About Us

Cornerstone Healthcare Group, based in Dallas, Texas, was founded in 1990 and provides excellent healthcare services to our patients, residents and their families.

Our employees make a difference, join us so you can too! We pride ourselves on our quality of care, responsive service, and commitment to excellence. We treat each employee, patient and resident like we would a member of our own family, and measure our success by the direct impact we have on improving the quality of life for our employees, patients and residents.

 

Responsibilities:

The Dietitian performs nutritional assessments of patients ranging in age from 18 years to geriatric. 

The Dietitian duties include:

• Documents and assists with modified diet prescriptions. 
• Consults with patients and families on dietary and nutritional status. 
• Assists with tube feedings and TPN orders. 
• Appropriately assesses patients at nutritional risk via screening policy.
• Assesses patient and family learning needs, identifies barriers to learning, mode of learning.
• Assists as needed in food production, policy development and special projects.
• Demonstrates ability to assess and reassess patients needs appropriately and timely according to policy.
• Develops individualized plan of care.
• Documents nutrition intervention in detailed, accurate, and appropriate manner.
• Effectively explains diet requirements, restrictions, and food/drug interactions.
• Participates in the monitoring and reporting of quality indicators for clinical nutrition and food service.
• Recommends additional nutrition therapy as needed.
• Respond to requests and consults timely according to policy.
• Works collaboratively with other health care disciplines in developing interdisciplinary plan of care and discharge planning.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Food, Nutrition and/or Dietetics. 
• Prefer two years of experience as a Dietitian.
• Customer Service skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, stressful environment.
• Ability to project a professional image.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Working knowledge of personal computer and software applications used in job functions (AS-400, Word processing, databases, spreadsheets, etc.)
• Persons who have been found guilty by a court of law of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating individuals in a health care related setting are ineligible for employment in this position.
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs.
• Freedom from use of and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.

Education and/or Experience: 

• Experience in a health care setting preferred.
• One (1) to three (3) months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: 

• Current registration as a Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration and licensed by the Department of Health in the state of employment.
• Two years of experience as a Dietitian preferred.

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