Latasha Minor
Registered Dietitian
Decatur,Alabama
Summary
Knowledgeable Clinical Dietitian with 22 years educating patients and families, monitoring patient nutrition and managing physician-ordered diets. Demonstrated success in collaborating with clinicians to optimize patient plans. Thrive in challenging, fast-paced settings when managing multiple tasks and working with various patients. Goal-driven Healthcare Administration professional well-versed in recruiting, training and managing employees to provide exceptional resident services. Highly organized and hardworking with excellent planning and program management skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dietitian Consultant
Nutritious Lifestyles
Frederick, Maryland
01.2023 - Current
- 40hr/weekly
- Possess expert knowledge of nutritional needs for high-risk patients in inpatient and outpatient settings
- Provide appropriate nutritional education
- Identify appropriate nutritional risk of patients and intervene based on established criteria
- Assess patient's nutritional status, develop plans of care, and evaluate outcomes
- Monitor nutritional status, laboratory values, adherence to diet education and medication therapy.
- Completed detailed nutritional assessments of each patient based on health history, medical conditions and energy requirements
Fresenius Medical Care
Huntsville, Madison, AL
06.2019 - 01.2023
- 60hr/weekly
- Manage overall operations for nursing services and patient care of multiple chronic hemodialysis facilities
- Function as CEO and responsible for enforcing policies and procedures, and ensuring patients’ bill of rights are fulfilled
- Provide coaching and counseling to team in development and conflict resolution
- Execute leadership and guidance for following Human Resource functions: compensation, employee engagement, and organizational change
- Participate in budget formulation and review concerning personnel and scheduling needs with patient load
- Meet monthly with Medical Director to review facility clinical outcomes, staffing and facility issues
- Oversee nursing and technical services for patient treatment and ensure that appropriate adjustments in treatment plans are developed and implemented to meet compliance with state and federal governing agencies
- Manage all teammate employment areas such as hiring, promoting, job performance evaluations, professional development, teammate satisfaction surveys, and disciplinary actions
- Ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations for patient care and services.
Manager
Fresenius Medical Care
Huntsville, Madison, AL
01.2017 - 06.2019
- 40hr/weekly
- Functioning as renal nutritionist at two Fresenius facilities
- Assessed patient knowledge of renal diet guidelines and disease processes, provide initial education and ongoing renal education for 120-160 patients
- Supervised and directed dietetic interns throughout didactic rotation for Oakwood university
- Developed rapport with renal dialysis patients and exercise motivational interviewing techniques for goal management
- Participated in a clinical manager’s team meeting to present best demonstrated albumin practices or improved clinical outcomes
- Maintained monthly documentation in accordance with State and
- Fresenius guidelines for clinical charting
- Collaborated effectively with interdisciplinary teams on clinical outcomes and laboratory assessments
- Provided nutrition in service and training to facility teams.
Registered Dietitian
Davita
10.2008 - 01.2017
- Facility Administration/, 50hr/weekly
- Manage overall operations for nursing services and patient care of multiple chronic hemodialysis facilities
- Function as CEO and responsible for enforcing policies and procedures, and ensuring patients’ bill of rights are fulfilled
- Facilitated opening of DeNovo/JV dialysis clinic deficiency free and maintained 5-Star facility ranking during 6 year tenure
- Recognized throughout organization as clinical leader for maintaining facility in top 5 ranking throughout nation
- Provided Kidney Smart Education to partnering physician groups and t local community
- Guest speaker at regional and divisional level training on best demonstrated practices for clinical outcomes
- Significantly improved employee engagement by 100%, and maintained clinic retention at 92%
- Participated in project management initiatives for collaboration on; retention improvement, effective recruiting, selection, hiring, and training processes
- Decrease onboarding time of all new hires within region and improving company retention by 8%
- Participate in budget formulation and review concerning personnel and scheduling needs with patient load
- Meet monthly with Medical Director to review facility clinical outcomes, staffing and facility issues
- Oversee nursing and technical services for patient treatment and ensure that appropriate adjustments in treatment plans are developed and implemented to meet compliance with State and Federal agencies
- Develop rapport with patients and manage patient concerns appropriately
- Manage all teammate employment areas such as hiring, promoting, job performance evaluations, professional development, teammate satisfaction surveys, and disciplinary actions
- Ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations for patient care and services
- Assess nutritional status to determine appropriate nutrition interventions and recommendations, develop individualized medical nutrition therapy and meal plans, monitor nutritional status, laboratory values, adherence to diet education and medication therapy.
Education
Ph.D. - Business Administration And Management
Northcentral University
San Diego, CA 07.2015 - Current
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of North Alabama
Florence, AL 07.2015 - 05.1999
Bachelor of Science - Dietetics
Alabama A & M University
Normal, AL 05.1995 - 05.1998
Skills
Experienced and highly developed transformational leader with over 19 yearsundefined
Affiliations
American Dietetic Association
Commission on Dietetic Registration
Alabama State Board of Dietetics
Certification
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Timeline
Dietitian Consultant
Nutritious Lifestyles
01.2023 - Current
Fresenius Medical Care
06.2019 - 01.2023
Manager
Fresenius Medical Care
01.2017 - 06.2019
Ph.D. - Business Administration And Management
Northcentral University
07.2015 - Current
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of North Alabama
07.2015 - 05.1999
Registered Dietitian
Davita
10.2008 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Dietetics
Alabama A & M University
05.1995 - 05.1998
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
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