Job Description

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The Inova Health System is seeking a self-motivated, high performing Dietitian Registered to provide world-class nutrition care for our outpatient population. This PRN role allows the opportunity to provide nutrition education to patients of the General Internal Medicine Group.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• Dietetic Internship or equivalent.
• Zero - one year of recent hospital experience and/or previous clinical nutrition practice experience, two year management.

Education:

• Bachelor\'s degree

Certification:

• Registered Dietitian (RD)
• BLS - American Heart Association within 3 months of hire

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About Us:

Inova is Northern Virginia\'s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Our mission is to provide world-class healthcare - every time, every touch - to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve. Inova\'s 18,000 team members serve more than 2 million individuals annually through an integrated network of hospitals, primary and specialty care practices, emergency and urgent care centers, outpatient services and destination institutes.

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