Ambulatory Dietitian Registered PRN

Inova Schar Cancer/Peterson Life with Cancer and Inova Cardiopulmonary Rehab Centers at Inova Loudoun, Fair Oaks, Mount Vernon, Fairfax and Alexandria (PROC, Mark Center and Landmark) are seeking a Registered Dietitian that is a self-motivated, team player to join the clinical nutrition team. This position is a PRN (on-call) position and will cover patients at all Inova Life with Cancer Centers and Inova Cardiopulmonary Rehab for intermittent staff relief. Working hours are Mon-Fri from 9:00am-5:00pm.

Inova PRN Benefits and Perks:

• State-of-the-art medical and training facilities
• Retirement benefits with match from day one
• Free Parking to all employees
• Exclusive savings opportunities to in-store events, theme parks, discounts, movie tickets and local offerings and so much more!

Registered Dietitian Job Responsibilities:

• The Dietitian Registered provides safe and therapeutic nutritional care in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
• Provides clinical services and act as a resource to physicians, nurses and other professional healthcare team members, to provide patients with optimum nutritional care.
• Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data and synthesizing their interrelationships.
• Formulates an individualized nutrition plan of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
• Anticipates nutritional intervention issues, monitors patient tolerance to nutrition therapy and responds when standards of nutrition care recommend changes.
• Coordinates the nutrition care plan with the physician and other healthcare providers while serving as a resource in the integration of the nutrition care plan into the comprehensive plan of care for the patient.
• Communicates with the healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to increase practice knowledge and incorporate that knowledge into the nutrition plan of care.
• Provides education to physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers to optimize nutrition therapy outcomes.
• Incorporates research findings into nutrition practice standards, develops/revises patient education programs and participates in the development and revision of patient education materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree minimum if licensed before 1/1/2024; Dietitians registered after 1/1/2024 must hold a master's degree
• Experience: Dietetic internship or equivalent
  
  
  
  • Previous oncology experience or dietetic clinical specialty experience, highly preferred
  
  
• Certification:
  
  
  
  • Registered Dietitian (RD) required within 3 Months of hire
  • Basic Life Support from American Heart Association required within 3 Months of hire
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cardiopulmonary and/or oncology experience preferred