Job Description
Job Description
Position: Dietitian - Kidney Transplant Services
Duration: Permanent
Shift: M-F 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, fully onsite
- No weekends, no holidays and no on-call!
- Rounds start @9 AM at the hospital
Interview Process:
- 1st round: 30 minute Teams meeting
- 2nd round: hour and a half onsite interview (meet the team and shadow)
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Insight Global is seeking a Dietitian within the Kidney Transplant Services to support a BEST regional hospital in Washington, DC. The Transplant Registered Dietitian Nutritionist provides nutritional assessment and intervention to transplant candidates and recipients. Living donors may receive a nutritional assessment if requested by a transplant team member.
Responsibilities:
- Provides nutrition assessments and interventions to transplant candidates and recipients as requested.
- Provides nutrition assessments and interventions to living donor candidates as requested by physicians.
- Provides ongoing nutrition strategies for complex, high risk patients.
- Develops and review guidelines used for nutritional assessment and intervention of pre and post-transplant as well as for living donors.
- Reviews medical documentation and oversees nutrition care provided.
- Follows up with high risk patients as needed/requested.
- Demonstrates good organizational skills and be able to multi-task, prioritize, and quickly adjust to changes when needed.
- Accesses information as needed from all data sources (data base, electronic charts, outside providers, etc.).
- Attends all departments-specific training and demonstrate proficiency related to safety and job-related hazards.
- Participates in at least one transplant related performance improvement project.
- Participates in monthly QAPI meetings.
- Participates in weekly patient selection meetings.
- Effectively communicates expectations.
- Reviews or develops educational material for transplant candidates, recipients and living donors.
- Documents nutrition assessment in the patient’s medical record.
Must Haves:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition / Dietetics.
- Registered Dietitian / Nutritionist (RDN).
- Washington DC Dietitian License.
- 1-2 years' experience required.
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- Ideally transplant, inpatient, or dialysis center experience.
Skills:
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to adapt to multiple and changing priorities.
- The dietitians on the team alternate monthly between inpatient and outpatient facilities and responsibilities.
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- Inpatient D2D: rounds @9, educating patients that are being discharged on timeline and next steps, perform liver evaluation and assessments, documentation, and assisting with TPN / tube feeds.
- Outpatient D2D: consulting for frailty, ensure candidates are eligible for liver / kidney transplants, assist with hematology cases by educating patients.