DIETITIAN - MEDS CLINIC, OUTPATIENT

DIETITIAN - MEDS CLINIC, OUTPATIENT

Posting dates for internal transfers :

August 29, 2025, through August 31, 2025

BASIC FUNCTION :

To provide and ensure the nutritional aspects of patient care and to provide educational and instructional service to patients, families and community at large.

JOB DUTIES :

1. Complete the Nutrition Care Process on patients and residents per Nutritional Services policy.

2. Provide Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) for referred MEDS Clinic patients.

3. Provide education and counseling related to nutritional status

4. Provide inpatient and outpatient instructions appropriate to prescription and individualized to the patient.

5. Cooperate in patients' care by acting as consultant to physicians, nurses, medical social workers, and other para-medical persons in all areas of normal and therapeutic nutrition.

6. Consult with physicians concerning dietary prescriptions and implementing these through nutrition intake adapted to the needs of individual patients. Recommend supplement and enteral feedings.

7. Formulate, direct and participate in staff development and in service education and training of dietary personnel.

8. Educate the community through group classes (e.g., diabetes classes, Lunch-and-Learn, Diabetes Support Group, etc.).

9. Evaluate and prepare education materials.

10. Attend interdisciplinary meetings as directed.

11. Maintaining safety and sanitary standards of the department

12. Participate in quality assurance programs and updating as needed.

13. Responsible for checking emails and on line learning assignments (Relias) on a regular basis

14. Provide nutritional support to Wound Clinic and ACCN.

15. Other duties as assigned.

HEALTH CARING STANDARDS / VALUES :

1. Greet customers, visitors, and Colleagues immediately with a smile, warm greeting, and introduction, calling them by name if possible.

2. Exceed the expected and anticipate the unexpected by asking, “Is there anything else I or a fellow Colleague can do for you?”

3. Always provide a comforting, timely, caring departure, or discharge, and always say thanks for allowing us to serve.

4. Integrity, openness and fairness in all you do

5. Teamwork

6. Pride in Department

7. Individual creativity and Innovation

9. Compassion and caring

10. Maintain department and hospital standards and policies.

AGE APPROPRIATE CARE :

Colleague has been instructed in providing customer service and on interacting with age groups as related to the department's general client population : including use of appropriate interventions, communication and skills to match the age and / or abilities of

the patient / family.

MACHINES, TOOLS & EQUIPMENT USED :

Computer, iPad, smartboard, projector, and FAX machine

EDUCATION, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

Registered Dietitian, licensed in the state of Ohio

Ability to educate clients of diverse backgrounds and education levels

Ability to work with all types of people

Ability to make appropriate decisions

Ability to flex hours and assignments to complete all aspects of job in a limited schedule – inpatient and resident Competent with the Nutrition Care Process

Must be computer literate to complete task(s) as required.

CDE credential preferred but not required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :

• Able to stand / walk 7.5 hours per day.
• Able to bend to reach items on the floor, desk level and overhead.
• Must lift minimum of 25 lbs routinely for 7.5 hours per day.
• Able to see clearly and hear normal speaking tones.
• Able to communicate verbally interpersonally and over the telephone in a clear and concise speech.
• Dexterity necessary to write legibly and type for long periods; up to four hours at a time.

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