Dietician - Patient Care Medical Group
Livingston, NJ 07039
About the Job
Engage your Entrepreneurial Spirit by joining the Fastest growing Start Up Medical Practice in the Country! Where you will have the opportunity to be a clinical architect by helping build the healthcare reality of tomorrow!
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Position Summary:
Opportunity:Provide appropriate, patient-centered care to high-risk, medically vulnerable patients, often suffering from multiple chronic conditions, when and where they need it. This patient-centric, continuous care model delivers clinical, economic, and human benefits.
Mission:Patient Care Medical Group seeks to understand a patient’s physical, emotional, and social conditions to provide patient specific care with the goal of achieving an optimal level of success.
Solution: Facilitation of timely interventions when chronic conditions worsen and preempting avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations, alleviating social stressors that contribute to poor health, and comforting patients by giving them loving care and letting them know they are not alone.
Care Settings:Post-Acute Care (PAC), Skilled Nursing facilities, Community/Home Care Patients, Assisted Living, Remote
Essential Functions:
Assesses the health and nutritional needs of patients.
Counseling patients about nutrition and healthy eating habits.
Taking facility and patient preferences and budgets into consideration when creating meal and nutrition programs.
Monitor and evaluate the effects of nutrition practices and plans, andadjusting if necessary.
Talking to groups about proper nutrition and healthy eating habits.
Develop educational materials to promote healthy lifestyle choices and healthy food choices.
Follow the latest research in nutrition and food science, andparticipating in it.
Develop strategic meal plans for patients with special needs.
Assist the patient in their counseling needs and maintaining their morale.
Cleanlinessof the workspace and using the proper utensils for food preparation.
Communing with patients to learn more about their health goals and dietary preferences.
Prepare patients’ nutrition plans.
Track patients’ progress toward their health goals and compiling relevant information.
Enter patient information into the appropriate database.