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Renal Dietitian

2 months ago

Baltimore, Maryland, United States LifeBridge Health Full time
Renal Registered Dietitian - LifeBridge Health

Job Summary:

This position provides comprehensive nutrition services and education to dialysis patients and authorized caregivers in a clinical setting, focusing on maximizing the patient's nutritional well-being in a chronic-care facility for end-stage renal disease patients. The successful candidate will work in accordance with LifeBridge Health policies, procedures, and guidelines, as well as OSHA, CMS, federal, state, and local regulations.

  • Assessment and Intervention: Conduct initial assessments within 30 days of admission or 13 treatments, whichever is later, and re-assessments within 3 months of initial assessment, annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
  • Interdisciplinary Care Plan: Participate in care plan development based on assessment or re-assessment, with a 15-day turnaround time after assessment completion, annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
  • Nutrition Education and Counseling: Provide individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy, including meal plans, and nutrition education and counseling based on patient needs, including nutrient requirements, knowledge, and abilities, medical, economic, and social situations.
  • Monitoring and Revision: Monitor nutritional status, laboratory values, dialysis adequacy, adherence to diet, and response to nutrition-related medications and therapy, revising and updating nutritional recommendations and care plans as needed.

Requirements:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a similar area.
  • Registration: Registered Dietitian status with the Commission on Dietetic Registration.
  • Licensure: State licensure in Maryland or the state where the facility is located.
  • Experience: Minimum of two years' professional work experience in clinical nutrition as a Registered Dietitian, with a preference for five years of experience in dialysis settings.

About LifeBridge Health:

As one of the largest healthcare providers in Maryland, with 13,000 team members, LifeBridge Health strives to CARE BRAVELY for over 1 million patients annually. Our network 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.