{"id":7347,"date":"2012-10-20T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleangreenbean.com\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2015-01-19T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:37:58","slug":"dietetic-internship-weeks-6-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleangreenbean.com\/dietetic-internship-weeks-6-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietetic Internship: Weeks 6-9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Friends!<\/p>\n

I can’t believe i have 4 weeks of my internship to catch you guys up\u00a0on! i’ve been slacking a little bit so this is going to a be a short\u00a0and sweet recap.<\/p>\n

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\nWeek 6
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Here are some of the things I did:<\/p>\n

-Created an updated powerpoint for the presentation that Shelby gives\u00a0to the in-home childcare providers to give them in-service hours. They\u00a0review policies and procedures about what kinds of meals are\u00a0reimbursable, etc as well as educating them about the CARES kits they\u00a0will be receiving. The powerpoint was old and not very visually\u00a0appealing so I made it fun and fresh!<\/p>\n

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(Old on the top, mine on the bottom)<\/p>\n

-I updated some of the adult ed lessons, making sure the pre\/post test\u00a0questions made sense and reflected what was covered in the lessons. I\u00a0also added a section to the food\u00a0safety\u00a0lesson about safe cooking\u00a0tempertures because that was not previously covered very well.<\/p>\n

-I organized all of the tweets\/posts I put together for the marketing\u00a0department into folders and documents so that it would be easy for\u00a0them to just copy and paste to various social media outlets when they\u00a0needed them.<\/p>\n

-I made a couple of new handouts for about Whole Grains, Healthy\u00a0Snacks and Vegetables to go along with the Milk handout i made for\u00a0child care providers a few weeks ago. They won’t be distributed until\u00a0next year but CHA wanted a series of handouts that all had the same\u00a0look to them so they seemed more cohesive.<\/p>\n

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-On friday I led a make-up training session for some of the Americorp\u00a0members who couldn’t come to the nutrition training sessions during\u00a0their orientation week. We did the session via webinar which was a new\u00a0experience for me!<\/p>\n

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\nWeek 7
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During my last week at CHA I spent some time wrapping up loose ends. I\u00a0finished up most of the projects I was working on and the ones that\u00a0couldn’t be finished, I provided a status update so that they could be\u00a0continued after I left.<\/p>\n

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In addition, I:<\/p>\n

-Develeoped a new lesson plan for Adult Ed about Healthy Cooking. It\u00a0showed people common substitutions they could make to help make their\u00a0meals healthier both at home and when they were out to eat.<\/p>\n

-For two days I attended the P4 medical conference<\/p>\n

-On Friday, I led a training for the AmeriCorps members on how to\u00a0successfully lead an adult ed class. We went through the process of\u00a0how to prepare for and teach a class and then also went over some\u00a0strategies and tips for how to best reach and connect with adults when\u00a0you are teaching them.<\/p>\n

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\nWeek 8
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On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I was at FNCE.<\/p>\n

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When I got home I\u00a0had Wednesday off and then I spent two days with a supermarket RD. It\u00a0was fun!<\/p>\n

Here are some of the things we did while I was there:<\/p>\n

-On Thursday we did several personal consults. The store offers\u00a0one-on-one private consults for people who pay, as well as free\u00a0consults to all store employees and their families. We met with two\u00a0different ladies in the morning. In the afternoon, we met with an\u00a0employee and talked with him, as well as went on a walk around the\u00a0store with him to point out some of the different products that we\u00a0talked about.<\/p>\n

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-There was supposed to be a gluten-free store tour on Friday so I\u00a0spent some time searching for gluten-free holiday recipes that we\u00a0could distribute. We also prepped for the tour by gathers information\u00a0and supplies and getting those all ready to go.<\/p>\n

-In the evening we met with someone who had missed a couple of the\u00a0RD’s classes and reviewed the lessons with her.<\/p>\n

-On Friday, no one showed up for the store tour so we filled our day\u00a0with other activities. The theme of the week for the store was\u00a0gluten-free so we made some pumpkin balls that were made with GF\u00a0ingredients to distribute in the store as samples and I typed up an\u00a0announcement that the RD could share over the PA to let shoppers know\u00a0that we had samples and coupons for them.<\/p>\n

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-We spent a couple of hours passing out samples and talking to\u00a0customers. The recipe for the pumpkin balls turned out well, except it\u00a0called for cloves. I usually leave cloves out of recipes because\u00a0they’re so strong. Even though we added just a little bit, lots of\u00a0customers found the taste to be overpowering and didn’t like the\u00a0balls. Interestingly, once we started calling them gingerbread bites\u00a0instead of pumpkin bites, people seemed to enjoy them more!<\/p>\n

-While the RD was in a store meeting, I spent some time reviewing the\u00a0My Fitness Pal food logs of some of her clients to see how well they\u00a0were doing with their tracking and intake.<\/p>\n

-At the end of the night, the demo kitchen made up a healthy salmon recipe for\u00a0us and we passed out samples to the store customers.<\/p>\n

It was fun to get a look into another type of job that I could\u00a0potentially do as an RD, even if it was just for a couple of days \ud83d\ude42 The RD I was with was awesome and it definitely would have been nice to spend more time there. In addition to all the stuff they do at the store during the day, they\u00a0also teach a lot of classes on topics like Diabetes, weight loss,\u00a0etc…which helps them reach even more community members!<\/p>\n

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\nWeek 9
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I started my next rotation this past week. For the next 8 weeks I’ll\u00a0be at an outpatient clinic of the local children’s hospital called the\u00a0Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition. The clinic sees overweight\/obese\u00a0children\u00a0and also bariatric patients. The center is very collaborative and\u00a0patients see a nurse practitioner, an RD and a physical therapist when\u00a0they come in. The bariatric patients also see a psychologist and\u00a0social worker.<\/p>\n

On Monday and Tuesday I had to go to new employee orientation for the\u00a0hospital, even though I’m just an intern, not an employee.<\/p>\n

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For the\u00a0rest of the week I just spent time getting familiar with the clinic. I\u00a0familiarized myself with the computer system, observed a few sessions\u00a0the first day and then by the end of the week I was able to start\u00a0charting for the RD while she was\u00a0counseling\u00a0which was really good\u00a0practice because I haven’t done much online charting recently. In the\u00a0upcoming weeks I will start counseling the patients and their parents\u00a0on my own!<\/p>\n

One Wednesday of this week some of my fellow interns and I also helped with our first Simple Suppers- it’s a program that is offered at a school\/childcare center near campus that provides nutrition education for parents and also provides them with a nutritious meal. We do some of the food prep, but most of the ingredients are portioned and provided to the parents and kids at the table so that they can make the meal together. This week we had chips and veggie sticks with salsa and make your own guacamole, followed by taco salad.<\/p>\n

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Stay tuned to find out what other stuff I get to tackle during this rotation.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!
\n–Lindsay–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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