BronxCare Health System

Nonprofit teaching hospital system in the Bronx

Registered Dietitian - Ada

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeBronx, NY, USA$43.59In-person

About the Job

Requirements

Qualifying hospital internship experience.
Successful completion of the requirements for dietetic registration.
One year of experience in clinical nutrition.
Must be a Registered Dietitian with ADA registration as a dietitian.
A baccalaureate degree in Food and Nutrition or Dietetics is required.

Responsibilities

Provide and document comprehensive clinical nutrition services to patients in compliance with regulatory agency requirements.
Maintain departmental quality assurance and quality control programs.
Provide ongoing nutritional education to medical, nursing, and nutrition staff.
Follow standard practices for regularly scheduled hours, productivity, and employee behavior.
Maintain and promote awareness of the hospital mission statement and programs to help accomplish its goals.
Provide timely clinical nutrition services through nutrition screening, assessment, follow-up care, and counseling.
Collaborate with the Clinical Nutrition Manager during admissions screening by attending daily team meetings and discussing patient visitation assignments.
Collaborate with medical and nursing staff on individual patients to support optimal nutrition care.
Document nutrition care in patient medical records according to department standards.
Delegate intermediate and basic care-level patient visitation activities to graduate dietitians and diet clerks through the Clinical Nutrition Manager.
Use the approved Nutrition Care Manual appropriately.
Plan and implement educational programs for medical, nursing, and nutrition staff and patients.
Attend routine staff meetings and departmental or hospital in-services and orientation, and follow hospital attendance-verification policy.
Participate in departmental patient-services quality assurance and quality control programs.
Participate in the training of dietetic students.
Participate in educational programs or developmental in-services to improve skill levels.

Overview

Performs a variety of tasks according to standard practices and procedures, and in complance with regulatory agency requirements that facilitate:

1. Provision and documentation of comprehensive level clinical nutrition services to patients

2. Maintenance of departmental quality assurance/quality control programs

3. Provision of on-going nutritional education to medical/nursing and nutrition staff

4. Following standard practices for regularly scheduled hours, productivity and employee behavior

5. Maintaining and promoting awareness of hospital mission statement and programs in order to assist in accomplishing its goals.

Responsibilities

- Provides comprehensive level of clinical nutrition services appropriately and in timely manner by maintaining an efficient program for nutrition screening, assessment, follow-up care and counseling.

- Collaborates with clinical Nutrition Manager during admissions’ screening process by attending and participating in daily team meetings to receive/discuss daily patient visitation assignments.

- Collaborates with medical/nursing staff regarding individual patients to facilitate optimum nutrition care.

- Documents nutrition care provided in patient’s medical record in accordance with department standards.

- Delegates intermediate and basic care level patient visitation activities to graduate dietitians and diet clerks via CNM.

- Utilizes approved Nutrition Care Manual appropriately.

- Plans and implements educational programs for medical/nursing and nutrition staff and patients.

- Attends routine staff meetings, departmental/hospital in-services/orientation. Follows hospital policy on verification of attendance at same.

- Participate in departmental patient services quality assurance/quality control programs.

- Participates in the training of dietetic students.

- Participates in education programs or developmental in-services to improve skill levels.

Qualifications

Qualifying hospital intership experience. Successful completion of requirments for dietetic registration.

• 1 year experience in Clinical Nutrition

• Registered Dietitian

•ADA Registration as Dietitian

•Baccelaureate in Food and Nutrition or Dietetics

Compensation: 43.59 to N/A (USD)

About the Company

BronxCare Health System

Nonprofit teaching hospital system in the Bronx

BronxCare Health System is a nonprofit teaching hospital network serving the South and Central Bronx in New York City. Its Grand Concourse hospital provides emergency, inpatient and specialty care, while the Fulton Avenue site offers psychiatric and addiction treatment alongside a nursing home. Neighborhood practices provide primary and outpatient care, and the system bills patients and their health plans for clinical services. It trains physicians through accredited residency programs and maintains medical school and clinical affiliations with Mount Sinai. With hospital origins dating to 1890, BronxCare is headquartered at 1650 Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1890

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