Dietetic Internship Experience:

Veteran Affairs Hospital, Temple Texas

Oncology: 5 weeks with staff relief
Applied the Nutrition Care Process when assessing oncology outpatients and general medicine patients
Attended and participated in IDT meetings
Educated patients on renal diets, heart healthy diets, carbohydrate counting, Coumadin and Quinolone use
Counseled Veterans on various concerns including lack of appetite, vomiting, weight loss, and change in taste
Outpatient
Lead classes on weight loss and diabetes and completed one-on-one counseling sessions with patients on weight loss,
diabetes, heart healthy diets
Wrote a business plan that included VA policy for a subsection of Healthy Teaching Kitchen initiative
Community Living Center
Followed the Nutrition Care Process when assessing patients in a long-term care and hospice setting
Attended and participated in IDT meetings and conducted a tray accuracy survey
Domiciliary
Counseled Veterans on carbohydrate counting, food-drug medication interactions, heart healthy diets, diabetes, and renal
diets
Food Service Management
Observed management meetings
Taught employee safety classes
Created visual aid for food placement on Aladdin system and lead a taste testing for new food product
Assisted in writing employee job description
Bell County WIC
Counseled WIC clients on appropriate food choices for their children and for pregnant mothers
Taught healthy cooking classes
Created handouts on various topics of healthy eating for clients and created WIC recipes
Measured children and infants to ensure they were following the appropriate growth charts
Baylor Scott and White Hospital, Temple Texas
Inpatient Renal
Performed Nutrition Care process for patients with varying conditions including kidney disease, liver disease, cardiac
issues, and diabetes
Counseled patients when necessary regarding special diets
Inpatient Cardiology
Applied Nutrition Care Process to assess patients on CVICU and cardiology units
Educated patients on heart healthy diets, diabetes, low sodium diets and renal diets
Nutrition Support
Used Nutrition Care process to assess patients on tube feedings in STICU and ICU units
Calculated tube feeding rates and assisted with TPN recommendations
Outpatient Endocrinology
Lead diabetes education classes on carbohydrate counting, eating out at restaurants, provided resources for nutrient
information on food, one-on-one diabetes and weight management counseling and carbohydrate counting
recommendations, and developed brochures for diabetes management
Provided staff relief for one-on-one patient counseling using motivational interviewing
Inpatient Pediatrics
Performed Nutrition Care Process for to determine appropriate nutritional treatment plan for pediatric patients
Contributed to interdisciplinary meetings about patients and followed a case study TPN patient for 1 week
Recommended food-based supplements for diet orders, calculated tube feeding recommendations, monitored tube
feeding and formula tolerance
Bell County ISD School Foodservice
Served in an elementary school kitchen and middle school kitchen
Developed and delivered presentations for high school and gave MyPlate presentations to 5 elementary schools
Assessed and compiled carbohydrate amounts on menu cycle to assist diabetic students
Attended and participated in administrative manager meetings
Cooper Clinic
Wrote articles for Cooper Clinics Nutrition Tidbits online articles
Assisted with editing presentations for Healthy Living Wellness Week for clients