Registered Dietitian - Inpatient

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Job Title

Registered Dietitian - Inpatient

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Fairview Hospital

Department

DDSI Nutrition-Digestive Disease Institute

Job Code

T23012

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:00am-4:30pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar care at one of the top healthcare organizations in the nation.

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 stats between 7:00am and 9:00am, from 7:00am to 3:00pm, 8:00am to 4:00pm or 9:00am to 5:00pm.  

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. 

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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