Dietitian

Where You’ll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. 

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Responsibilites

 

As our Dietitian you will assess the nutritional status of the patient using recognized tools of assessment and counsel patients, family, and/or caregivers on the appropriate nutrition plan with food requirements, eating habits, and therapeutic nutrition to improve the patient's disease or condition management 

 

Every day you will work with the general patient population, as well as with patients in more complex levels of care under the supervision of a Clinical Dietitian II or Clinical Nutrition Director.

 

To be successful in this role, you will provide medical nutritional therapy to patients by assessing nutritional status, developing a plan of care to maintain or improve nutritional status, periodically evaluating the patient's response to the plan of care, and modifying it as required for optimal outcomes. 

 

• Performs nutritional assessment using age and gender appropriate standards, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds; and utilizing validated assessment tools resulting in nutrition-related diagnosis when indicated.
• Conducts routine screening to identify patients at nutritional risk. Collaborates within an interdisciplinary environment to contribute to facilitating care and identifying patients at nutrition risk or needing higher levels of care.
• Implements targeted and specific nutrition intervention(s). Provides customized nutrition education to patients and/or families and caregivers.
• Works within an interdisciplinary environment to contribute toward overall patient care. Closely monitors, evaluates and rescreens patient nutrition status as appropriate. Updates plan of care as necessary. Follow up with patients as needed.
• Develops an intervention plan which includes appropriate feeding route, mode, and nutrition prescription unique to patient's specific needs, in accordance with physicians' orders.
• Monitors and evaluates patient response to interventions by meeting specific measurable goals documented in the nutrition care plan in a timely and thorough manner in the medical record.

 

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Nutrition or a related field 
• Completion of accredited dietetics program (ACEND - Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics)
• Registered Dietician (RD) within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian ADA (RD-ADA) within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian AND (RD-AND) within 90 Days or
• Registered Dietitian CDR (RD-CDR) within 90 Days

Preferred 

• Minimum one year experience as a Registered Dietitian
• Working experience in an acute care hospital highly
• Valid registration as a Registered Dietitian