{"id":8316,"date":"2013-03-23T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleangreenbean.com\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2015-01-19T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:18:47","slug":"dietetic-internship-weeks-21-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleangreenbean.com\/dietetic-internship-weeks-21-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietetic Internship: Weeks 21-24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Friends!<\/p>\n

Just popping in with a quick update to fill you in on the long-term care rotation of my internship! As usual, I’m behind on my recaps. In fact, I only have ONE MORE WEEK of my internship left. Which means I’ve already completed 3 weeks of my very last rotation.<\/p>\n

So, I thought I’d spend a few minutes filling you guys in on what I did in February. It was a lot of the same stuff day after day.<\/p>\n

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{sign on my preceptor’s door}<\/p>\n

The place that I did my longterm care rotation was actually a \u00a0Transitional Care and Rehab facility. It’s both a long-term care facility, with a dementia unit, and a rehabilitation facility. Long-term care is not my favorite thing, but luckily for me, my preceptor primarily covered the rehab units…which I liked a lot better. There was a Diet Tech that covered most of the LTC patients, and then since my preceptor was an RD, she handled some of the more complicated cases in that involved tube feeds, serious pressure ulcers, etc.<\/p>\n

I liked the rehab units because there was such a wide range of patients. We saw older patients recovering from fractures and surgeries, patients with cirrhosis, patients recovering from motor vehicle accidents and much more.<\/p>\n

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\n{I had a 45 min drive each way so I saw a lot of pretty sunrises. Bonus!}<\/p>\n

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