1/7/2020
Job Title: Contract Renal Dietitian
Name of Employer: Linda Roberts and Associates
Location of Office: Current account is located in South Bend, IN
Part Time- Dietitian provides Clinical Dialysis Nutrition Services in long term care facility providing ‘in house’ Dialysis.
Will require one to two visits per month. This is a Permanent position which offers flexibility and an opportunity to expand your clinical skills.
Responsibilities: Visit facility monthly. Gather data from facility and dialysis EMR’s. Evaluate and review dialysis labs with residents via nutrition report card. Provide any needed nutrition education. Interface with nursing and nephrologist to determine appropriate interventions. Document in EMR monthly, completing required Comprehensive Assessments and nutrition related Plan of Care. Attend monthly Plan of Care conference in person or via telephone. Complete required QAPI reports.
Qualifications: Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Licensed in Illinois
Minimum: One year experience in the clinical setting as required by CMS regulations.
Dialysis experience preferred though not required.
Rate of Pay: Negotiable
Contact info: Send resume or call:
Donna Zolecki, RDN
Dietitian Resource Manager
630-688-3961
dzolecki@rdoffice.net
12/4/2019
Senior Care Partners PACE: Lead Registered Dietitian
Primary Purpose : Responsible for supervising all Registered Dietitians within Senior Care Partners PACE. This role will be a working lead with a smaller caseload. Given that, they will provide nutritional care and education to Senior Care Partners PACE participants. This includes evaluating the participant’s nutritional status, developing and implementing nutritional care plans, assessing nutrient requirements and evaluating effectiveness of nutritional care. Responsible for communicating nutritional status to the physicians and IDT Members.
Accountability Chart Key Roles
Qualifications
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Teledoc, HelpNet, and company paid life insurance and AD&D at $50,000 each, with the option to purchase additional voluntary insurances – STD, LTD, AI, CI, and additional life and AD&D. Our employees are eligible the first of the month following 30 days of service. All salaried staff receive 20 days of PTO accrued during the year, and non-exempt staff receive 18 days, in which is accrued right away. Employees may start contributing to our 403(b) immediately, and after one year of service the company will match up to 3%. After 90 days of employment full-time employees are eligible for an 8 hour floating holiday, and receive one each calendar year thereafter. All full-time employees receive the six major paid holidays.
Senior Care Partners PACE provides services in our clinic and day center, as well as in the home. More information about our non-traditional model of care can be obtained by viewing our website at www.seniorcarepartnersMI.org.
Apply at: https://www.seniorcarepartnersmi.org/new-career/?gnk=job&gni=8a78859e6eaa3a44016ec7fe60f750e5&gns=Indeed+Free
12/1/2019
Location:
BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital
Title:
Clinical Dietitian - Diabetes Education for Maternal Fetal Medicine Office
Shift: First Shift
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Responsible for providing sound nutrition care for a variety of patients including geriatric, adult, adolescent, pediatrics and neonatal. In providing sound nutrition care, the Dietitian serves as a member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and assesses nutrition needs; develops and implements nutrition care plans; evaluates and reports the results appropriately; interprets, evaluates and utilizes pertinent and current research related to nutrition care; and coordinates activities according to department policies and procedures and the goals for the healthcare team. The Dietitian is accountable for setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and promoting the achievement of patient outcomes. In addition to working with the healthcare team, the Dietitian will interact with families.
The Clinical Dietitian Diabetes Educator is responsible for providing medical nutrition therapy services and/or diabetes self-management education to patients and/or families. Interacts with other health care team members to plan and deliver appropriate patient care in an efficient, cost effective manner. Works at the highest level, utilizing a team-based approach, to ensure that patients have the full attention of a dedicated team of health care providers who work together to manage their care, while supporting diversity and cultural factors. Responsible for staff, patient and community education programs, individual or group, as needed and is an active participant in improving the health and well-being of our community. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.
Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Nutrition, or Dietetics required
Additional education/experience may be required depending on specific department
Registration from the American Dietetic Association required with 1 year of hire
Additional certification or progress toward certification completion may be required dependent on an individual's specific position
• Demonstrate a high degree of competency with computers, including the ability to use an Electronic Medical Record reporting system (training will be provided)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Must possess excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to manage several projects simultaneously
Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.
The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.
• Determines the organization’s nutrition screening criteria and reviews medical records of individual patients to identify patients with increased nutritional risk including in-patients on assigned units, patients with scheduled visits in assigned clinics, and patients scheduled for out-patient nutrition counseling.
• Identifies on-going risk for nutritional problems through regular review medical records of anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; documentation of feeding skills; records of parenteral, enteral, and oral intake, diagnosis, or presence of chronic diseases or conditions associated with nutritional risk throughout patient’s hospitalization and out-patient’s course of treatment.
• Documents nutritional assessment by evaluation and interpretation of nutritional intake data; physical, anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; normal, immature and dysfunctional and behavioral aspects of feedings skills; and clinical signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiency, inadequacy, excess or toxicity.
• Establishes and documents nutritional plan of care for individual patients by identifying nutritional problems and prescribing nutrition interventions that are age and disease specific, and incorporating these into the patients’ overall plans of care.
• Reviews medical record and observes patient for response to nutritional plan of care and for changes that indicate unresolved or presence of new nutrition problem(s) and adjusts nutritional aspects of the patient’s plan of care accordingly.
• Maintains knowledge of dietary guidelines and nutritional standards of care in health and disease and applies these guidelines to patient care and patient education.
• Assesses patient/family teaching needs and develops and documents a teaching plan with patient focused outcomes identified.
• Participates in developing and documenting a plan for discharge. Maintains knowledge of progression toward discharge and updates nutrition plan as necessary.
• Documents plan for follow up with qualifying and/or quantifying statement (identifies what, when and where follow-up, if any, will occur).
• Provides phone follow-up when indicated and assists in the continuity of care with primary care providers and dietitians providing follow-up care.
• Reviews medical records of individual patients to collect and analyze nutrition related data for Process Improvement and/or Compliance Review.
Apply at: https://bronsonhg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/newhires/job/Bronson-Methodist-Hospital/Clinical-Dietitian---Diabetes-Education-for-Maternal-Fetal-Medicine-Office_JOB12596?source=Indeed.com
11/12/2019
Borgess Clinical Dietetic Externship
Hello everyone! It is that time of year for our next round of externship applications! Borgess will be accepting applications for our next cycle of externs. See below for details.
Purpose
The Borgess Clinical Nutrition team will be offering a structured program for undergraduate dietetic students designed to provide valuable experiences in the acute care hospital setting. In an effort to create a mutually beneficial relationship we have designed expectations and guidelines that will assist in fostering a symbiotic relationship.
Expectations of Student
· Minimum commitment of at least 3 hours once weekly totaling 100 hours per term
· Possible extension pending needs of team
· Afforded the opportunity to shadow clinical staff
· Shadowing will include exposure to NCP with ADIME format, complete nutrition focused physical exam including abdominal exams with discussion of findings, malnutrition diagnosis, nutrition support, and interdisciplinary rounds and interventions for a variety of patient populations and disease states.
· Possibility of observation of surgical procedures at bedside and in operating room depending on availability and interest.
· Outpatient shadowing will include observation of one-to-one motivational interviewing and counseling, as well as group class teaching.
· Assigned 1 or more Quality Improvement projects
· Projects may include gathering and analyzing data, assessing patients, refining processes or other assignments.
· Opportunity to present findings to clinical and medical staff.
· Possibility of published research with assigned projects.
· Assist with community cooking classes and other community outreach as available
· Responsibilities may include selecting recipes, preparing food, and assisting dietitian at cooking class.
