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Inova Health System
Fairfax, Virginia

Registered Dietitian PRN

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Weekends
No weekends
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Job Description

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital and Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Dietitian to join the Team. This PRN position has the opportunity to cover patients at all Inova Hospitals allowing for up to 40 hours per week coverage, if there is a coverage need. Hours are 8-4:30 Mon-Fri with 1 Saturday coverage per month.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Inova PRN Benefits and Perks

  • State-of-the-art medical and training facilities
  • Retirement benefits with match from day one
  • Free Parking to all employees
  • Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more!

Registered Dietitian PRN Job Responsibilities

  • The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
  • Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
  • Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
  • Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
  • Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
  • Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
  • Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
  • Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
  • Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
  • Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree minimum if licensed before 1/1/2024; Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024 must hold a master’s degree
  • Certification:
  • Registered Dietitian (RD) required within 3 months of hire
  • Basic Life Support from American Heart Association required within 3 months of hire

Preferred Qualifications

  • Inpatient experience preferred.
  • Completion of a Dietetic internship preferred.

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience.

And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Key Responsibilities

The Registered Dietitian provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care by performing comprehensive assessments and formulating individualized nutrition plans. They collaborate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to monitor patient tolerance and optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree (or Master's if registered after 1/1/2024) and obtain Registered Dietitian certification within 3 months. Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association is also required within 3 months of hire.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Certifications

BLS

Key Skills

Clinical nutritionPatient assessmentCare planningMultidisciplinary collaborationClinical documentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Registered Dietitian PRN at Inova Health System a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Clinical Nutrition dietitian listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 32% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

Clinical Nutrition pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

6.0/ 10
Listing-based score
  • No weekends

Living in Fairfax

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$687k
Typical market rent
$2,472/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Inova Health System

Hospitals and Health Care
Falls Church, Virginia
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Retirement Benefits with Match from Day One
Free Parking
Exclusive Savings Opportunities