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Description ScionHealth is committed to a culture of service excellence as demonstrated by our employees' adherence to the service excellence principles of Pride, Teamwork, Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Fun, Professionalism, and Responsibility. As our most acute level of care, our specialty hospitals offer the same critical care patients receive in a traditional hospital or intensive care unit, but for an extended recovery period. Our clinicians play a vital role in the recovery process for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients. Job Summary: The Registered Dietitian is responsible for the planning and implementation of the nutrition care of the patients in a $ccordance with applicable federal, state, and local standards and regulations, clinical guidelines, and policies and procedures. The dietitian, in collaboration with the Culinary Services Manager, ensures high quality nutrition care is provided to the patients through oral, enteral, and parenteral nutrition therapy. Essential Functions Leadership: Completes annual competency testing and maintains professional growth and development portfolio to maintain registration and licensure/certification. Performs job based on applicable federal, state, and local regulations, company policies and procedures, and evidenced based clinical guidelines. Performs clinical duties within the defined scope of practice. Serves on various committees as required by company standards, regulations, and/or appointment by immediate supervisor. Participates in developing and implementing policies and procedures related to nutrition care of the patient. Direct Patient Care: Conducts initial and reassessments on all patients admitted to the hospital. Ensure proper completion of documentation (assessments, care plans, education, discharge planning). Prescribes nutrition therapy to meet estimated needs and monitors tolerance. Provides ongoing reassessment to ensure optimal nutrition therapy is provided. Participates with interdisciplinary team meetings to develop, implement, and monitor the nutrition care plan. Interviews patients, family members, legal representatives, and/or significant others to obtain diet history, food preferences, and other pertinent information needed to develop and/or update plan of care. Advocates for patient to protect and promote patients' rights, and accommodate individual needs and cultural/religious preferences. Involves the patient/family in planning objectives and goals for the patient. Conducts nutrition education individually and in classes to patients, families, staff, and community as appropriate. Conducts meal rounds to ensure patients are receiving therapy that meets patients' need. Coordinates with culinary department to resolve patients' concerns or dissatisfactions with diet or meal service. Menu Management (if Culinary Services manager is not a Registered Dietitian, then RD provides the following oversight): Provides oversight to the menu management process ensuring all aspects of the menu flow process is completed per policies and procedures. Reviews and approves all patient menus in the facility; must approve any substitutions provided to patients. Reviews and approves all nutritional data posted in the cafe. Provides oversight for the transcription of diet orders in the department to ensure accuracy. Ensures all patient snack orders are checked against the diet order and distributed to patients timely. Provides training to all staff as needed on therapeutic diets, menu process, food allergens, or other related topics. Is proficient in the operation of the menu management software. Quality Assurance / Performance Improvement: Participates in the hospital's performance improvement program by conducting, aggregating, trending, and acting on