Travel RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Sacramento, CA
HonorVet Technologies
5x8 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Title: Dietitian

Location: Sacramento, CA

Duration: 26 weeks

Shift: Day – 5x8-Hour (08:00–17:00)

Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience:
  • Minimum 2 years work experience
  • At least 2 years acute care experience required
  • Teaching hospital experience required
  • Trauma Level I experience required
  • Travel experience not required
• Certifications:
  • RD/RDN
  • BLS (preferred)

Required Skills

Gastrointestinal:

• Abdominal wounds & surgeries
• Chronic diarrhea
• Crohn’s disease*
• Hyperemesis
• IBS
• Short gut syndrome*
• Pressor effects on GI functioning
• Post-op gastric bypass*

Lab Monitoring:

• Blood glucose / A1C
• Lipid panel
• Acid/base balance*

Cardiovascular:

• Acute MI
• Elevated cholesterol/triglycerides
• Heart failure

Neurological/Psychiatric:

• Alzheimer’s disease*

Therapies/Interventions:

• Enteral nutrition (tube feedings)
• Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
• Fluid balance
• Nutrition therapy complications
• Therapeutic diet orders
• Appetite stimulants
• Aspiration safety
• Oral rehydration for high ostomy output*

Professional Skills:

• Nutrition assessments & reassessments
• NFPE
• Developing treatment plans
• Dietary guidelines
• Chronic wounds
• Failure to thrive
• Fluid/electrolyte requirements
• Malabsorption syndromes
• Marasmus
• Metabolic demands
• Morbid obesity
• Protein calorie malnutrition
• Refeeding syndrome
• Cancer
• Cachexia

Renal/Genitourinary:

• Cirrhosis
• Dialysis / Hemodialysis / CRRT
• Acute & chronic kidney disease

Endocrine/Metabolic:

• Diabetes
• DKA
• Low blood sugar

Respiratory:

• Cystic fibrosis*

Medications Affecting Nutrition:

• Diuretics
• Immunosuppressants
• Insulin
• Laxatives
• Steroids
• Radiation*

Oral:

• Dysphagia
• Mucositis*
• Stomatitis*
• Epiglottis*

Additional:

• Acute care hospital/ICU experience
• EPIC charting