Clinical Dietitian

DietitianIncludes weekendsPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

  • Shift’s Available: Weekends
  • Employment Type: Per Diem
  • Location: Dallas Regional Medical Center - Mesquite, TX

Responsibilities

Nutritional assessment: evaluate patients' dietary needs based on medical conditions, lab results, and health history

Develop meal plans: create individualized nutrition plans to support recovery, manage chronic diseases, or address specific conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or malnutrition

Track patients’ progress, adjust meal plans as needed, and ensure nutritional goals are met

Work closely with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to integrate nutrition into patient care plans

Educate patients and their families about proper nutrition education, special diets, or post-discharge meal planning

Ensure meals prepared by the dietary staff align with prescribed diets and safety standards

Qualifications

  • Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) license
  • Minimum 1-2 years of experience in a clinical setting providing patient nutritional care

Additional Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Strong understanding of medical nutrition therapy (MNT)
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills
  • Ability to educate and motivate patients and families on healthy eating habits
  • Proficient in electronic medical records (EMR) systems

Pay Transparency

Full benefits at Prime Healthcare: primehealthcare.com

Employment Status: Per Diem

Shift: Variable

Equal Employment Opportunity

Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: eeoc.gov

Key Skills

Individualized Meal PlanningPatient Progress MonitoringPatient EducationFamily EducationInterdisciplinary CollaborationClinical Nutrition CareDietary Safety Standards

Dietitian Career Context

Of the 50 active Clinical Nutrition listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 26% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

In Texas, the Clinical Nutrition weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$76k (86 salary observations; 582 listings), vs ~$78k nationally (2,428 salary observations; 8,305 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Salary Distribution29 jobs · 26 employers

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$120k-135k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
79%
CME allowance
46%
Sign-on bonus
29%
Loan repayment
8%
Relocation assistance
4%

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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 3,172 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Mesquite

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$247k
Typical market rent
$1,471/mo
Residents’ average commute
15 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Dallas Regional Medical Center

Hospitals and Health Care
Mesquite, Texas
201-500 employees