Part Time Clinical Dietitian AdventHealth Palm Coast 

Location Address: 60 Memorial Medical Pkwy, Palm Coast, FL 32164

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Palm Coast

• Immediate health benefits
• Career growth and advancement potential
• High quality of life with low cost of living on the shores of sunny Daytona Beach, FL.

Work Hours/Shift:

Part Time, Day Shift

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Evaluates and monitors nutritional status of hospitalized patients ranging from newborn to geriatric populations as well as cultural, religious, and ethnic concerns, using established standards of care.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan for nutrition intervention in accordance with the patientâ™s medical program goals and objectives, nutrition prescription, and self-management training. 
• Utilizes hospital policies and procedures to provide timely and appropriate nutrition intervention and therapy within the scope of practice defined by the hospital.
• Provides appropriate documentation that summarizes the nutrition care plan in the patientâ™s medical record, including nutrition assessment, diagnosis plan, implementation, and progress toward goals.
• Identifies educational needs and provides current, hospital approved, nutrition education that is sensitive to the patientâ™s learning need, condition, readiness to learn, literacy, hearing language and age.
• Serves as the nutrition expert, educator and liaison to medical staff and allied health personnel.
• Participates in community projects and education as assigned.
• Assists in achieving compliance with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards, with other accrediting organizations, and with regulatory agency standards, including state and federal.
• Participates in planning and developing nutrition-related policies, procedures, and goals.
• Participates in the hospitalâ™s performance improvement processes.

What You Will Need:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Completion of a didactic program in dietetics and supervised practice program approved by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND).
• Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics, foods and nutrition, or related area required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:

• One year of experience in acute care setting preferred.
• Experience using Cerner electronic medical record.
• Acute Care and Rehabilitation experience.

• Masterâ™s degree in Food and Nutrition, Dietetics, Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutrition, or nutrition related field.