Shift: Day Shift 8x5's -
Location: Specialty Bakersfield - Floating required as needed throughout the Kern County Network (AHTV, AHBD, AHDL). EPIC Experience requiredFormerly known as Bakersfield Heart Hospital since 1999 Adventist Health Specialty Bakersfield is building upon a legacy of exceptional heart care and expanding our ability to better serve Kern County for decades to come. We are comprised of a 47-bed hospital with three operating rooms four cardiac catheterization labs and offer a range of specialty services to the community.
As one of America's fastest growing cities Bakersfield offers affordable housing on the West Coast beautiful weather high-quality education and it is just a few hours away from Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks the Central California Coast and Southern California's great sports theaters concerts and amusement parks. Job
Provides comprehensive nutritional care to patients and residents identified with special needs and/or those who meet nutritional risk criteria. Provides nutritional care which includes patient assessment and reassessment patient and family education interdisciplinary communication nutritional plan of care development and documentation of all interventions in accordance with policy and acceptable practice standards.
Acts as a competent clinician who provides clinical care in a skilled and effective manner utilizing appropriate technical and decision-making skills. Job
Education and Work
Bachelor?s Degree in food and nutrition or equivalent: Required Master's Degree: Required only if eligibility for examination began on or after 1/1/24 Experience as a Clinical Dietitian: Preferred Dietetic internship or its equivalent: Required Licenses/Certifications: Registered Dietitian RD within 6 months of completion of residency program: Required
Performs assessment of patients to determine those at nutritional risk. Provides quality nutritional care through utilization of nutrition plans facilitating appropriate meal patterns monitoring nutritional intake initiating appropriate interventions and providing nutritional education. Responsible for the comprehensive initial nutritional assessment and ongoing reassessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability and determination of nutritional diagnosis.
Responsible for the nutritional evaluation of the patient's response to effectiveness of the implementation of the plan of care. Sets patient care priorities appropriately. Assigns personnel to patient care activities for effective utilization of skills and abilities within their
scope of practice and level of competency. Responsible for medical nutrition therapy administration in a safe and accurate manner monitoring documenting including patient response. Acts as an educational resource for health care team personnel including dietetic interns patients family members and community.
Orients/instructs new professional registered and assistive and ancillary personnel on job duties assignments and clinical activities of the unit. Provides learning opportunities to meet the nutrition education needs of patients/family/significant others. Responsible for direct date collection and data assessment of the patient's nutritional condition and stability.
Supervises indirect data collection of assigned personnel. Performs other job-related duties as assigned. Organizational
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