Registered Dietitian Nutritionist - Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology Clinic Job Oklahoma City area,Oklahoma USA,Healthcare

Position Title:

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
- Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology Clinic

Department:

Children's Endocrinology/Diabetes Clinic

Job Description:

This position may be filled as an RN Level 1, 2, or 3, depending on individual experience, education, and other qualifications.

Special Benefits:

Sign-on bonus up to $10,000 for qualified individuals

Student loan repayment up to $25,000

Relocation assistance if moving 100+ miles

General Description:

The Registered Dietitian Nutritionist II independently delivers comprehensive nutrition care and serves as a clinical resource within their area of practice. This role requires demonstrated proficiency, critical thinking, and the ability to manage complex patient populations or programs.

Essential Responsibilities:

Demonstrates competence, accountability, and responsibility for ensuring safe, ethical, and quality person-centered care and services through regular self-evaluation and timely continuing professional education to maintain and enhance knowledge, skills, and experiences. Approach to practice reflects the value the profession places on health equity in all forms of interaction when delivering care and/or services to colleagues, customers, students/interns, and when interacting with stakeholders.

Provides quality services effectively and efficiently using systematic processes with identified ethics, leadership, accountability, and dedicated resources. Demonstrates Leadership, Interprofessional Collaboration, and Management of Programs, Services, and Resources by providing safe, quality service based on customer expectations and needs; supporting the mission, vision, principles, and values of OU Health; and integration of interprofessional collaboration. Applies, participates in, and/or generates research to enhance practice.

Utilizes evidence-based practice to incorporate the best available research/evidence and information in the delivery of nutrition and dietetics services. Applies knowledge and expertise in communications with patient and the public, and in public policy advocacy efforts. Conducts the nutrition care process and workflow elements to identify and address nutrition-related problems, which a RDN is responsible for treating, incorporating the following elements:
Reviews or obtains nutrition screening data to identify malnutrition or risk of malnutrition Obtains and evaluates medical, nutrition, and food-related information for relevance and accuracy Identifies and labels nutrition problem(s)/diagnosis(es) Develops, plans, and implements culturally appropriate person-/population-centered nutrition interventions Monitors and evaluates person-/intervention-specific indicators and outcomes data to determine whether planned interventions should be continued or revised Documents and communicates results with the interprofessional team and patients/clients/caregivers.

Continuous participation in a QI project at any OU Health location. Quarterly updates are to be scheduled by the RDN and information provided to their leadership. Collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Precept students, interns, or newly hired dietitians as assigned.

General Responsibilities:

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Master's degree in Dietetics, Foods and Nutrition, or a related field from a U.S. regionally accredited institution, or equivalent foreign degree, required.

Experience:

Level I: 0-3 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian required. Level II: 3-5 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian required. Level III: 5+ years of experience as a Registered Dietitian required, plus a CDCES certification (Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist), or obtain…