Renal Dietitian
1 day ago
Job Summary:
This position provides comprehensive nutrition services to dialysis patients and authorized caregivers in a clinical setting, supporting and maximizing the patient's nutritional well-being in a chronic-care facility for end-stage renal disease patients.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 assessments or re-assessments with 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.
- Select or develop educational materials and methods appropriate for individual patients.
- 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.
- Function as a Mineral and Bone Disorder Specialist.
- Participate in anemia management.
- Participate in rounds, patient care conferences, and continuous quality improvement teams (QAPI).
- Administer quality patient care in a considerate, respectful manner.
- Evaluate outcomes and identify factors that may contribute to undesirable results and document appropriately.
- Document nutrition progress at least monthly.
- Document according to Federal, State, and LifeBridge Health Baltimore Health System requirements.
- Establish effective relationships with medical teams, nursing, and other patient care team members.
- Establish effective relationships with patients and caregivers.
- Contact and collaborate with extended care facility staff, family members, or other appropriate medical personnel to facilitate adequate and appropriate nutritional care.
- Effectively communicate pertinent nutrition issues with medical teams.
- Present nutrition-related in-services for clinical teams quarterly.
Requirements:
- 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 is preferred.
- Exceptional time management skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written.
- Critical thinking skills, analytical, and work well within a team.
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