Registered Dietitian
Join our compassionate team at Franciscan Healthcare as a Registered Dietitian, where you’ll play a vital role in shaping the nutrition and wellness of our patients and community. You’ll partner with our dietary department to focus on exceptional nutrition management and make a lasting impact through participation in our Diabetes Education Program. This is your opportunity to combine clinical expertise with meaningful, patient-centered care in a supportive environment.
Hours: Full-time, Minimum 35 hours/week, Monday-Friday
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Counsel therapeutic and non-therapeutic diet patients in proper nutrition, methods of food preparation and other matters as pertains to their nutritional needs.
- Approves selective and therapeutic menus and prepares Diabetic selective menus for inpatients.
- Conducts classes in nutrition, diet therapy, and menu planning at Franciscan Healthcare and in the community.
- Serves as instructor in individual classes of the Diabetes Self-Management Education Program.
- Works as part of interdisciplinary team in nutrition assessment, education and evaluation.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics/Nutrition and is licensed in the state of Nebraska as a medical nutrition therapist (LMNT).
- Registered member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Other Competencies
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
- Verbal abilities required to communicate effectively with medical personnel and staff and to explain dietetic restrictions to patients/residents.
- Knowledge of current concepts of diabetes management.
- Knowledge of chronic disease management.
- Numerical ability required to compute dietetic values of food and to work with dietetic formulas.
- A preference for scientific and technical activities to work with caloric values, physical properties of foodstuffs, patient lab values, as well as understanding the basics for dietetic restrictions.
- Interpersonal skills necessary to communicate effectively with staff, patients and the public.
- Analytical skills necessary to organize workload.
