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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Murrieta, California, United States

-Assessment and management of all patients on enteral and parenteral nutrition for the ICU, telemetry, and med-surgical floors. -Daily participation in multidisciplinary ICU rounds. Close coordination with Pharmacy to ensure appropriate and safe parenteral nutrition programs. -Prepare patients for home enteral and parenteral nutrition including collaboration with Case Management.

-Malnutrition Quality Improvement: developed education for, and instructed physicians on, LLUMC's Malnutrition policy; coordinated with Documentation Specialists to roll out communication strategy to increase physician capture of malnutrition diagnoses and reduce claim denials. Continuous education and training for dietitians to improve patient care with regular audits of malnutrition diagnoses made by dietitians and physicians.-Nutrition Focused Physical Exam: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics certified trainer responsible for training all staff dietitians including introduction, education, individual hands on training, and final skills assessments.-Loma Linda University Students: created and administer Orientation Week for all rotating nutrition students on a quarterly basis including Medical Nutrition Therapy review presentation and clinical orientation; coordinate all aspects of orientation week with Pediatric and Nutrition Support teams of dietitians. -Nursing Education: developed General Nursing Orientation presentation with yearly review; created presentation and taught quarterly RN Residency program for new graduate nurses. -Policy and procedure development and improvement to ensure accurate clinical documentation among dietitians.-Ongoing staff education including dietitian chart review, CEU events, and RN education. -Continue to perform clinical dietitian duties.

Loma Linda, California

Dietitian Specialist 2Provide medical nutrition therapy for adult patients in all areas of a large academic acute care hospital including Surgical, Neural, and Medical ICU's and step-down units, Oncology, Cardiology, and Med-Surgical units. Cross trained on Nutrition Support Team and Adult Clinical Team. Assess patients to evaluate nutritional risk including performing the Nutrition Focused Physical Exam (NFPE). Enact interventions and care plans to address nutritional concerns including therapeutic diets, nutrition support, and diet education. Work on a multidisciplinary team to assess, initiate, monitor, and prepare patients for home enteral and parenteral nutrition. Familiar with adult enteral formulas and Medicare and Medi-Cal reimbursement policies for both enteral and parenteral nutrition. Provide bedside enteral feeding instruction and demonstration to patients and caregivers. Proficient in EPIC EMR and Computrition.

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Dietetic Internship, Human Nutrition And Food Science

Completed 1200 hours of supervised practice including 18 weeks of clinical, 10 weeks of community, and 9 weeks of foodservice.

Bachelor Of Science, Nutrition And Food Science, 3.7 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Nutrition Student Association, CSUSB Leadership Academy

Associate Of Arts, Humanities., Associate Of Arts, Social And Behavioral Sciences.