Overview Full Time- Days-varied days of the week, typically every other weekend Looking to be part of something more meaningful? At HonorHealth, you’ll be part of a team, creating a multi-dimensional care experience for our patients. You’ll have opportunities to make a difference. From our Ambassador Movement to our robust training and development programs, you can select where and how you want to make an impact. HonorHealth offers a diverse benefits portfolio for our full-time and part-time team members designed to help you and your family live your best lives. Visit honorhealth.com/benefits to learn more. Join us. Let’s go beyond expectations and transform healthcare together. HonorHealth is one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, serving a population of five million people in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The comprehensive network encompasses six acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group with primary, specialty and urgent care services, a cancer care network, outpatient surgery centers, clinical research, medical education, a foundation, an accountable care organization, community services and more. With nearly 14,000 team members, 3,700 affiliated providers and hundreds of volunteers dedicated to providing high quality care, HonorHealth strives to go beyond the expectations of a traditional healthcare system to improve the health and well-being of communities across Arizona. Learn more at HonorHealth.com. Responsibilities Job Summary Under the direction of the registered dietitians, provides nutrition care services to hospitalized patients. Participates in integrated nutrition screening processes, assessment of nutrition status, and care plan development and implementation. Documents patient care in the medical record. Monitors and evaluates nutrition status; develops meal and nourishment plans to meet nutritional requirements. Provides survival skill, discharge nutrition education to patients and families. Refers high risk patients to the registered dietitians. Generates nutrition screening reports. Following established guidelines, rates individual patient needs and nutritional status relevant to patient age and condition. Refers high risk patients to the registered dietitian. According to Nutrition care standards, develops and implements a plan of nutrition care incorporating available data. Documents nutrition care in patient medical record in a timely and accurate manner. Evaluates effectiveness of nutrition care plan. Monitors progress of patients’ achievement of nutritional goals. Reassessment of nutrition status is completed in accordance with nutrition care guidelines. Assesses education needs and provides individualized education to patients and families. Provides basic nutrition education, i.e. survival skill teaching, to patients and families prior to hospital discharge. Initiates calorie counts and documents nutrition analysis in the patient medical record. Sets up and processes between meal nourishments for patients desiring or requiring them. Verifies tolerances and changes supplements accordingly. Attends multi-disciplinary patient care conferences and actively participates, promoting discussion of patients current nutritional status and suggests nutrition care plan. The following are job accountabilities that may be reassigned: Participates in community heath education programs. Qualifications Education Bachelor's Degree in Food and Nutrition or Associates Degree in Dietetics with ADA Registration as Dietetic Technician Required Experience 6 months in healthcare setting Required Licenses and Certifications