Franciscan Health

Dyer Health Center South

2150 Gettler St Dyer, Indiana 46311

The Clinical Dietitian coordinates the nutritional aspects of patient care in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient settings and serves as a resource for promoting nutrition education within the organization and community. This position performs and documents nutrition assessments for at risk patients identified through nutrition screening. This position assesses nutritional needs and identifies nutrient requirements according to age and disease-specific needs of patients and provides diet education and counseling on therapeutic diets and collaborates with other hospital services to implement the nutrition care plan.

WHO WE ARE

With 12 ministries and access points across Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers that provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.

The PACE program’s vision statement is to provide unmatched, individualized, and joyful care through teamwork that is worthy of praise so that seniors experience the best quality-of-life in their communities. PACE offers seniors and their families the care, nutrition, rehabilitation, transportation, and supportive services they need to remain healthy so that they can live in their own home. Franciscan is known for our mission of caring.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Approves patient menus and nutrition supplements.
• Calculates patients' nutritional needs for oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Maintains pertinent patient data necessary to recommend, prescribe or modify therapeutic diets as needed to meet the nutritional needs of the patients and documents nutrition care plan in the medical record.
• Participates in patient care conferences and collaborate with other hospital services including medical staff, nursing, pharmacy, and social work, to plan and implement patient care as necessary in meeting the nutritional needs of the patients.
• Performs and document nutritional assessments including nutrition-focused physical assessments when applicable and evaluate patient tolerance to therapeutic diets when appropriate.
• Performs nutrition reassessment by monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the nutrition care plan.
• Performs patient access duties; schedules, checks in, checks out, and enter charges for nutrition appointments.
• Plans and implement patient nutrition interventions and establish goals aimed at resolving nutrition-related problems.
• Provides nutrition education and counseling to inpatients, outpatients, their families, caretakers, staff and the community.
• Reviews medical records and interview the patient and their caregivers to collect food and nutrition-related history or client history assessment data.
• Serves as preceptor for dietetic interns and provides on-the-job training for new hires.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree -Dietetics or Nutritional Related Field- Required
• 2 Years Clinical Dietetics Experience - Preferred
• Registered Dietitian (RD)- State Licensing Board - Within 90 Days - Required
• State Certification or Licensure - Within 180 Days - Required

TRAVEL IS REQUIRED:

Up to 20%

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law.

Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights.

Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.

Franciscan provides eligible employees with comprehensive benefit offerings. Find an overview on the benefit section of our career site, jobs.franciscanhealth.org.