Experience

National HealthCare Corporation

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Dietetic Intern

  • Aug 2011 - Present

  Earned greater than 1200 hours of supervised field experience in clinical, community nutrition, and foodservice management. •Completed over 100 clinical nutrition assessments in the acute care and long term care settings with a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. •Conducted inpatient and outpatient nutrition education to diabetes, renal, cardiac, and Coumadin patients. •Recommended appropriate medical nutrition therapy to patients receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition. •Prepared and conducted foodservice and nursing staff in-services on special diets, hydration, and food safety. ••Conducted multiple nutrition education classes for weight loss and weight management groups and individual client sessions. •Participated in nutrition promotion at local health fairs. •Participated in result counseling and nutrition screening for various employers in the Nashville area. •Conducted private nutritional counseling sessions. •Created user friendly nutrient analysis of vending machine items for National Healthcare Corporation corporate wellness project. •Conducted healthy eating and fueling for performance nutrition class for 6th grade basketball team in Dayton, Ohio. •Taught two 50 minute classes on “Nutritional Implications with the Dementia Patient” to Middle Tennessee State University undergraduate students. •Completed quality improvement project on tray accuracy, food preferences, and the flow of food from the kitchen to the patient. •Assessed and collaborated with nursing staff to provide appropriate nutritional interventions to patients with wounds and enteral nutrition. •Participated in patient care plan meetings with family and interdisciplinary staff. •Independently planned, prepared and catered employee appreciation meal to 150 nursing home partners. •Prepared and placed over $20,000 food order for nursing facility. •Conducted clinical, foodservice, and dining room excellence audits for nursing facility. Show less



Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Diet Technician, Registered

  • Apr 2009 - Jul 2011

  •Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Employee of the month - July 2010 •Attended CommuniCare Corporate Annual Meeting - 2010 •Processed, monitored, reported, and addressed weekly and monthly weights. •Completed initial, quarterly, significant change, hospital return, and skilled nutrition assessments. •Documented monthly dialysis, tube feeding, high risk, and skin notes in coordination with RD. •Completed MDS 3.0 and 2.0 assessments, CAA and RAP summaries, interdisciplinary plans of care, and dietary plan of care documents for residents. •Collaborated with and recommended appropriate nutritional interventions to members of the interdisciplinary team, including the MD. •Attended, prepared reports for, and presented reports at monthly QI and quarterly QA meetings. •Conducted weekly weight meetings with interdisciplinary team. •Performed Meal audits, test trays, and kitchen sanitation audits. •Conducted all-staff and dietary in-services regarding nutritional care and food safety. •Created and piloted fine dining program. •Designed restorative dining room. Show less



Avalon by Otterbein, Clearcreek

• Diet Technician, Registered

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2009

  •Reviewed menus weekly for nutritional adequacy and educated STNAs and residents on creating balanced meals. •Customized diets, menus and meal plans for residents on a weekly basis. •Created therapy house 5-week cycle menu. •Used GFS Plus software for menus and shopping lists weekly, collaborated with GFS weekly on food orders and formulary items, placed food orders, and worked with STNAs to stay within food budget. •Provided weekly ServSafe training to STNAs. •Completed monthly environmental kitchen checklists and created corresponding plan of corrections. •Developed and completed monthly weight report. •Completed initial, quarterly, significant change, and skilled Nutrition Assessments, MDS 2.0 documents, RAP summaries, Plan of Care documents, and documented weekly high risk resident progress. •Represented the dietary department in care conferences, morning leadership meetings, and quarterly QA meetings. •Reviewed substitution logs and provided educational counseling to STNAs quarterly and as needed. •Created and Conducted monthly and as needed in-services for staff and held quarterly meetings with food coordinators. •Attended monthly food taskforce meetings; assisted in policy and procedure development, cooking, foodservice, and convivium. Show less



Heartland Of Miamisburg

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Diet Technician

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

  •Independently performed initial, annual, quarterly, and discharge clinical nutrition assessments on an as needed basis. •Independently performed initial, annual, quarterly, and discharge clinical nutrition assessments on an as needed basis.