What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ambulatory Registered Dietitian PRN position at Inova Careers?
Inova Health Center 8081 - Fairfax East Supporting Inova Schar Cancer/Peterson Life with Cancer and Inova Cardiopulmonary Rehab Centers at Inova Loudoun, Fair Oaks, Mount Vernon, Fairfax and Alexandria (PROC, Mark Center and Landmark) are seeking a Registered Dietitian that is a self-motivated, team player to join the clinical nutrition team. This position is a PRN (on-call) position and will cover patients at all Inova Life with Cancer Centers and Inova Cardiopulmonary Rehab for intermittent staff relief. Working hours are Mon-Fri from 9:00am-5:00pm.
Inova PRN Benefits and Perks:
- State-of-the-art medical and training facilities
- Retirement benefits with match from day one
- Free Parking to all employees
- Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more!
Registered Dietitian Job Responsibilities:
- The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
- Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
- Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
- Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
- Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
- Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
- Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
- Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
- Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree minimum if licensed before 1/1/2024; Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024 must hold a master’s degree
- Experience: Dietetic internship or equivalent
- Previous oncology experience or dietetic clinical specialty experience, highly preferred
- Certification:
- Registered Dietitian (RD) required within 3 Months of hire
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association required within 3 Months of hire
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cardiopulmonary and/or oncology experience preferred