Food and Nutrition professional with 17 years of experience working as an RD, Food Service Supervisor and Diet Technician in both hospital/Acute and out patient setting. Skilled in Nutrition Assessment, Nutrition counseling and follow up assessments. Proficiency using diet processing applications CBord and Synergy as well as patient charting programs Power Chart, Meditech and Epic. Excellent leadership skills and proven ability to collaborate with other members of the medical team.
• Processes complex therapeutic diets using CBord and liaises
with Clinical Dietitians to support patient nutritional needs.
• Utilizes and monitors the system to support operations and
clinical nutrition e.g.generate reports that provide calorie count
information or production census.
• Provides Supervisory coverage when required (weekends or
holidays)
• Maintain adequate staffing with strict adherence to union
guidelines.
• Ensures food safety by doing HACCP safety checks and audits
• Performed nutrition screening and identified high risk patients
for prioritization.
• Performed nutrition assessment and gave recommendations
to improve intake.
• Work closely with Dietitians through implementation of care
plans, menu evaluation and planning.
• Work with RD’s and speech pathologists to ensure
compliance with IDDSI guidelines.
• Receives and processes diet orders via Synergy.
• Ensure adequate staffing and manage staff through
coordination of tasks.
• Maintains overall kitchen safety and efficiency by ensuring
areas are safe and equipment in excellent working
condition.
• Ensures food safety by doing HACCP safety checks and
audits.
· Receives and processes diet orders in a centralized diet office
setting via CBord.
· Monitors and utilize various operations within CBord to ensure
accurate production forecasts and menu generation.
• Work with Registered Dietitians daily in implementing
nutrition care plans.
• Complies with IDDSI guidelines by ensuring proper
modification of food textures.
· Ensure adequate staffing and supervise staff through
coordination of various tasks
· Oversees the delivery of food services to patients, residents,
customers and clients.
· Ensures food safety by doing HACCP safety checks and
audits.
• Maintains overall kitchen safety and efficiency by ensuring
areas are safe and equipments in excellent working
condition.
· Provided Nutrition/Dietary counseling for in/out-patients and
referrals.
· Communicated nutritional care plans with other healthcare
professionals through clear and concise progress notes.
· Updated educational handouts based on recent developments
in renal disease management.
· Documented and maintained all records related to nutrition
through patient chart.
. Compiled and interpreted of patient laboratory results to be
presented in the Monthly quality control meetings.
● Implemented diet orders and nutritional care plans by
doctors and Clinical Dietitians, respectively..
● Developed and maintained accurate nutrition records and
databases pertaining to diet history and eating related
problems.
● Maintained food production control by making an accurate
forecast of meals to be served.
● Supervised and directed Dietary staff in dispensation
of meals to ensure compliance with diet and safety
standards.
● Preserved inventory of nutrition-related supplies and
equipment.
● Directed training of dietary staff and conducted performance
evaluation.
● Being the front runners in hospital Nutrition Care, answered
queries of hospital staff and patients concerning matters
regarding Nutrition in the absence of the Clinical Dietitian.
●. Implemented diet orders by doctors and carried out Nutrition
care plans by other RD’s.
● Provided Individual Nutrition counseling to in patients and out
patients.
● Supervised and directed dispensation of patient meals to
ensure compliance with diet and food safety
● Supervised and evaluated performance of Dietary staffs.
● Participated in budget preparation and implementation of cost
control procedures.