Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Provides outpatient MNT/nutrition counseling to adult and pediatric patients. Also provides some inpatient float coverage to adult/peds units.

Job Duties:

• Assess, interpret, plan, monitor, and document the nutritional status and nutritional needs of patients using evidence-based standards of care, policies and practice guidelines. Perform a nutrition-focused physical exam on patients. Identify and provide age-specific nutrition care and meet the cultural needs of the patients and their families. Work within an inter-disciplinary team to provide a plan of care to achieve the patient’s health goals.

• Educate patients, care givers, students, and other health care colleagues on the effect of therapeutic diets and nutrition support to maintain/improve nutritional status.

• When assigned, provide support a...