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- Department
- Technology
- Nurses
- Orientation
- Scheduling
- Educational Opportunities
Department
Department Description: Clinical Nutrition Services identifies patients at nutritional risk and provides nutritional assessment and intervention to improve their ability to heal. Every patient admitted to CCMC is screened for nutritional risk by a diet technician. Once identified, a registered dietitian(R.D.) will review all aspects of the patient including growth, ability to eat and tolerate food, increased nutritional needs related to disease, medications that may decrease utilization of nutrients and nutrition educational needs of the family. The R.D. works with the medical team on rounds to help put in place the nutritional care plan.
R.D.’s also counsel patients on an outpatient basis as referred by their primary care provider. Issues include obesity, failure to thrive, food allergy, hypercholesterolemia, etc. Outpatient R.D.’s can be found in Endocrinology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Genetics, the H.I.V. Clinic and the Feeding Team. R.D.’s provide outpatient nutritional monitoring and care for patients on the ketogenic diet for decreasing seizures.
Department Description: Clinical Nutrition Services identifies patients at nutritional risk and provides nutritional assessment and intervention to improve their ability to heal. Every patient admitted to CCMC is screened for nutritional risk by a diet technician. Once identified, a registered dietitian(R.D.) will review all aspects of the patient including growth, ability to eat and tolerate food, increased nutritional needs related to disease, medications that may decrease utilization of nutrients and nutrition educational needs of the family. The R.D. works with the medical team on rounds to help put in place the nutritional care plan.
R.D.’s also counsel patients on an outpatient basis as referred by their primary care provider. Issues include obesity, failure to thrive, food allergy, hypercholesterolemia, etc. Outpatient R.D.’s can be found in Endocrinology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Genetics, the H.I.V. Clinic and the Feeding Team. R.D.’s provide outpatient nutritional monitoring and care for patients on the ketogenic diet for decreasing seizures.
Technology
The Nutrition Staff uses nutrition software to analyze food eaten so that any deficiencies, especially in micronutrients can be identified and treated.
The Nutrition Staff uses nutrition software to analyze food eaten so that any deficiencies, especially in micronutrients can be identified and treated.
Staff
Includes most of the pediatric nutrition experts in CT. We are recognized for advanced practice and our years of experience ranges from 2 years to 35 years.
Includes most of the pediatric nutrition experts in CT. We are recognized for advanced practice and our years of experience ranges from 2 years to 35 years.
Orientation
We provide individualized and comprehensive orientation programs for new graduates as well as experienced nurses to ensure that our work is approached with competence and confidence.
We provide individualized and comprehensive orientation programs for new graduates as well as experienced nurses to ensure that our work is approached with competence and confidence.
Scheduling
R.D.’s work Monday through Friday and rotate call on weekends and holidays. They come in for any new very high nutritional risk patient identified.
Diet techs are here 7 days a week and cover 2 shifts/day: 6:45am-3:15pm or 9:30am-6:00 am.
Nutrition Assistant (prepares all formula for the hospital and makes appointments for all outpatients): Works 12:30pm- 9:00 pm Monday –Friday
Educational Opportunities
Shadowing for a day with any of our positions is possible and is arranged through the education department.
A Dietetic Internship is available for the academic year, post graduate, in conjunction with the candidate’s college.
All new departmental staff completes extensive competencies to assure that that are fully competent in pediatric care which is considered advanced practice by The American Dietetic Association.
Shadowing for a day with any of our positions is possible and is arranged through the education department.
A Dietetic Internship is available for the academic year, post graduate, in conjunction with the candidate’s college.
All new departmental staff completes extensive competencies to assure that that are fully competent in pediatric care which is considered advanced practice by The American Dietetic Association.
