Clinical Dietitian PRN

Your job is more than a job.

group education sessions related to nutrition and makes nutrition related presentations to interested groups in the community. Implements patient dietary health by consulting with physicians and other health care professionals. Reviews patient records, interviews patients, assesses nutritional needs and formulates appropriate diets.

You're more than your job. Everyone is. And that's what makes you great at your job—a little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you.

At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And that we've built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You'll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result.

Join LCMC Health, and you'll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

• Medical Nutritional Therapy of patients:
• Provides nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy integrated with the patient's medical goals and assists with ensuring compliance with ADA requirements and standards.
• Evaluates, interprets, monitors, and documents the nutritional status and needs of hospitalized patients and outpatients using established standards of care and practice guidelines.
• Identifies and provides age-specific nutrition counseling to meet the cultural needs of the patients and their families.
• Develops, reviews, updates and implements educational materials to meet the needs of patients and professionals.
• Writes order for diet, supplement, enteral/parenteral nutrition and laboratory data per hospital policy.
• Plan meals for hospital patients and others who have special dietary needs.
• Assesses patients' nutritional needs, confers with doctors, and uses computers to analyze nutritional intake.
• Teaches people who need special diets how to plan and prepare foods at home.
• Preceptor of clinical nutrition to newly hired clinical staff:
• Instructs and provides on the job training for newly hired clinical staff.
• Supervises daily work of dietetic technicians and provides input into evaluations.
• Development of educational programs:
• Maintains registered dietitian (RD) status and engages in continuing professional education.
• Identifies continuing education opportunities and complies with Nutrition Services meeting and attendance standards.
• Assists with collection and formation of required data:
• Participates in nutritionally related interdisciplinary projects.

• Required:
  
  1 year of experience Clinical dietetics (CHNOLA/NOEH/NOPS/UMC)

• Required:
  
  Bachelor's Degree Dietetics/Nutrition (CHNOLA/NOEH/NOPS/Touro)
• Preferred:
  Master's Degree Dietetics/Nutrition (UMC)

• Certification Name:
  Basic Life Support Health Care Provider
  • Required
  • Issuer:
    American Heart Association
  • Licensure Speciality:
    Training Certification
  • Entity: NOEH/Touro
• Certification Name:
  Board Certified Dietitian/Nutrition Specialist
  • Required
  • Issuer:
    Commission on Dietetic Registration
  • Licensure Speciality:
    Certification
  • Entity: CHNOLA/NOEH/NOPS
• Certification Name:
  Registered Dietitian/Nutrition
  • Required
  • Issuer:
    Louisiana Board of Examiners in Dietetics and Nutrition
  • Licensure Speciality:
    Licensure
  • Entity: CHNOLA/NOEH/NOPS
• Certification Name:
  Certified Nutrition Support Clinician
  • Issuer:
    National Board of Nutrition Support Certification (NBNSC)
  • Licensure Speciality:
    Specialty Certification
  • Entity:
    Touro

• Strong interpersonal communication skills to communicate with patients,…