Registered Dietitian - Per Diem

Overview

Position: Registered Dietitian

Location: Atlantic City, NJ

Schedule: Per Diem / PRN

Compensation: $45.00 per hour

Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives — and Registered Dietitians play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent care every step of the way.

• Start Strong:
  Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Opportunity for Advancement:
  Demonstrate your skills and dedication which could lead to potential full-time opportunities
• Foster Well-being:
  We offer benefits which support the financial, work/life and emotional well-being of you and your family members. Part time/Per Diem positions are eligible for 401k based on reaching 1,000 hours within their first anniversary or subsequent calendar year. We also offer our employee assistance program to part time employees.
• Your Impact Matters:
  Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
• Provide quality nutritional care to patients such as the development, implementation and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapies.
• Work collaboratively with the medical staff, patients, families and food service department to ensure the patients’ nutrition care plans are implemented and departmental standards are maintained.
• Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments, identifying goals, recommending nutrition interventions, monitoring and evaluating patient progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Work closely with the Speech Therapy Department to assist with the progression of textured modified diets to ensure patient safety and optimize oral intake.
• Clarify admission orders to ensure nutrition support, diet and oral supplement orders are consistent with the facility’s established nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
• Consider religious, cultural and ethnic factors in development of nutrition care plans.
• Review yearly updates and approves therapeutic diet manual annually. Educates clinical and food service staff on location of the Nutrition Care Manual. Maintains hard copy of simplified diet manual for downtime.
• Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintains current professional registration requirements (i.e., Professional Portfolio, self-development and continuing education). Demonstrates interest in continuing education, academics or specialized certification to further enhance professional skills.
• Evaluate potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions.
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and communicating progress and special needs.
• Participate in developing, planning and standardizing menus.
• Perform meal rounds to ensure patients' meal trays are consistent with the prescribed diet and meet standards as to quality, quantity, temperature and appearance.

• Provide quality nutritional care to patients, including development, implementation and monitoring of Medical Nutrition Therapies.
• Work collaboratively with medical staff, patients, families and food service department to ensure nutrition care plans are implemented and standards are maintained.
• Perform nutritional assessments and re-assessments; set goals, recommend interventions, and monitor progress.
• Develop and monitor enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support regimens.
• Coordinate with other disciplines to optimize patient safety and nutrition intake.
• Clarify and review admission orders to ensure nutrition support aligns with the facility’s nutrition support formulary and diet manual.
• Stay current with nutritional practices and maintain professional licensure/registration requirements.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and contribute to care planning.
• Contribute to menu development and standardization.
• Conduct meal rounds to ensure accuracy of meal trays with prescribed diets.

• Bachelor’s degree with major studies in Food and Nutrition related field.
• Current state licensure/certification, if required by state.
• Current registration by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.

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