PRN, First Shift
The Registered Dietitian provides medical nutrition therapy and nutrition education to patients across the care continuum. This role performs nutrition assessments, develops therapeutic diet plans, and collaborates with the healthcare team to support optimal patient outcomes while ensuring compliance with regulatory and clinical standards.
Responsibilities:
Perform nutrition assessments and develop individualized nutrition care plans
Implement the Nutrition Care Process to provide medical nutrition therapy
Monitor patient response to therapeutic diets and modify care plans as needed
Provide nutrition counseling and education to patients, families, and caregivers
Collaborate with physicians, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare teams to coordinate patient care
Document nutrition care activities accurately in the medical record
Participate in quality improvement initiatives and regulatory compliance activities
Assist with training and orientation of dietetic interns or staff as needed
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or related field from an ACEND-accredited program
No experience required (one year experience preferred)
Registered Dietitian credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) or registry eligible
Must obtain CDR registration within 6 months of hire if not already credentialed
Licensed Dietitian in the state of Kentucky (must obtain within 3 months of hire or within 3 months after receiving credentials)
Benefits:
Preventive Plan
Retirement Plans
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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.
