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The Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I serves to provide nutritional services for liver, kidney, and pancreas disease transplant recipients and living donors throughout the stages of transplantation. These disease processes require nutritional intervention and management to improve and maintain nutritional status. The Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I is responsible for updating, and implementing assessment protocols, nutrition education programs & materials, and nutrition-focused lifestyle intervention programs that are necessary for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients at nutritional risk. Obtains and interprets medical information pertinent to the patient's nutritional care to determine risk and assess nutritional status. Includes assessment for presence of malnutrition by utilizing nutrition focused physical exam, frailty index tests, motivational interviewing, and completing chart reviews. Develops and implements an individualized plan for medical nutrition therapy in accordance with the patient's medical goals and objectives. The Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I is also responsible for providing professional guidance and education in nutritional management and diet counseling of patients for physicians, allied health professionals, health science students, and entry-level dietitians. The Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I provides assessments and/or educates patients while they are admitted in the hospital, if indicated. They will collaborate with members of the health care team to provide medical nutrition therapy, identify patients at high nutrition risk based on criteria outlined by the Hospital, assess nutrition needs and identify nutrient requirements according to age and disease specific needs of patients, develop and implement the nutrition care plan, evaluate and monitor the effectiveness and outcomes of medical nutrition therapy intervention, and provides nutrition education to patient and family members to accomplish patient goals and learning objectives. The Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I will work closely with the abdominal transplant nutrition team to assist with coordination of nutrition care with the multidisciplinary team, hospital, university departments/programs, and outside organizations. Examples include aligning and implementing nutrition goals with care teams and working cross collaboratively with stakeholders on nutrition-focused programs and outreach. Additionally, the Outpatient Transplant Dietitian I participates in quality improvement projects, research projects, supervises nutrition assistants, and mentors health science interns/students, as well as, actively assesses, evaluates and maintains professional development and competencies.
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Full Time
$70k-85k (estimate)
10/01/2023
06/04/2024
keckmedicine.org
Los Angeles, CA
1,000 - 3,000