Clinical Dietitian PRN
Posted Jun 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you educated a patient whose culture or food traditions made a standard therapeutic diet hard to follow.
What they are checking: Whether they can adapt diet teaching to a patient's real life instead of handing out generic diet sheets.
Tell me about a time you had to prioritize a heavy caseload in limited time. How did you decide who to see first?
What they are checking: Whether they use risk and screening data to triage patients rather than seeing them in convenient order.
What would you do
This PRN role covers inpatient and outpatient positions for PTO and FMLA. How do you get up to speed quickly on a caseload you have never seen?
What they are checking: Whether they can step into someone else's patients safely, prioritize high risk cases and keep the care plan moving.
A physician wants to keep a patient NPO for several more days and you think nutrition support should start now. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they can advocate with evidence and work within the team without overstepping the physician's role.
About the work
Walk me through how you perform a nutrition-focused physical exam and what findings would tell you a patient is malnourished.
What they are checking: Whether they can identify muscle wasting, fat loss and fluid changes and connect them to malnutrition criteria.
How do you calculate and start enteral feeding for a patient in the ICU?
What they are checking: Whether they can estimate energy and protein needs, choose a formula and plan safe advancement.
What do you watch for when starting nutrition support in a patient at risk for refeeding syndrome?
What they are checking: Whether they know to check and replace electrolytes and start slowly to prevent a dangerous complication.
The role may include supervising infant formula preparation. How would you calculate a recipe to concentrate formula for a preterm infant?
What they are checking: Whether they can do accurate infant formula math, where small errors carry serious risk.
How do you make sure your documentation meets IDPH, Joint Commission and CMS standards?
What they are checking: Whether they understand how regulatory standards shape charting, including timelines for assessments and reassessments.
How do you keep current on nutrition research and practice guidelines?
What they are checking: Whether they actively maintain their knowledge, since the role expects evidence-based care across many conditions.
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