Renal Dietitian

This position provides comprehensive nutrition services and education to dialysis patients and authorized caregivers in a clinical setting to support and maximize the patient's nutritional well-being.

• Assess nutritional status to determine appropriate nutrition intervention and recommendations.
• Perform initial assessments within 30 days or 13 treatments, whichever is later, or admission or transfer to the facility.
• Perform re-assessments within 3 months of initial assessment and annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
• Participate in Interdisciplinary Care Plans based on assessment or re-assessment within 15 days after completion of assessment, annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
• Review medical and diet history, consult with the patient and multidisciplinary team, document appropriate information and nutrition progress in medical records at least monthly.
• Develop individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy, including meal plans, for each patient.
• Provide nutrition education and counseling based on individualized patient needs, including nutrient requirements, knowledge, and abilities, medical, economic, and social situations.
• Monitor nutritional status, laboratory values, dialysis adequacy, adherence to diet, and response to nutrition-related medications and therapy to determine appropriate nutrition intervention and recommendations.
• Revise and update nutritional recommendations and nutritional care plans as needed.
• Review monthly lab results with each patient and/or caregiver and provide patients with printed patient nutrition reports.

• Bachelor's degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a similar area.
• Registered Dietitian status with the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• State licensure required in the state of Maryland or where the facility is located.
• Minimum of two years' professional work experience in clinical nutrition as a Registered Dietitian.
• Five years of experience working in a dialysis setting is preferred.

As one of the largest healthcare providers in Maryland, with 13,000 team members, we strive to CARE BRAVELY for over 1 million patients annually. LifeBridge Health includes Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, Carroll Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, and Grace Medical Center, as well as our Community Physician Enterprise, Center for Hope, Practice Dynamics, and business partners: LifeBridge Health & Fitness, ExpressCare, and HomeCare of Maryland.