Registered Dietitian II FT Days
Employment Type : Full-Time
Description
Registered Dietitian - AdventHealth - Orlando
Location Address: 601 E Rollins St, Orlando, FL 32803
Top Reasons to work at AdventHealth – Orlando
- Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando
- Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America
- AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
- We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year
Work Hours/Shift: Full Time, Monday – Friday, 40 hours between 7am - 5pm
You Will Be Responsible For:
Provision of Services
Demonstrates, through behavior, AdventHealth’s service standards.
- Assessment- Completes nutrition focused physical assessments, takes measurements, reviews medical records, collects data via interviews, utilizes validated tools, evaluates anthropometric status, and calculates estimated comparative standards.
- Diagnosis- Evaluates assessment data to identify nutrition risks, nutrition problems, criteria consistent with malnutrition, knowledge deficits, and/or high-risk health behaviors.
- Intervention- Offers nutrition recommendations, orders, education/counselling, and/or referral to other services.
- Education and Counselling- Provides counseling and education that reflects appropriate health literacy and cultural sensitivity to patients with disease processes that require nutritional management. Uses evidenced based theories and concepts to include transtheoretical model and motivational interviewing.
- Monitoring- Makes follow-up available to detect progress. Adjust nutrition plans of care to reach nutrition goals and to promote optimal outcomes.
- Leadership- Makes supervised practice experience available to dietetic interns and new employees that satisfy learning objectives. Remains abreast of emerging research applications and evidenced-based guidelines, Participates in research, performance improvement, and initiatives.
- Communication- Enters complete, accurate, and timely electronic health record documentation and orders per protocol and standard operating procedure to reflect patient care. Offers timely response to internal electronic communication.
- Collaboration- Participates in patient care rounds. Creates nutrition plans of care that reflect collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. Promotes evidenced-based nutrition care. Makes expertise available to foodservice areas.
Qualifications
Qualifications - External
What You Will Need:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition, Dietetics, Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutrition or nutrition-related field AND 3-year clinical experience
- OR Graduate degree in nutrition or nutrition related field AND 1-year clinical experience
- Current, active State of Florida Dietitian/Nutritionist license
- Current, active Registered Dietitian (RD) through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)Ability to use computer-based electronic health record
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and regulations as related to Dietetics practice
- Proficiency in the Nutrition Care Process of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
Preferred:
- Graduate degree in Food and Nutrition, Dietetics, Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutrition Health Sciences or nutrition-related field
- Bilingual – English required/Spanish preferred
- Working knowledge of the accreditation requirements of regulatory agencies and International Organization for Standardization quality management systems
- CBORD Diet Office experience
- Cerner electronic health record experience
- Experience working with dietetic students and interns
- Post-graduate training in nutrition
- Advanced practice, Board certification or specialist nutrition certification in nutrition
- Post-Graduate certificate in nutrition
Job Summary:
The registered dietitian utilizes the nutrition care process to screen, assess, diagnose, offer nutrition intervention, and monitor the nutrition status and progress of patients. The registered dietitian uses the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Standards of Practice in Nutrition Care and Standards of Professional Performance for registered dietitians.
Actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.
This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.