Registered Dietitian

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.

A Registered Dietitian in this role helps people in our community to regain and/or improve their health. The Dietitian will provide individualized medical nutrition therapy, education and counseling to patients. This role works collaboratively with other health disciplines and departments to optimize nutrition care and patient experience.

This is a regular PRN position, with caregivers working days from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. with rotating weekend and holiday requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct patient care using medical nutrition therapy for an assigned patient population.
• Provide counseling and education services to patients with disease processes that require nutritional management.
• Implement a nutritional care plan, communicates plan, establishes a follow-up system and maintains documentation.
• Write changes for diet orders and initiate nutrient intake assessments.
• Assess patients for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies and evaluate appropriate fluid and electrolytes.
• Review laboratory and clinical progress notes and inform physicians of patients' nutritional status and need for changes in diet.
• Coordinate efforts of dietetic technician assigned to area.
• Develop and contribute to Cleveland Clinic sponsored education programs for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, students, peers and the public.
• Create and revise education materials related to disease management through medical nutrition therapy.
• Participate in program development designed to market and expand departmental services and revenue generation.
• Market services to potential and current referral sources; develops and implements services in response to client's needs and wants.
• Actively contribute to departmental initiatives, including committees and projects.
• Support the dietetic internship program as a supervised practice rotation preceptor and class instructor.
• Complete reports for ongoing productivity tracking.
• Participate in professional growth activities; attends and contributes to conferences and seminars on nutrition and related topics.
• Represent Cleveland Clinic on nutrition related matters.
• Conduct clinical research and utilize clinical software applications to facilitate care.
• Comply with all regulatory organizations including CMS, JCAO, ADA and policies and procedures of the department and Cleveland Clinic.
  
  

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics or a closely related field
• Maintain current license to practice dietetics in the current state (LD) and active certification as a Registered Dietitian (RD)
• One year of experience as a Registered Dietitian in clinical nutrition OR successful completion of a Dietetic Internship Program may substitute for experience
  
  

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Epic experience
• Previous hospital experience
  
  

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Physical Requirements:

• Ability to navigate extensively to provide services to a large number of patients throughout the hospital and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer entry.
• Must have physical ability to measure and weigh patients.
  
  

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
  
  

Pay Range

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