducts nutrition assessment and intervention for Inpatients and Outpatients, as required by the specific position. For inpatients, this includes those patients identified at high nutrition risk; completes re-screens for patients who are identified at moderate or low nutrition risk upon admission.
• Develops and implements nutritional care plans based on diet history, labs, medications, supplements, medical history, medical care plan, and expected growth and development appropriate for the patient’s age, sex, cultural /ethnic background and disease specific requirements.
• Performs nutrition counseling for pediatric patients/caretakers regarding disease specific diets and /or formulas. This requires knowledge of composition of infant, pediatric, and adult formulas, along with ability to calculate specialized formula recipes and meal plans.
• Documents nutritional assessments and recommendations via EPIC medical record documentation system.
• Actively participates in team rounds, as necessary.
• Provides recommendations for and prescribes enteral feeding and parenteral nutrition orders, as necessary.
• Demonstrates clinical proficiency in direct clinical nutrition patient consultation/care and is responsible for the completion of 100% of clinical competencies (to include basic competencies and enteral/parenteral prescribing competencies, as deemed necessary by manager).
• Continually updates teaching materials recommended for nutritional therapies pertaining to specific diseases.
• Serves as nutrition resource to medical team, hospital staff and community.
• Interacts and coordinates nutritional care of patients with physicians and other health care providers (nurses, social workers, therapists, hospital/community dietitians, homecare companies, pharmacies, and school personnel).
• Fulfills on-call responsibilities on a rotating schedule with other dietitian staff.

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• Assesses the nutritional needs of patients and develops and implements nutritional care plans
• Documents the nutritional status and needs of hospitalized patients using established standards of care and practice guidelines
• Communicates with physicians and other healthcare professionals to coordinate medical and nutritional needs of patients
• Initiates and follows patients for nutrient intake analysis and makes recommendations for continuance progression or initiation of alternate therapies
• Writes orders for diet, supplement, enteral/parenteral nutrition and laboratory data per hospital policy
• Provides counseling and education to patients and their families regarding various topics in medical nutrition therapy and drug nutrient interaction

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