Location
Fairfax, VA | United States
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Job Description
Want to come join a highly clinical focused nutrition team? Here is your chance. Join our inpatient clinical nutrition team and become an integral part of the interdisciplinary team. Our team is motivated and focused on improving patient care. If you're interested in advancing your clinical skill set and gaining the respect of your peers- this is the team to join!
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is seeking
Registered Dietician to join the nutritional support team. This position part-time (20 hrs/week) working Monday, Thursday, Friday and rotating weekends every 5 weeks. We offer great pay based on experience
! Plus, don't forget about our other amazing benefits and perks!
Inova Benefits and Perks: - Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
- Tuition reimbursement and Educational Assistance
- Student loan assistance - up to $10,000!
- State-of-the-art medical and training facilities
- Paid parental leave for birth/adoption of a child
- 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!
See Full List of Benefits Here: 2024 INOVA BENEFITS GUIDE
Requirements for consideration:
- Newly certified Registered Dieticians must hold a master's degree.
- Dietetic internship or equivalent
- Registered Dietitian (RD)
- Basic Life Support through AHA within 3 months of hire
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.
About Us We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 24,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.
Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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