· Other community interventions as assigned
· Other responsibilities as agreed upon by the student and clinical staff
Start Dates
Three cycles of students will be accepted each year
• The number of student selected per cycle will depend on the needs of the business and the applicants qualifications
• The Fall Cycle will start the week of September 1, 2019
• The Winter Extern will start the week of January 1, 2020
• The Summer Extern will start the week of May 1, 2020
How to Apply
• Resumes and a statement of interest may be sent to tpage@iamtouchpoint.com
• The application deadline for the Fall Cycle is August 1, 2019
• The application deadline for the Winter Cycle is December 1, 2020
• The application deadline for the Summer Cycle is April 1, 2020
• Students will not be accepted to work with Clinical Nutrition team at other times during the year o Student are welcome to apply to work in other hospital positions via Volunteer Services
• Applications will be reviewed, selected students will be interviewed
• Students will be notified at least one week prior to their expected start date
Job Title: Contract Renal Dietitian
Name of Employer: Linda Roberts and Associates
Location of Office: Current account is located in South Bend, IN
Part Time- Dietitian provides Clinical Dialysis Nutrition Services in long term care facility providing ‘in house’ Dialysis.
Will require one to two visits per month. This is a Permanent position which offers flexibility and an opportunity to expand your clinical skills.
Responsibilities: Visit facility monthly. Gather data from facility and dialysis EMR’s. Evaluate and review dialysis labs with residents via nutrition report card. Provide any needed nutrition education. Interface with nursing and nephrologist to determine appropriate interventions. Document in EMR monthly, completing required Comprehensive Assessments and nutrition related Plan of Care. Attend monthly Plan of Care conference in person or via telephone. Complete required QAPI reports.
Qualifications: Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Licensed in Illinois
Minimum: One year experience in the clinical setting as required by CMS regulations.
Dialysis experience preferred though not required.
Rate of Pay: Negotiable
Contact info: Send resume or call:
Donna Zolecki, RDN
Dietitian Resource Manager
630-688-3961
dzolecki@rdoffice.net
12/4/2019
Senior Care Partners PACE: Lead Registered Dietitian
Primary Purpose : Responsible for supervising all Registered Dietitians within Senior Care Partners PACE. This role will be a working lead with a smaller caseload. Given that, they will provide nutritional care and education to Senior Care Partners PACE participants. This includes evaluating the participant’s nutritional status, developing and implementing nutritional care plans, assessing nutrient requirements and evaluating effectiveness of nutritional care. Responsible for communicating nutritional status to the physicians and IDT Members.
Accountability Chart Key Roles
- LMA over direct reports
- Assess, develop and implement nutritional care plans
- Monitor meals in day center and in home
- Manage therapeutic and special diets
- Drives inclusion & employee engagement within team.
- Assist with the recruitment and selection process.
- Coaching, mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Responsible for performance management of direct reports.
- Utilize the Entrepreneurial Operating System (‘EOS Worldwide” by Gino Wickman) business model to drive focus, discipline and accountability for your team.
- Conducts initial and periodic assessments, identifies those at nutritional risk and develops a specific plan of care for the nutritional needs of participants per policy. Reassess every 6 months as needed
- Functions as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT), communicates participant changes to team members, participates in IDT meetings, and the development of the participant plan of care
- Conducts home visits for initial assessments and as needs are identified
- Provides nutritional education/consulting with clients/family regarding special dietary regimens and nutritional requirements as applicable by referral or Academy Nutrition and Dietetics standards
- Acts as a resource to other staff regarding nutritional requirements and education
- Determines most appropriate nutrition intervention for participants needs and maintains supplement/snacking/bag lunch schedule via the Electronic Medical Record System
- Communicates with food service vendor regarding concerns about menu, daily lunch orders and weekly food supply order
- Participates in the coordination of the home nutrition services such as take home meals, supplements in the home, Meals on Wheels and emergency meals
- Assists in monitoring meals, including intake, diet compliance, and tray accuracy
- Responsible for the management of therapeutic diets, including modification of the general menu to meet individual participant needs and physician orders
- Maintains sanitation of food preparation and kitchen area through annual inspections and as needed
- Refers participants to appropriate community agencies or facilities, acts as a liaison with such organizations and as advocate for participants
- Participates in developing and maintaining internal Nutrition Service policies Keeps leader informed of problems or issues.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree from an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics accredited institution with a major in food and nutrition or dietetics; Master’s Degree preferred.
