Provisional Dietitian Licensee-Adult Hospital

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Allied Health## Organization:

Adult Dietitians## Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson##

Job Title:

Provisional Dietitian Licensee-Adult Hospital##

Job Summary:

The Provisional Dietitian Licensee:
Assesses nutritional status of patients with complex medical conditions. Develops, implements, and evaluates outcome of the nutrition care plan. Monitors progress and initiates changes in care plan as required ensuring appropriate use of oral and enteral/parenteral nutrition regimens. Provides nutrition education for patients, family members/care takers, and other members of the health care team. Participates in and or conducts clinical nutrition outcomes research.

Participates as a member of the health care team.## Education & Experience Bachelors degree from an accredited program in Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics and completed a Dietetic Internship.
** Certifications, Licenses or Registration

Required:

** Required by hire date to obtain MS Department of Health Provisional Dietitian license. Within 6 months of hire date, required to obtain RD from Commission on Dietetic Registration and MS Department of Health Dietitian license. ## Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
** Responsibilities:
**** Initiates nutrition assessment and nutrition care plans for patients with complex medical conditions, including those on enteral and/or parenteral nutrition support, using the nutrition care process.**
* ** Assesses nutritional status, identifies nutrition problems, and formulates a     comprehensive care plan according to patient needs including age, cognitive, social, and physical developmental stage, culture, severity of diseases, conditions of impairment or disability, and physical signs of malnutrition.**
* ** Determines nutrition goals and recommends comprehensive nutrition interventions to resolve or improve nutrition problems and achieve goals, including but not limited to: fluid, electrolyte, and glucose management, management of pharmacotherapy in relation to drug-nutrient interactions, supplements, enteral and parenteral formulas, equipment needed to deliver nutrition formulas, transitional feeding plans and post discharge nutrition care plans.
**** Monitors nutrition progress and reassesses nutritional status.**
* ** Monitors implementation of the nutrition care plan.  Identifies outcome indicators and evaluates achievement of goals.  Reassesses nutritional status and adjusts nutrition prescription as indicated to meet nutrition goals.
**** Documents in a timely manner according to department and facility guidelines and protocols.**
* ** Nutrition assessment and follow up documentation is within established intervention timelines.
**** Provides nutrition counseling and education to patients, family members/personal care providers, and other members of the health care team.**
* ** Determines readiness to learn.  Individualizes education according to the targeted audiences needs.  Identifies barriers to learning and obstacles to adherence.  Utilizes nutrition counseling techniques to promote and facilitate behavior changes.
**** Physical and Environmental Demands
** Requires constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, constant sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking.

(occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)
** Participates in processes supportive of organizational and departmental goals including staff meetings and in-services, patient care rounds, hospital and departmental committees, performance improvement activities, productivity and other reports and special projects…