Susan Stephens Email & Phone Number

North Alabama

Consultant Dietitian at Assisted Living facilities • Identify high risk residents and work collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to identify appropriate interventions, resources or solutions. • Provide quality assurance consultation and support with sanitation, meal service, education, and menu compliance.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

USANA Health Sciences Health and Wellness Consultant, trainer, relationship building, disease prevention, disease management, supplements, nutritionals, education, training manager, financial manager, sales, marketing, team building, event planning and coordinating, management, leadership.

Cullman, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Assessed patients’ knowledge of diet and kidney disease and provided education to patient/family member/caregiver regarding nutritional status, adequacy measures and results, fluid status, and all nutrition-related lab parameters pertaining to disease process.• Completed nutritional assessment and participated in interdisciplinary comprehensive assessments.• Participated with the interdisciplinary team in the development of a written, individualized comprehensive plans of care that specify services necessary to address patient needs in accordance with established federal and state licensure guidelines.• Completed progress notes on all chronic dialysis patients according to established FMCNA guidelines and maintained complete and accurate documentation of information in medical record.• Provided patient with ongoing nutrition assessment and outcome-oriented nutrition counseling necessary to assist patient in achieving and sustaining an effective nutritional status. • Identified malnourished patients as well as patients at risk for malnutrition and worked collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to identify appropriate interventions, resources or solutions. • Reviewed each patient’s albumin level and body weight and implemented plans of care with involvement of patient/family/caregiver.• Monitored adherence and response to nutrition therapy and adjusted therapy as needed to achieve and sustain an effective nutritional status.• Collaborated with the interdisciplinary team on management and recommendations for mineral metabolism and renal bone disease, anemia and iron status, nutritional status, psychosocial status, vascular access, modality, rehabilitation status and sodium/volume control.• Communicated with physician and/or facility staff regarding lab results as appropriate and communicated lab results and recommended treatment changes to providers of patient care in nursing facilities (i.e., hospitals, short term and long term care facilities).

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Educated diabetic, weight management, cardiac, renal, pediatric and prenatal patients.• Screened, assessed, and counseled patients in a multidisciplinary ambulatory care setting.

Decatur, Alabama Area

Long Term Care• Participated as a member of the interdisciplinary team.• Completed nutrition section for MDS and RAPs triggered by MDS.• Assessed residents for medical nutrition therapy regarding nutrition and hydration needs.• Created resident care plans based on identified potential nutritional problems.• Prepared and conducted weekly weight team meeting.• Participated in CQI and QA monitoring.

Greater Memphis Area

• Conducted nutrition education. • Screened and counseled participants.• Developed nutrition education materials.• Conducted test tray quality assurance checks.

Greater Memphis Area

• Planned monthly menus.• Prepared cost analysis.• Taste-tested and gathered data on surveys.

Master Of Science (Ms), Dietetics And Clinical Nutrition Services

Activities and Societies: Memphis District Dietetic Association

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Family And Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences

Activities and Societies: Student Dietetic Association- Secretary, American Dietetic Association, Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society- Vice.