- Minimum of one year leadership experience preferred.
- Completion of an accredited Dietetic internship with a minimum of 1,200 hours of supervised practice hours.
- Minimum of one year of experience working with the frail, elderly, or long-term care population.
- Demonstrate our core values of compassion, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.
- Champion of Senior Care Partners PACE philosophy.
- Reliable transportation; current valid Michigan driver’s license, and car insurance.
- Possess current CPR certification by AHA or willing and able to obtain as offered by Senior Care Partners PACE.
- Immunizations and vaccines must be current or medical documentation must be provided from a medical provider with reason (s) to request waiver. (Hepatitis B, TB, PPD specifically and Flu)
- Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
- Must possess the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures, etc., that are necessary for providing quality care.
- Possess the ability to collaborate effectively with other IDT members.
- Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult participants.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Teledoc, HelpNet, and company paid life insurance and AD&D at $50,000 each, with the option to purchase additional voluntary insurances – STD, LTD, AI, CI, and additional life and AD&D. Our employees are eligible the first of the month following 30 days of service. All salaried staff receive 20 days of PTO accrued during the year, and non-exempt staff receive 18 days, in which is accrued right away. Employees may start contributing to our 403(b) immediately, and after one year of service the company will match up to 3%. After 90 days of employment full-time employees are eligible for an 8 hour floating holiday, and receive one each calendar year thereafter. All full-time employees receive the six major paid holidays.
Senior Care Partners PACE provides services in our clinic and day center, as well as in the home. More information about our non-traditional model of care can be obtained by viewing our website at www.seniorcarepartnersMI.org.
Apply at: https://www.seniorcarepartnersmi.org/new-career/?gnk=job&gni=8a78859e6eaa3a44016ec7fe60f750e5&gns=Indeed+Free
12/1/2019
Location:
BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital
Title:
Clinical Dietitian - Diabetes Education for Maternal Fetal Medicine Office
Shift: First Shift
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Responsible for providing sound nutrition care for a variety of patients including geriatric, adult, adolescent, pediatrics and neonatal. In providing sound nutrition care, the Dietitian serves as a member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and assesses nutrition needs; develops and implements nutrition care plans; evaluates and reports the results appropriately; interprets, evaluates and utilizes pertinent and current research related to nutrition care; and coordinates activities according to department policies and procedures and the goals for the healthcare team. The Dietitian is accountable for setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and promoting the achievement of patient outcomes. In addition to working with the healthcare team, the Dietitian will interact with families.
The Clinical Dietitian Diabetes Educator is responsible for providing medical nutrition therapy services and/or diabetes self-management education to patients and/or families. Interacts with other health care team members to plan and deliver appropriate patient care in an efficient, cost effective manner. Works at the highest level, utilizing a team-based approach, to ensure that patients have the full attention of a dedicated team of health care providers who work together to manage their care, while supporting diversity and cultural factors. Responsible for staff, patient and community education programs, individual or group, as needed and is an active participant in improving the health and well-being of our community. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.
Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Nutrition, or Dietetics required
Additional education/experience may be required depending on specific department
Registration from the American Dietetic Association required with 1 year of hire
Additional certification or progress toward certification completion may be required dependent on an individual's specific position
• Demonstrate a high degree of competency with computers, including the ability to use an Electronic Medical Record reporting system (training will be provided)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Must possess excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to manage several projects simultaneously
Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.
The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.
• Determines the organization’s nutrition screening criteria and reviews medical records of individual patients to identify patients with increased nutritional risk including in-patients on assigned units, patients with scheduled visits in assigned clinics, and patients scheduled for out-patient nutrition counseling.
• Identifies on-going risk for nutritional problems through regular review medical records of anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; documentation of feeding skills; records of parenteral, enteral, and oral intake, diagnosis, or presence of chronic diseases or conditions associated with nutritional risk throughout patient’s hospitalization and out-patient’s course of treatment.
