A health services network in Upstate New York is seeking a licensed Registered Dietitian to join their growing team at one of their facilities in Syracuse.
About the Opportunity:
- On Site
- Shift: 8am-4:30pm
- Schedule: Full time – 5 shifts per week and one weekend per month
- Setting: Acute Care
Responsibilities included but not limited to are:
- Provide Medical Nutrition Therapy to and nutrition assessment of infants, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients through documentation in the medical record.
- Assess the nutritional status through screening, presence of malnutrition thought the Malnutrition Screening Tool, malnutrition diagnosis, intervention and monitoring to improve nutrition status, increased medical cost, reduce length of stay.
- Utilizes physician/referring practitioner-driven protocols or other facility-specific processes to implement, initiate or modify order for diet or nutrition-related actions (e.g. nutrition supplements, dietary supplements, diet modifications, diet texture modifications for dentition or individual preferences, nutrition-related laboratory tests and medications, and nutrition education and counseling).
- Utilizes physician/referring practitioner-driven protocols or other facility-specific processes to manage nutrition support therapies (e.g., enteral and parenteral formula selection and rate adjustments based on energy needs or laboratory results, addition of designated medications and vitamin/mineral supplements to parenteral nutrition solutions or supplemental water for enteral nutrition).
- Participates in facility-wide and department Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program and on QAPI teams to improve processes and patient care.
- Participates in and attends departmental meetings, staff development, patient care rounds and professional programs.
Requirements:
- Two plus years’ experience in Inpatient/Critical Care
- Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) Certification
- Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
- Certified Dietitian-Nutritionists in New York State.
