You’ll need
Licensure
✓Montana Nutritionist License
Education
✓BS or advanced degree
Qualifications
✓Experience with critical patients and patients mentioned above
✓Nutrition focused physical examination/malnutrition assessment, inpatient experience, work with feeding tubes
✓RD or RDN
✓If this is a weekend requisition, candidate needs to be comfortable working solo
✓Sometimes will see interns in the department (no precepting)
✓Other staff dietitians
✓Hospitalist 24/7
✓Intensivist 24/7
Logan Health Medical Center
210beds
New Montana dietitian contracts paying $2,100+/wk
Weekly. Verified links and pay changes. No account.
Full employer posting
- Clinical Interview - Manager Final Review Will float between Kalispell and Whitefish
- About Facility:
- Level III Trauma Center
- 145 Beds:
- Unit Information:
- Beds: N/A
- Minimum Years of Experience required? 2 years of inpatient acute experience.
- Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes, but travel experience preferred
- Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:
- Adults only. Inpatient only, no outpatient
- Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, renal issues, GI issues, vented patients, tube feeds, TPN, aggressive nutritional therapy (need to be able to assess needs and recommend best formula/)
- Could take part in interdisciplinary rounds
- Case Load:
- 8-12 nutritional assessments per dietitian per day, could be 6-8 for critical patients
- Required License, National Certification, Certs:
- BLS
- RD or RDN
- BS or advanced degree
- Montana Nutritionist License
- Skills required:
- Experience with critical patients and patients mentioned above
- Nutrition focused physical examination/malnutrition assessment, inpatient experience, work with feeding tubes
- If this is a weekend requisition, candidate needs to be comfortable working solo.
- Support within the Department:
- MDs
- RNs
- Sometimes will see interns in the department (no precepting)
- Other staff dietitians
- Supervisor
- RT 24/7
- Hospitalist 24/7
- Intensivist 24/7
- PT/ST/OT
- Technology/Equipment:
- EMR: Meditech - experience preferred
- Volt messaging app and Microsoft technology
- Floating: If yes, where?
- Will throughout hospital to cover any unit needed, except Peds and NICU.
- Could float to Logan Health Whitefish (13 miles away) or provide remote support for that location. Would know in advance if needed over there. No ICU at Whitefish (CAH); will cover any acute or swingbed patients. If floated to Whitefish, will be functioning as solo dietitian.
- Orientation (facility and unit):
- New employee orientation
- 2 days of departmental orientation
- Scheduling:
- Weekend rotation: dependent on requisition. Could be every weekend, could be no weekends.
- On call? No
- Holiday Expectations: It is possible to work a holiday
- Approval of RTO: to go through manager
- Shift times: Dependent on requisition, could accommodate 4 10h shifts or 5 8h shifts, no nights. There is some flexibility; manager will discuss further in 2nd interview
- Schedule cycle: will likely know full schedule when starting
- Other notes:
- Scrub Color: Any solid-colored scrubs or business casual
- Parking: Free
About the role
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, renal issues, GI issues, vented patients, tube feeds, TPN, aggressive nutritional therapy (need to be able to assess needs and recommend best formula/)