Registered Dietitian - Inpatient

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Job Title

Registered Dietitian - Inpatient

Location: Canton

Facility

Mercy Hospital

Department: Dietary-Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital

Job Code: T23012

Shift: Days

Schedule: 8:00am-5:00pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Officially becoming a full member of the Cleveland Clinic Health System in 2021, Mercy Hospital offers a wide variety of medical specialties to the communities in and around Stark County.

Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

People seek guidance from a Registered Dietitian (RD) for many reasons. Some individuals want to maximize wellness and learn to eat healthier to decrease the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, or cancer. Others would like to learn more about sports nutrition, maintaining a healthy weight or aging healthfully. No matter what the reason is, Registered Dietitians help develop personal diet plans to help every patient achieve their goals.

A caregiver in this position works 8:00am to 5:00pm. Start and end times may be flexible.

A Caregiver Who Excels in This Role Will

• Provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education, and counseling to patients.
• Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system, and maintain documentation.

Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for nutritional deficiencies, evaluate fluids and electrolytes, review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of their patients’ nutritional status and need for diet changes.

Create and revise education materials, participate in program development, and develop, implement and market services.

• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.
• Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics or a related field
• Current licensure to practice dietetics in the current state (LD)
• Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
• One year experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition

*Successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program may substitute for experience requirement

Physical Requirements

Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.

Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.

Personal Protective Equipment

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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