Registered Dietitian PRN

Inova Alexandria Hospital is seeking a Registered Dietitian that is a self-motivated, team player to join the clinical nutrition team. This position is a PRN position and has the opportunity to cover patients at all Inova Hospitals allowing for up to 40 hours per week coverage if there is a coverage need. Hours are 8-4:30 Mon-Fri with 1 Saturday coverage per month.

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!

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.