Experience

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  Share our strength's cooking matters

  Sept 2011 - May 2012

  Nutrition instructor assistant

  • Assisted in teaching nutritional cooking classes to groups of various ages; classes focused on teaching low-income families how to cook and shop for healthy, affordable foods• Led guided grocery store tours to help participants learn how to make healthy choices on a limited budget.

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  God's love we deliver

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2014

  Nutrition department assistant

  • Created educational handouts and PowerPoint slides for nutrition education presentations• Wrote articles and blogs and compiled seasonal recipes for the nutrition newsletter and website

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  Methodist home for nursing and rehabilitation

  Aug 2013 - Jan 2014

  Nutrition volunteer

  •Discussed patients’ nutritional needs and capabilities with the dietitian and nurses to provide healthy snacks, appropriately tailored to individual diets•Attended meetings with the dietitian, food service director, and chef to make revisions to the menu•Administered food surveys to patients •Performed meal observation surveys to assess patients’ eating habits• Observed patient assessments and monthly wound and tube feed assessments to determine if changes must be made

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  Baylor university medical center

  Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

  Dietetic intern

  • Completed a 10-month training program that included rotations in clinical nutrition, food service management, and community nutrition • Spent three weeks of staff relief working in the bone marrow transplant unit, which consisted of attending daily multidisciplinary rounds and writing orders for parenteral nutrition for patients in critical care • Presented case studies and a research seminar on the weight trends following a total pancreatectomy and autologous islet cell transplant • Oversaw the hospital’s National Nutrition Month program Show less

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  Ut southwestern medical center

  Aug 2015 - May 2018

  Registered dietitian

  • Conducted nutrition assessments and evaluations of patients in an acute-care facility• Provided diet education to patients, family members, and fellow members of the healthcare team• Participated in multidisciplinary rounds and established nutrition care plans using evidence-based guidelines• Documented prescribed nutrition interventions in electronic medical records and monitored and evaluated their effectiveness • Identified patients requiring parenteral nutrition and/or enteral nutrition therapy by assessing and evaluating nutritional status and managed feeding schedules if appropriate Show less