Job Description
Job Description
ASAP Start - ***
Days - Weekends Possible
1. Assesses patient nutritional status using documented medical information and established nutritional standards.
2. Counsels patients and/or families by identifying nutrition-related problems. Develops plans of instruction and nutritional care, and monitoring results.
3. Identifies inpatients at nutritional risk and documents recommendations.
4. Participates in physicians' rounds, discharge planning rounds, and conferences with nutritional implications.
5. Participates in the development of departmental policies, procedures, nutritional standards, patient educational material, and QI projects.
6. Conducts education programs for patients, community groups, and staff.
Department: Clinical Nutrition