• Documents nutritional assessment by evaluation and interpretation of nutritional intake data; physical, anthropometric, biochemical and laboratory data; normal, immature and dysfunctional and behavioral aspects of feedings skills; and clinical signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiency, inadequacy, excess or toxicity.
• Establishes and documents nutritional plan of care for individual patients by identifying nutritional problems and prescribing nutrition interventions that are age and disease specific, and incorporating these into the patients’ overall plans of care.
• Reviews medical record and observes patient for response to nutritional plan of care and for changes that indicate unresolved or presence of new nutrition problem(s) and adjusts nutritional aspects of the patient’s plan of care accordingly.
• Maintains knowledge of dietary guidelines and nutritional standards of care in health and disease and applies these guidelines to patient care and patient education.
• Assesses patient/family teaching needs and develops and documents a teaching plan with patient focused outcomes identified.
• Participates in developing and documenting a plan for discharge. Maintains knowledge of progression toward discharge and updates nutrition plan as necessary.
• Documents plan for follow up with qualifying and/or quantifying statement (identifies what, when and where follow-up, if any, will occur).
• Provides phone follow-up when indicated and assists in the continuity of care with primary care providers and dietitians providing follow-up care.
• Reviews medical records of individual patients to collect and analyze nutrition related data for Process Improvement and/or Compliance Review.
Apply at: https://bronsonhg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/newhires/job/Bronson-Methodist-Hospital/Clinical-Dietitian---Diabetes-Education-for-Maternal-Fetal-Medicine-Office_JOB12596?source=Indeed.com
11/12/2019
Borgess Clinical Dietetic Externship
Hello everyone! It is that time of year for our next round of externship applications! Borgess will be accepting applications for our next cycle of externs. See below for details.
Purpose
The Borgess Clinical Nutrition team will be offering a structured program for undergraduate dietetic students designed to provide valuable experiences in the acute care hospital setting. In an effort to create a mutually beneficial relationship we have designed expectations and guidelines that will assist in fostering a symbiotic relationship.
Expectations of Student
· Minimum commitment of at least 3 hours once weekly totaling 100 hours per term
· Possible extension pending needs of team
· Afforded the opportunity to shadow clinical staff
· Shadowing will include exposure to NCP with ADIME format, complete nutrition focused physical exam including abdominal exams with discussion of findings, malnutrition diagnosis, nutrition support, and interdisciplinary rounds and interventions for a variety of patient populations and disease states.
· Possibility of observation of surgical procedures at bedside and in operating room depending on availability and interest.
· Outpatient shadowing will include observation of one-to-one motivational interviewing and counseling, as well as group class teaching.
· Assigned 1 or more Quality Improvement projects
· Projects may include gathering and analyzing data, assessing patients, refining processes or other assignments.
· Opportunity to present findings to clinical and medical staff.
· Possibility of published research with assigned projects.
· Assist with community cooking classes and other community outreach as available
· Responsibilities may include selecting recipes, preparing food, and assisting dietitian at cooking class.
· Other community interventions as assigned
· Other responsibilities as agreed upon by the student and clinical staff
Start Dates
Three cycles of students will be accepted each year
• The number of student selected per cycle will depend on the needs of the business and the applicants qualifications
• The Fall Cycle will start the week of September 1, 2019
• The Winter Extern will start the week of January 1, 2020
• The Summer Extern will start the week of May 1, 2020
How to Apply
• Resumes and a statement of interest may be sent to tpage@iamtouchpoint.com
• The application deadline for the Fall Cycle is August 1, 2019
• The application deadline for the Winter Cycle is December 1, 2020
• The application deadline for the Summer Cycle is April 1, 2020
• Students will not be accepted to work with Clinical Nutrition team at other times during the year o Student are welcome to apply to work in other hospital positions via Volunteer Services
• Applications will be reviewed, selected students will be interviewed
• Students will be notified at least one week prior to their expected start date
