*Sign on bonus eligible*
This position is responsible for providing medical nutrition therapy to patients, employees, and the community in accordance with the mission, vision, and values of Baptist Health. This position ensures patient satisfaction, quality care, regulatory compliance, and good public relations are achieved through the
safe and efficient use of resources.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Direct Patient Care - Establishes and implements a standardized Nutrition Care Process to identify and treat those patients requiring Medical Nutrition Therapy.
Performs and documents nutrition assessments.
Monitors/evaluates patient tolerance to therapeutic diets when appropriate.
Maintains pertinent patient data necessary to recommend, prescribe, or modify therapeutic diets as needed to meet the nutritional needs of the patients.
Writes/approves orders for therapeutic nutrition, dietary supplements, and nutritional supplements.
Develops and provides nutrition education/counseling to patients, patient family, and patient caretakers.
Incorporates current evidence-based research into practice.
Collaborates with other hospital services to plan and implement patient care as necessary in meeting the nutritional needs of patients (e.g. medical staff, nursing, pharmacy, social work services, etc.).
Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:
Bachelor's Degree required - Degree must be recognized accredited University or College approved by the Accreditation Council for Education and Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) or the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).
At least one year experience as a registered dietitian preferred.
Current registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) or registry eligible (must obtain within 6 months of
hire).
Licensed Dietitian in the state of practice (must obtain within 3 months of hire or within 3 months after obtaining
credentials).
Work Experience
Relevant Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
