Registered Dietitian-PRN

The Registered Dietitian provides medical nutrition therapy and nutrition education to patients across the care continuum. This role performs nutrition assessments, develops therapeutic diet plans, and collaborates with the healthcare team to support optimal patient outcomes while ensuring compliance with regulatory and clinical standards.

• Perform nutrition assessments and develop individualized nutrition care plans
• Implement the Nutrition Care Process to provide medical nutrition therapy
• Monitor patient response to therapeutic diets and modify care plans as needed
• Provide nutrition counseling and education to patients, families, and caregivers
• Collaborate with physicians, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare teams to coordinate patient care
• Document nutrition care activities accurately in the medical record
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and regulatory compliance activities
• Assist with training and orientation of dietetic interns or staff as needed

• Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or related field from an ACEND-accredited program
• No experience required (one year experience preferred)
• Registered Dietitian credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) or registry eligible
• Must obtain CDR registration within 6 months of hire if not already credentialed
• Licensed Dietitian in the state of Kentucky (must obtain within 3 months of hire or within 3 months after receiving credentials)

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Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

We seek to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status,…