Dietitian / Medical Nutrition Therapy

4 weeks ago

Morgantown WV, United States WVUH West Virginia University Hospitals Full time

To apply to this position and be considered, click the Apply button located above this message and complete the application in full. The Surgery/Bariatrics Clinical Dietitian works with the medical team to provide optimal medical nutrition therapy to patients in the Bariatric clinic and upon post-surgery follow-up in the hospital. Works with members of the department to improve quality care to patients. Coordinates care with inpatient dietitians.
Registration with the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics.
Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
5 years or more experience in clinical or community nutrition.
2 years of experience with adult weight loss counseling.
Accountable as nutrition liaison/expert in Weight management responding to needs and initiatives for nutrition care process improvement. Coordinates, promotes, and provides outpatient nutrition services to the weight management population and provides group and individual nutrition counseling to individuals pursuing weight loss.
Assesses the nutrition needs of weight management patients by completing a nutrition assessment, identifying nutrition risk, include diet education and an individualized nutrition care plan within the EMR.
Complete and document calorie counts/dietary recall/assessments and follow-ups accurately according to standards of care; including but not limited to: appropriateness of diet to diagnosis, adequacy of current diet, assessment of laboratory values, drug-nutrient interactions, medical history, current nutritional needs, nutrition education needs, care plan development and writing orders in the electronic medical record when nutrition intervention is needed for a patient. Document summary of and communicate results to medical staff and patient.(The Registered and Licensed Dietitians (RD/LD) at WVU Medicine have been granted Order Writing Privileges which have been approved and established by the WVU Medicine Medical Executive Committee and the WVU Medicine Board of Directors. These privileges may be utilized whenever the registered dietitian is involved in patient care and allows the RD/LD to order medical Nutrition Therapies within their scope of practice as defined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and West Virginia Board of Licensed Dietitians (WBOLD).
The RD is considered qualified with current registration from the Commission on Dietetic Registration, current
licensure through the WVBOLD, and clinical competency as verified by the Clinical Nutrition Manager initially
and through the annual performance appraisal process. (See RD order writing privileges policy for specific
Participates in all appropriate weight management team meetings and support groups and will participate in monitoring QI metrics to plan and implement performance improvement strategies including fiscal, clinical, and patient satisfaction data to improve program operations
Effectively communicate with nursing, medical and other hospital and clinic staff to ensure high quality nutritional care. Attends care plan conferences or any other meeting/conference that physicians request dietitian attendance or those meetings/conferences required to maintain accreditation of hospital programs or foster partnership with other facilities.
Helping with implementation of patient info sessions and medical weight loss classes including patient flow and helping to achieve compliance with required documentation.
Managing and updating program’s website and social media.
Monitoring patient progress to eliminate any barriers to high quality patient-focused plans of care including compliance such as food logging when applicable, weigh-ins.
Collaborating with available social services to access and mobilize appropriate resources including financial assistance, and family/community resources to meet identified emotional, social, and financial needs
Coordinating telemedicine model such as ECHO program and less formal internal meetings regarding difficult cases
Traveling to system hospitals to provide education and training
Helping with implementation of educational initiatives that create obesity medicine workforce for state: resident and med student rotations/tracks, obesity medicine fellowship, APP training, primary care partnerships
Partnering with stakeholders around the state for outreach and participating in advocacy for obesity treatment (improved insurance coverage for medications and surgery, eliminate prior auths, for example)
Review and update clinical rotation assignments annually to reflect changes in practice and feedback from previous interns.
· co-sign all intern documentation in the medical record
· Correct assignments and evaluate progress within 2 weeks of the end of the rotation
· Pediatric nutrition, formulas, etc.)
· Attend intern case study presentations, question interns, evaluate presentation.
Develop and present in-services/lectures to weight management support groups, other health care personnel, and students if needed.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Must be able to read and interpret professional literature and to read and write professionally in the medical record.
Requires ability to use paging system, beeper and phone.
Must be able to get to assigned clinics and visit patients.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Majority of work is performed in patient care clinics.
Some office, classroom and meeting room work.
Occasional community speaking.
Requires use of EPIC computer system along with being skilled in computer programs such as Word, Excel and Power Point.
Experience with Nutrition analysis software preferred.
The Surgery/Bariatrics Clinical Dietitian works with the medical team to provide optimal medical nutrition therapy to patients in the Bariatric clinic and upon post-surgery follow-up in the hospital. Works with members of the department to improve quality care to patients. Shift:
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