Clinical RD II for Home Health.

Job Summary:

The Clinical Dietitian II works closely with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to coordinate evidence based medical nutrition therapy that is integrated and compatible with the patient focused medical goals.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Application of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP), through nutrition focused physical exam. Nutrition/malnutrition assessment, nutrition diagnosis, interventions, monitoring and evaluating of the patient's progress.
• The Clinical Dietitian II uses practice-specific dietetics and as available and evidence based practice protocols/nutrition practice guidelines to help determine nutrition intervention.
• The Clinical Dietitian II has extensive knowledge in the area of specialty practice, working with and applying this knowledge to the most complex of patients >50% of the time e.g., in Nutrition Support Services (TPN – Total Parenteral Nutrition management/ordering to include determining macronutrient and micronutrient composition of parenteral nutrition and performing nutrition focused physical examinations to determine malnutrition status.
• The Clinical Dietitian II performs business functions, such as management of resources in a cost-effective manner, and participates in compliance and quality performance improvement efforts to ensure that nutrition care is safe and effective.
• The Clinical Dietitian II is an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, serving as a resource on nutrition management of the specialty practice area(s) is involved in team conferences provides nutrition-related in-services and contributes to the development and revision of hospital policies.
• The Clinical Dietitian II also may be involved in community-based nutrition programs and maintains professional competency and skills required for professional practice.
• The Clinical Dietitian II precepts interns and supports, models and trains clinical dietitians in the core behaviors and responsibilities of the department and organization.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Assists in achieving compliance with the Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), or other accrediting agency standards to continuously improve the safety and quality of care to the public and to the organization’s performance improvement.
• Creates/updates evidence based protocols in area of specialty and trains others in order to ensure medical nutrition therapy practices are current and meet established guidelines.
• Participates in clinical research, on-the-job training, or QI projects as pertains to clinical specialty. Leads efforts to continually understand and measure quality of the specialty area practice in terms of structures, process, content, and outcomes. Designs and tests interventions to change process and systems of specialty practice area with the objective of improving quality outcomes. Serves on cross functional quality teams.

Credential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an ACEND accredited university
• Current CDR
• NC state license

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Keywords:  RD, Registered Dietitian, Dietetics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, NC, Home Health, Permanent Position, Fulltime, FT. 

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