Registered Dietitian - Diabetes Specialist

Overview

Transplant Nutrition Specialist position with specialty in Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) certification required. Full Time Day

Shift: 8AM-5PM.

Location:

3410 Worth St, Dallas, TX.

The Transplant Nutrition Specialist provides advanced nutrition therapy for patients with end-stage organ failure, transplant recipients, and living donors. This role includes nutrition assessment, personalized care planning, and evidence-based interventions to improve patient outcomes. Performs all duties of Transplant Nutrition Specialist 1 as well as TPN or insulin management based upon certifications and competencies.

• Perform advanced nutrition assessments for patients with complex medical conditions, integrating biochemical, clinical, and anthropometric data with a nutrition-focused physical assessment.
• Interprets complex patient medical data and interviews patients and caregivers to develop individualized medical nutrition therapy plans.
• Conduct frailty tests in select patients and provide targeted nutrition interventions to optimize pre- and post-transplant recovery.
• Assess calorie, protein, fluid, vitamin, mineral, electrolyte, and insulin needs of patients.
• Formulate and implement personal nutrition prescriptions for oral diets and supplements.
• Implement enteral tube feeding including placement of nasoenteric feeding tubes, selecting formulas, infusion rates, and duration.
• With appropriate certification, manage parenteral nutrition therapy and prescribe formula selection, including micronutrients, electrolytes, infusion rates, duration, and routes.
• Recommend and order appropriate laboratory tests, monitor biochemical and clinical indices, and evaluate tolerance of nutrition therapies.
• Monitor patients  response to nutrition therapies and adjust therapies as indicated.
• Act as a clinical specialist in diabetes insulin management for credentialed professionals; support transplant patients with continuous glucose monitoring and insulin regimen adjustments with providers.
• Provide individualized and group counseling on complex, multi-factorial diets, including post-transplant dietary restrictions, immunosuppressant interactions, and metabolic management.
• Integrate assessments of socio-economic status, family dynamics, patient motivation, and adherence barriers to develop personalized nutrition plans.
• Educate patients and caregivers on fitness, weight management, and frailty interventions within the context of organ failure and transplant nutrition.
• Develop nutrition education tools such as handouts, pamphlets, and booklets.
• Play a key role in transplant candidacy evaluations and contribute to transplant selection conferences.
• Participate in patient rounds, clinic visits, and discharge planning; attend meetings on nutrition, transplant education, patient care standards, or policies.
• Research, develop, and deliver education and instructional programs for dietetic interns, healthcare professionals, or community groups; assist with curriculum development and evaluation of interns.
• Engage in transplant nutrition research, including study design, literature review, data collection, results examination; may serve as investigator and present findings.
• Evaluate and utilize pertinent research information and guidelines in directing patient care; participate in quality assurance programs.
• Inpatient Transplant Nutrition Specialists rotate holiday coverage and weekend on-call duties to ensure continuous nutrition care for transplant patients.

• Extensive knowledge of nutrition science, metabolism, and disease states; advanced medical nutrition therapy including enteral and parenteral nutrition support with transplant-related metabolic considerations.
• Understanding of medical terms, disease prevention, pharmacology for transplant patients, including drug-nutrient interactions and immunosuppressant effects on metabolism; aware of potential adverse reactions.
• Ability to provide age-specific, evidence-based medical nutrition therapy (MNT) tailored to transplant patients.
• Develop, evaluate, and modify patient care plans with cultural proficiency and respect for diverse…