Registered Dietitian -PRN

DietitianPer Diem

Listed compensation

$41.00 per hour

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Job Description

Southern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital

A Select Medical and Vibra Healthcare partnershipPosition: Registered DietitianLocation: Bowling Green, KY Schedule: PRN Up to $41.00 per hour based on experience

Our Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

  • At our company, we support your career growth and personal well-being.
  • Start Strong: Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting

Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance

Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP), and dental plan offerings for full-time team members

Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members

Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care

Responsibilities

Provides quality nutrition services including, but not limited to, screening, initial assessment, re-assessments, nutrition counseling and education, therapeutic diet calculations, and calorie counts. Develops an appropriate nutritional care plan.

Considers religious, cultural, and ethical factors when completing nutrition assessments and creating plan of care.

Evaluates potential food/drug interactions, and/or herb/supplement interactions. Provides nutrition education/counseling as appropriate.

Communicates and implements the nutritional plan of care with the interdisciplinary care team.

Attend Interdisciplinary Care meetings, when assigned, for the development of patient care plans. Participates with the interdisciplinary team in various medical rounds (as available at the facility) i. e., wound rounds, or dysphagia rounds.

Develops and implements educational programs for patients and staff. Works with the patient to identify a nutrition education plan and sets achievable goals.

Keeps current with nutritional practices and theories. Maintains current ADA requirements, (i. e., Professional Portfolio, self-development, and continuing education classes.)

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Current state licensure/certification, if required by state.
  • Current registration by the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
  • One (1) year of work experience in a facility setting with clinical responsibilities or equivalent.

*Post offer employment testing (POETs) are completed as part of the onboarding process and are to be completed before an employee's first day of work.*

  • Additional Data
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Nutrition ScreeningNutrition AssessmentNutritional Care PlanningFood-Drug Interaction EvaluationInterdisciplinary CollaborationPatient Care PlanningStaff Education

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 46 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 37% are remote, 26% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Kentucky is 90.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$85k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $95k in an average-cost state. 61.6% of Kentucky clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution25 jobs

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<$80k
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$80k-95k
8
$95k-110k
3
$110k-125k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks27 jobs · 25 employers

401k / retirement match
63% this job
Sign-on bonus
44%
CME allowance
37% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Clinical Nutrition (Dietitian) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,208 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Bowling Green

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$265k
Typical market rent
$1,252/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
90.2
State income tax
Up to 4.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Bowling Green, KY metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Southern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital

Benefits & Perks

Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time for full-time team members
Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, dental plan offerings for full-time team members
Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan
Life and disability protection for full-time team members
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Extensive orientation program