Registered Dietitian

Written By AS Design

POSITION TITLE:
Health/Nutrition Educator

DEPARTMENT:
Medical/Health Education

REPORTS TO:
Health Education

POSITION SUMMARY:
This position exists to provide nutrition consultation and education to patients and their families who are screened as nutrition risk, identified with nutrition risk, and/or referred by physicians or other healthcare providers for nutrition-related problems, chronic disease management, management of nutrition support, to meet regulatory requirements, or for prevention and wellness. The RDN is an integral part of the multidisciplinary team who serves as the patient’s nutrition advocate. The RDN ensures that the patient’s nutrition needs are being met, including when nutrition support (enteral or parenteral) initiation and/or management is necessary, during patient care, clinic visits, and unit/clinic rounds. This position provides the incumbent with a hybrid schedule of on-site and remote attendance sessions, with remote days to be worked out with the Health Education Manager.

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Conducts nutrition assessment when warranted by patient’s needs or conditions or warranted by a regulatory requirement.

  • Selects assessment tools and procedures (matching the assessment method to the situation) and applies assessment tools in valid and reliable ways.

  • Reviews dietary intake for factors that affect health conditions and nutritional risk.

  • Utilizes medical history, laboratory data, drug profile, anthropometric measurements, and diet history to evaluate for nutrition-related consequences.

  • Performs nutrition-focused physical exam (NFPE) during assessments on patients to determine risk and/or degree of malnutrition when indicated.

  • Evaluates psychosocial, functional, and behavioral factors related to food access, selection, preparation; physical activity; and understanding of health condition.

  • Evaluates patients' and family’s knowledge, readiness to learn, and potential for changing behaviors.

  • Observes patients and family for nonverbal and verbal cues that can guide and prompt effective interviewing methods.

  • Organizes and categorizes the data in a meaningful framework that is related to nutrition problems.

  • Determines when a problem requires consultation or referral to another provider or service.

  • Finds patterns and relationships among the data and possible causes for the nutrition problem.

  • Prioritizes the relative importance of nutrition problems for optimal patient health, recovery from illness, management of chronic disease, or disease prevention.

  • Documents the nutrition diagnostic statement in PES (problem, etiology, and signs/symptoms) and provides supporting evidence within the progress note.

  • Formulates and determines a plan of action that is focused on the etiology of the problem and known to be effective based on best current knowledge of evidence from Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Guidelines.

  • Coordinates care with colleagues to ensure appropriate transitions of care are addressed to meet patient’s needs.

  • Acts as a resource for medical/clinical staff on the nutritional management of patients.

  • Interprets and presents current clinical knowledge, standard of care, and research to improve patient care and the nutrition service line.

SUPPORTING JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Attend workshops, training, and meetings as needed, and as requested.

  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Health Education Manager/Director of Medical Service.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required education, experience, training

  • Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics and Nutrition, Health Education or Health Care Management with a focus on Nutrition or Dietetics.

  • At least two recent years of experience with managing patients in a health clinic.

  • Must have experience in building highly productive and collaborative relationships with multi-disciplinary teams.

  • CDR Registered Dietician

  • Knowledge of nutrition care process and ability to apply all steps.

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred education, experience, training

  • Master's Degree in Dietetics and Nutrition, Health Education, or a related field with emphasis on nutrition and health education.

  • Working knowledge of medical nutrition therapy, human behavior in a multi-ethnic population, techniques for effecting behavior change.

  • Experience working in e-Clinical Works.

Job Type:
Full-time

Salary Range:
$74,000.00 to $100,000.00

Expected hours:
40 hours per week

Schedule:
Day shift; no weekends

Work setting:

  • Clinic

  • Outpatient

Work location:
In Person

Benefits:

  • 401(k)

  • Dental insurance

  • Flexible spending account

  • Health insurance

  • Life insurance

  • Paid time off

  • Vision insurance

Language:
Bilingual English/Spanish

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Sharon Barcarse provides over 30 years of experience in the graphic design industry, including branding, publications, advertising, marketing collateral, and online design. She spent 13 years in publication and advertising; both as an art director and later as a creative director overseeing more than 50 annual publications.

In 2003, Sharon started AS Design, based in Santa Monica, CA. Clients have included Guidant Corporation, Abbot Laboratories, Clay Lacy Aviation, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans, Pacific Federal Insurance, Mission Community Hospital, San Fernando Community Health Center, Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge, Valley Industry & Commerce Association, and Los Angeles Valley College.

In her free time, Sharon and her husband like to discover new restaurants and post far too many food and wine photos on Instagram.

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