Registered Dietitian - Outpatient PRN

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Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.   

People seek guidance from a Registered Dietitian (RD) for many reasons, whether to maximize wellness, learn healthier eating habits or decrease the risk of chronic diseases. No matter the reason, you will help these patients develop personal diet plans to achieve their goals. 

This is a PRN role. A caregiver in this position works varying hours between 8:00am and 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education and counseling to patients. 

• Implement nutritional care plans, communicate plans, establish a follow-up system and maintain documentation. 

• Write changes for diet orders, initiate nutrient intake assessments, assess patients for nutritional deficiencies, evaluate fluids and electrolytes and review laboratory and clinical progress notes. 

• Inform physicians of patient nutritional status and need for diet changes.  

• Create and revise education materials, participate in program development and develop, implement and market services.    

• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a related field 

• Current licensure as a Licensed Dietitian (LD)  

• Active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)  

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• One year of experience as a Registered Dietitian in Clinical Nutrition OR successful completion of CCF Dietetic Internship Program 

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
• Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

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