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• Manage daily activities and performance improvement initiatives for three clinical dietitians
• Provide nutrition counseling for Acute Rehabilitation and Medical Intensive Care units
• Facilitate activities for and precept post-graduate dietetic internship students
• Developed COVID-19 Nutrition Support Protocol for 200-bed acute care hospital
• Collaborate with St. Joseph's Food and Nutrition team to launch International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI)
• Conducted forty-eight recipe nutrient analyses using FoodWorks software for Vision Software Technologies electronic menu transition

Wayne, New Jersey

• Liaison for St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center during Cerner Millennium EMR system changeover
• Facilitated transition of Kindred LTACH Registered Dietitian Writing Order process
• Precepted post-graduate dietetic interns for College of St. Elizabeth and Montclair State University
• Developed and implemented educational materials for lectures and health fair
• Conducted nutrition assessments & education for Intensive Care Unit, Acute Rehabilitation Unit, and Kindred LTACH

• Assessed the nutritional needs of patients within the Surgical Intensive Care Step-Down, Medical-Surgical, and Maternity units

• Increased the implementation of Healthy Living Programming in northern New Jersey counties
• Facilitated youth development programs in Passaic County

• Received patient meal requests by phone call to the diet office, call backs from the diet office or visitation at the patient bedside
• Handled all patient/customer interactions in a courteous and professional manner, using standardized script where required
• Kept accurate dietary records for patients in the computer as necessary
• Ensured all menu choices made by patients were therapeutically accurate, through suggestions of alternatives when necessary for patient satisfaction

• Assisted a Registered Dietitian in providing pediatric nutrition education and counseling
• Delegated meal preparation and related tasks to participants ages 7 to 18

• Maintained patient records and other documents, soft and hard copy

Dietetic Internship, Nutrition And Dietetics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Nutrition With A Concentration In Dietetics

Education record