In my community rotation, I worked with WIC, as well as ISU Extension. Both experiences were AWESOME. WIC is a really great program that helps out low-income families purchase healthy foods. The dietitians provide nutrition education to everyone before they receive their checks. ISU Extension is an organization through the college that provides education on various topics to people in the community, among other projects. I had a big community project where I visited with food pantry directors in the community to find out what food items participants don't know how to use or cook at home. With the information I gathered, I put together lesson plans for the ISU nutrition educator to use when participants come in for food.
Food-service management isn't something I've ever had the desire to do and after spending five weeks in the food-service management rotation, my feelings still haven't changed. I was with Mercy Hospital food-service for one month and spent the remaining week with Sioux City school food-service. Some of the main things I did was taught a cross-contamination in-service for the dietary staff, conducted a survey to gather information from patients on food-service satisfaction as well as customer food-service satisfaction in the cafe, and planned a menu for an executive meeting and implemented it independently.
Monday was my first day back in clinical and I've had a great week so far. The RD's are great and I really love the freedom I have in this rotation.
Here's my 6 month schedule I posted on my wall. It's looking good!!
My desk at work
Our office - 5 of us
More to post later!
