Dietitian

Optimal nutrition is an important part of good health and a patient’s recovery. It is just one of the ways that Legacy strives to make life better for others. The Registered Dietitian provides their clinical nutrition expertise through nutrition assessment, education, and interventions to help improve patient outcomes.

If you are a dietitian who enjoys working with patients and thrives being part of an interdisciplinary care team, we invite you to consider this opportunity.

Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center is the South Metro area’s full-service medical center, with the friendly feel of a community hospital and the skill and services of a much larger medical center. Among our specialties: stroke, chest pain, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, cancer care and orthopedic and total joint surgery. Plus, a birth center and breast health center.

The Clinical Dietitian works closely with the interdisciplinary health care team to provide clinical nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy that are integrated and compatible with the patient’s medical program goals and objectives.  Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement nutrition services and medical nutrition therapy using established standards of care and practice protocols/guidelines.
• Assess patients for malnutrition.
• Order writing privileges per CMS guidelines, state regulation, and hospital policy.
• Manage resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Participate in performance improvement efforts.
• Maintain professional competency and skills required for professional practice.

Education:

• Completion of a Bachelor’s or graduate level degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent field from an accredited university/college required.

• Completion of a Dietitian Internship or Coordinated Program approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) required.

Skills:         

• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to patients, public, physicians and interdisciplinary health care team. 
• Able to function independently on assigned patient care units. 
• General knowledge of nutrient analysis, word processing and spreadsheet software. 
• Basic familiarity with computers preferred.

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