Legacy Health is seeking a RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for a job in VANCOUVER, Washington.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: Ongoing
- Employment Type: Staff
Overview:
Optimal nutrition is an important part of good health and a patient's recovery. It is just one of the ways that Legacy strives to make life better for others. The Registered Dietitian provides their clinical nutrition expertise through nutrition assessment, education, and interventions to help improve patient outcomes. If you are a dietitian who enjoys working with patients and thrives being part of an interdisciplinary care team, we invite you to consider this opportunity.
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center is Southwest Washington's most modern hospital, offering the latest technology in a setting designed for comfort and care for the whole family. We feature innovations in joint replacement, robotic surgery, pelvic health for women, cancer care, intensive care for newborns, neurosurgery, medical care for children and more.
Responsibilities:
Patient Care
Screens patients for nutrition risk.
Conducts a nutrition assessment for patients at nutrition risk and for dietitian consults. Obtains timely and appropriate data and analyzes/interprets data based on evidence-based standards.
Assesses patients for malnutrition through nutrition focused physical exams and other nutritionally relevant patient data.
Nutrition Order writing privileges per CMS guidelines, state regulation, and hospital policy.
Practices standardized nutrition charting through the nutrition care process.
Develops and implements an individualized plan for nutrition intervention in accordance with the patient's medical program goals and objective, nutrition prescription, and self-management training. May require development of a therapeutic plan for specialized nutrition support, including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Utilizes assessment and evaluation techniques that consider the varied needs of age-specific populations as well as cultural, religious and ethnic concerns.
Evaluates the effectiveness and measures progress towards outcomes of medical nutrition therapy interventions. Reassesses nutrition care process and implements changes as indicated.
Communicates with the medical team through interdisciplinary meetings, rounds, and direct dialog.
Provides appropriate documentation, in the electronic medical record, that summarizes the nutrition care plan including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, plan, implementation, and progress toward goals.
Works cooperatively with food service staff to assure conformance to diet prescription.
Demonstrates accountability for the proper use of patients' protected health information.
Business-Related Functions
Maintains productivity standards and practices effective time management and prioritizing of tasks.
Maintains accurate record keeping of daily clinical activities including information for billing.
Manages resources (time and materials) in a cost-effective manner.
Assists in developing and revising patient education materials, clinical forms and practice guidelines.
Supports and promotes LHS infection control, safety, risk management and customer relation programs.
Assists in achieving compliance with JCAHO standards.
Participates in the orientation and training of new dietitians.
Nutrition Education
Assesses educational needs and provides nutrition counseling for individuals and groups.
Evaluates achievement of learning objectives by the patient and/or family. Provides appropriate follow-up in accordance with the patient's treatment goals, referring patients for outpatient counseling, community or home health services as appropriate.
Serves as a resource to medical staff and allied health personnel on nutrition issues.
Assists in the education of dietetic interns.
Conducts in-services and educational presentations to hospital/department staff.
Demonstrates support for Continuous Quality Improvement.
Understands and can verbalize LHS CQI principles.
Identifies and collects performance improvement data, monitors outcomes, and initiates corrective actions.
Participates in LHS CQI efforts.
Participates in planning and developing nutrition-related policies, procedures, and goals.
Professional Development
Maintains dietetic registration, applicable state licensure and continuing education requirements.
Develops and implements an individualized plan for professional growth and development including participation in professional organizations and activities, workshops, seminars, and staff development programs.
Qualifications:
Education:
As required by applicable state licensure.
Skill Requirements:
Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to patients, public, physicians and interdisciplinary health care team. Able to function independently on assigned patient care units. General knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing and spreadsheet software. Basic familiarity with computers preferred.
Legacy's Values In Action:
Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy's Values in Action.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled
Licensure:
Certification/Licensure:
Registered Dietitian required. Applicable state licensure required.
Pay Range: USD $33.26 - USD $47.56/Hr.
Legacy Health Job ID. Posted job title: dietitian
About Legacy Health
Join our team and be a part of creating the gold standard in care safety. Together, we're building the safest environment for giving and receiving care, where both patients and caregivers thrive.
Who is Legacy Health?
Good health for our people, our patients, our communities and our world - these are not just words. They are commitments that form the core of our mission, and we take them seriously. That mission matches a profound and serious footprint: Legacy Health is a locally owned nonprofit, six-hospital health system that also includes a full-service children's hospital, a 24-hour mental and behavioral health services center, and more than 70 primary care, specialty and urgent care clinics, 14,000 employees and nearly 3,000 health care providers.
We provide comprehensive health care services across the Portland and Vancouver metro area and mid-Willamette Valley and have the most five-star ratings for hospitals in the region. From rural areas to urban centers, we play a critical role in the lives of 2.5 million people.
As one of the largest employers in the area, people trust Legacy with their health and livelihoods. That is why Forbes named Legacy one of the best large employers in America in 2023. That vote of trust also demands that we leave a positive mark on our community beyond the hallways of our hospitals and clinics. As a reflective and open-minded organization, we value the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) patient care across our system.
Benefits
- 403b retirement plan
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits