Registered Dietician - PRN Days
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TrustPoint Hospital
Murfreesboro, TN, US
Summary
The Registered Dietician assesses patient nutritional needs and develops dietary-care plans while providing counseling to patients and their families. They also monitor food service operations to ensure compliance with safety, sanitation, and quality standards.
Job Description
Overview
PURPOSE STATEMENT:
Serve as expert in the use of food and nutrition to promote health and manage disease.
$33.00 hourly
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
- Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements.
- Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications and food selection and preparation.
- Provide nutritional assessments per facility policy and regulation.
- Review and approve menus developed by the facility.
- Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient.
- Participate in treatment team as appropriate.
- Review and approve facility diet manual annually in conjunction with medical staff.
- Promote better health by speaking to groups about diet, nutrition and the relationship between good eating habits and preventing or managing specific diseases.
- Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards as needed.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited University in Dietetics, Nutrition or similar field acceptable for licensure.
LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:
- Current registered dietician or registration as required by state or eligible for endorsement by the state in which the facility provides services.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.
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TrustPoint Hospital is a state-of-the-art treatment center that provides medical and psychiatric services for adults and seniors. Located in a quiet setting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, TrustPoint focuses on providing patients with the emotional, social, medical, and cultural care they need to heal from a plethora of conditions.
The staff at TrustPoint consists of a physician, nurse, patient care technician, physical therapist, occupational therapist, respiratory therapist, case manager, speech-language pathologist, psychiatrist, and neuropsychologist. Each member of the team is highly skilled and experienced in caring for the many conditions treated at TrustPoint, including but not limited to, the following:
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Delusional Disorders
- Co-occurring Substance Abuse Disorders
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- PTSD
- Addiction
- Eating Disorders
- OCD
TrustPoint adopts the use of several evidence-based treatment modalities proven effective in treating conditions such as these. Throughout the many different programming options provided, including inpatient behavioral health, outpatient behavioral health, medical psychiatry, and detoxification, those on staff will supply services including individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and experiential therapy.
Additional programs offered at TrustPoint include physical therapy services for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury, COPD exacerbation, cardiac conditions, and neurological disorders. Also, treatment is provided for behavioral complications related to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other cognitive disorders.
TrustPoint values the clinical expertise gathered through certifications, licensures, training, and more, however realizes that it also takes compassion, understanding, and heart to truly help patients obtain full healing.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Murfreesboro, TN
TrustPoint Hospital is a state-of-the-art treatment center that provides medical and psychiatric services for adults and seniors. Located in a quiet setting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, TrustPoint focuses on providing patients with the emotional, social, medical, and cultural care they need to heal from a plethora of conditions.
The staff at TrustPoint consists of a physician, nurse, patient care technician, physical therapist, occupational therapist, respiratory therapist, case manager, speech-language pathologist, psychiatrist, and neuropsychologist. Each member of the team is highly skilled and experienced in caring for the many conditions treated at TrustPoint, including but not limited to, the following:
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Delusional Disorders
- Co-occurring Substance Abuse Disorders
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- PTSD
- Addiction
- Eating Disorders
- OCD
TrustPoint adopts the use of several evidence-based treatment modalities proven effective in treating conditions such as these. Throughout the many different programming options provided, including inpatient behavioral health, outpatient behavioral health, medical psychiatry, and detoxification, those on staff will supply services including individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and experiential therapy.
Additional programs offered at TrustPoint include physical therapy services for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury, COPD exacerbation, cardiac conditions, and neurological disorders. Also, treatment is provided for behavioral complications related to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other cognitive disorders.
TrustPoint values the clinical expertise gathered through certifications, licensures, training, and more, however realizes that it also takes compassion, understanding, and heart to truly help patients obtain full healing.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Murfreesboro, TN
