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ESH, EPCC Licensed Dietician
Crescens Inc.
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
5 months ago
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Location: Evansville, IN
Duration: 7+months
Type: Contract
In Person Only
The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Analyze patients' nutritional status to create nutrition care plans, monitor dietary
- Complete initial, annual, quarterly, and high-risk assessments per hospital policy to
- Record diet histories and assessments, charts, and progress notes to maintain
- Monitor food service operations to ensure nutritional adequacy and safe food
- Ensure regulatory requirements set by Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services
- Implement evidence-based practice, interventions, and recommendations using
- Nutrition Care Manual Standardized Terminology into daily practice to support
- Work as part of a collaborative healthcare team to ensure optimal nutritional
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- The job profile is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
- Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
What You'll Need for Success:
Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the
following:
- Ability to analyze patients' nutritional status, dietary intake, and weight trends
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice, interventions, and recommendations using Nutrition Care Manual Standardized Terminology.
- Ability to monitor food service operations to ensure nutritional adequacy and safe food handling practices.
- Ability to ensure regulatory requirements set by CMS and TJC are being met by following standardized processes.
- Ability to create nutrition care plans and adjust them as needed.
- Ability to complete initial, annual, quarterly, and high-risk assessments per hospital policy.
- Ability to work as part of a collaborative healthcare team to ensure optimal nutritional results.
- Ability to evaluate and monitor patient nutritional needs and adjust care plans to achieve desired outcomes.
- Ability to ensure safe food handling practices and regulatory compliance to support high-quality patient care.
- Ability to record diet histories and assessments, charts, and progress notes accurately.
- Ability to manage multiple assessment timelines (initial, annual, quarterly, high-risk) in accordance with hospital policy.
- Individuals should have the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:
- This role may be utilized in a supervisory capacity based on agency needs.
Difficulty of Work:
- You will perform duties based on department guidelines and is under the direct
Responsibility:
- While not the final authority, incumbent must exercise judgment in applying alternatives and in conferring with medical/nursing staff and dietary supervisors related to unusual dietary problems or concerns.
- Unusual problems or deviation from guidelines are discussed with supervisor who otherwise reviews work periodically for accomplishment of objectives.
Personal Work Relationships:
- Works with patients, physicians and other clinical staff as required, hospital department heads, students, commercial vendors, general public and community sector.
Personal Work Relationships:
- A high level of judgement and effective communication is required during times of
- Residents or incarcerated individuals may have family, friends, community partners
with the person according to policies and procedures.
- This position will communicate directly with adults, children and families on a regular
Physical Effort:
- Depending on the duties performed or environment setting, frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs or ladders, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling and/or similar movements may be involved.
- This role requires the ability to lift/transport items up to 50 lbs with or without the assistance of equipment.
- This role requires the ability to run short distances to provide immediate care, protection, or attention to patients or incarcerated individuals.
- This role requires keen observational and hearing skills to stay alert for possible dangerous situations.
Working Conditions:
- This role performs work in a state operated hospital facility.
- This role requires the appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- This role requires a high level of attention and safety due to work activities having
Competencies:
- Displaying Technical Expertise
- Demonstrating Initiative
- Driving for Results
- Prioritizing and Organizing Work
Required Qualifications
- Current State of IN dietician license.
- RD or DTR certification by the Commission on Dietician Registration (CDR).
- Prior experience with the National School Luncheon Program for Children.
- Prior experience with Medicare, Medicaid and The Joint Commission regulatory rquirements.
- Prior experience with both adult and children population.
- Prior experience in a resident, hospital or psychiatric facility.
- Prior experience with Oracle Cerner.
ESH, EPCC Licensed Dietician · Crescens Inc.