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To provide timely, comprehensive, and evidence-based nutritional care and education to patients with endocrine disorders and their families in the outpatient setting. Actively participate in the training of medical staff, dietetic interns, and peers. Ensure best practices by regularly reviewing current endocrine and nutrition literature and updating policies and practices as warranted. Deliver care in a manner that is highly responsive to patients’ needs and supports the highest quality of endocrine-focused nutritional management.
Job Responsibility:
Conducts comprehensive nutrition and diabetes self-management assessments for patients in an outpatient setting
Develops and implements individualized nutrition and diabetes care plans based on evidence-based guidelines
Provides education and counseling on medical nutrition therapy, carbohydrate counting, insulin-to-carb ratios, food-drug interactions, and other aspects of diabetes management
Develops and updates patient education materials and resources for diabetes and nutrition management
Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care and optimize patient outcomes
Provide lectures to residents, NP’s, and Fellows on diabetes and related endocrine conditions
Serves as clinical preceptor to dietetic interns and provides didactic training to nutrition students, peers and other medical professionals
Participates in orienting, training and in-servicing professional and other nutrition staff
Participates in quality improvement initiatives and contributes to program development, evaluation, and reporting for outpatient diabetes education services
Represents the department at community nutrition functions
Requirements:
Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition, Foods and Nutrition Service or equivalent
completion of one-year dietetic internship experience or equivalent
Registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
Advanced certification, CNSC, CDCES, CSP or other specialist certification in specific area of practice required within 18 months of hire