PRN (As Needed)

Shift: Days

**General Summary**

Provides medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in an inpatient or outpatient setting. MNT includes assessing, planning, and monitoring all nutrition related care. Ensures quality care, patient satisfaction and good public relations.

**Essential Functions:**

+ Uses parameters such as anthropometric measurements, nutrition focused physical examination and interpretation of laboratory values to assess the nutritional status of neonates/infants, pediatric, adolescent, adult and /or geriatric patients.
+ Develops revises and individualizes the nutrition care plan based on information gathered from the patient, patient's significant other, medical record and health care team members.
+ Incorporates evidence based research into practice.
+ Utilizes physician/referring practitioner driven protocols or other facility specific processes to initiate, implement or modify diet orders and nutritional supp...