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SALMA HANNA

Porter Ranch,CA

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Renal Dietitian

DaVita. Inc
Encino, CA
10.2020 - Current
  • Acted as the MBD and Fluid manager in the facility. Helped support the clinic by driving and exceeding CMS goals each month.
  • Served as the DQI Champion, helped in maintaining high clinical standards amid a clinical coordinator (CC) leadership transition.
  • Considered as the clinical expert and internal thought-leader in the facility. Recognized as a key contributor to home rooms, core teams and facility health meetings (FHM).
  • Demonstrated DaVita's CORE values in all interactions and work presented. Received the "Service Excellence" core value award at the 2022 Fall DC meeting.
  • Continuously coached and provided in service to all teammates to ensure compliance with all regulatory standards and promoted high quality patient care.
  • Contributed as a preceptor that routinely trains assigned new hires and dietetic interns. Formally coached and trained other teammates within the region.

Clinical Dietitian

Iron Chef, Anaheim Regional Medical Center
Anaheim, California
11.2018 - 09.2020
  • Provided recommendations and assessed for adequacy and appropriateness of Enteral and Parenteral nutrition regimens for patients requiring nutrition support.
  • Delivered diet education for high risk patient groups including congestive heart failure, end stage renal disease, uncontrolled diabetes and oncology patients.
  • Collaborated with the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Foodservice staff on designing and implementing The International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI) at the hospital.
  • Provided in-service to all medical, nursing staff, clinical dietitians and foodservice staff on the new IDDSI standards and guidelines before the implementation phase.
  • Attended multidisciplinary meetings with department managers to identify trends and problem areas, improve the patient's perspective of their overall care and discuss ways on how to boost HCAHPS scores.

Clinical Dietitian

Healthcare Services Group Inc
Fullerton, CA
08.2018 - 05.2019
  • Attended stand up/stand down interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss the nutritional care of long term residents and participated in care conferences as needed.
  • Collaborated with other team members, as well as the patient/family, in the decision making process, the implementation and monitoring of the nutritional care plans and goals to improve or maintain nutritional status.
  • Routinely completed sanitation audits and inspected the kitchen for compliance with company policies, procedures, standards, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
  • Completed monthly tray accuracy audits for precision, quality and compliance with diet order.
  • Developed a calorically dense nourishment list for the facility's residents.

Clinical Dietitian

Dignity Health, San Bernardino Community Hospital
San Bernardino, California
01.2018 - 08.2018
  • Attended interdisciplinary ICU rounds and worked collaboratively with other health care professionals to implement nutrition interventions, and coordinate the nutrition care of the patient.
  • Completed monthly assessments/follow-ups for patients in the neuro-critical care unit. Evaluated enteral feeding prescriptions including formula type, amount, administration and other parameters based on specific patient needs. Attended weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss recommendations with family and staff.
  • Acted as preceptor to two dietetic interns and was responsible for teaching, mentoring and providing feedback when necessary to help meet clinical competency requirements.

Degreed Nutritionist

SDSU Research Foundation WIC Program
San Diego, California
07.2014 - 06.2017
  • Acted as an advocate by empowering women and children to make informed healthy food choices by providing them with information, support and directing them to relevant support services when appropriate.
  • Provided assessment, promotion and assistance to breastfeeding mothers to foster successful lactation.
  • Conducted educational classes to WIC participants on various nutritional topics, in group and individual settings.
  • Translated and reviewed Arabic nutrition education material for the California WIC program to ensure consistency, readability, cultural appropriateness, and common-language that is used in WIC clinics by our Arabic participants.
  • Completed an inter-professional evidenced based capstone project for my masters program at the SDSU WIC Program. The evidenced based capstone project was able to decrease wait time and total appointment duration of clinics by 35%.

Education

WIC Dietetic Internship

SDSU Research Foundation
2017

Master of Science - Healthcare Administration and Leadership

University of California San Francisco
2016

Didactic Program of Dietetics

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Bachelor of Science - Nutrition and Dietetics

American University of Beirut
2012

Skills

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Decision-making and problem-solving
  • Results driven
  • Committed to patient-centered care
  • Thrives in team environment
  • Time management and organization skills

Affiliations

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND)
California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (CAND)

Certification

Registered Dietitian (RD), Commission on Dietetics Association

Timeline

Renal Dietitian

DaVita. Inc
10.2020 - Current

Clinical Dietitian

Iron Chef, Anaheim Regional Medical Center
11.2018 - 09.2020

Clinical Dietitian

Healthcare Services Group Inc
08.2018 - 05.2019

Clinical Dietitian

Dignity Health, San Bernardino Community Hospital
01.2018 - 08.2018

Degreed Nutritionist

SDSU Research Foundation WIC Program
07.2014 - 06.2017

WIC Dietetic Internship

SDSU Research Foundation

Master of Science - Healthcare Administration and Leadership

University of California San Francisco

Didactic Program of Dietetics

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science - Nutrition and Dietetics

American University of Beirut

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