Job Description
Job Description
:KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Develops, implements, monitors, and coordinates nutritional care plan based on assessment to client's needs with other health professionals.
Writes orders for enteral and parenteral nutrition, supplements, and additives as indicated by the assessment and plan of care.
Works seven days per week including holidays to support ThedaCare’s hospitalized patients on nutrition support (enteral and parenteral nutrition). Responds to consults within 24 hours, including patients in ambulatory settings identified with nutrition risk per nutrition risk screen.
Completes nutrition focused physical exam to diagnose malnutrition.
Counsels individuals and family members on nutritional principles, dietary plans, food selection, and economics of nutrition. Adapts plans to individual client's needs, lifestyle, and cultural eating habits. Provides follow-up and makes a...