Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks a Clinical Dietitian I for their SBCH Nutrition department responsible for providing direct patient nutrition care or nutrition education. One of the essential duties of this position is to be directly responsible for the evaluation of nutritional care affecting menu development, meal planning, and patient food production. Major accountabilities include:
Accurately assesses nutritional status utilizing medical history, physical assessment, laboratory and anthropometric data as well as patient/family acquired diet history.Develops nutritional plan of care that includes attention to age, developmental, social and cultural status, medical condition and co-morbidities.Documents in the medical record utilizing a model of assessment, intervention, and monitoring of nutrition care.