Renal Dietitian

This position provides comprehensive nutrition services and education to dialysis patients and authorized caregivers in a clinical setting, focusing on maximizing 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.

• 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.
• Conduct re-assessments within 3 months of initial assessment, annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
• Participate in interdisciplinary care plans based on assessments or re-assessments within 15 days after completion of assessment, annually for stable patients, and monthly for unstable patients.
• Review medical and diet history, consult with patients and multidisciplinary teams, 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 care plans as needed.
• Review monthly lab results with patients and/or caregivers and provide patients with printed patient nutrition reports.
• Function as a Mineral and Bone Disorder Specialist.
• Participate in anemia management.
• Participate in rounds, patient care conferences, and continuous quality improvement teams (QAPI).

• 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.
• Healthcare experience in free-standing or hospital-based dialysis units.