Wendy Alder
Millbury,Ohio
Summary
Knowledgeable and experienced clinical dietitian with 30+ years experience. Provides nutrition care for patients from various acuity levels with diverse medical complexities in critical care, step-down, and inpatient rehab units.
Provides a positive environment with effective interpersonal communication and collaboration expertise with various disciplines and departments for excellent patient care.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Dietitian
Promedica Toledo Hospital
08.1993 - Current
- Identify hospitalized patients in need of nutrition intervention based on diet, length of hospital stay, dietary modifications, weight history
- Complete detailed nutritional assessments of each patient based on health history, medical conditions and macro/micronutrient requirements. Develop nutrition plan based on assessment
- Provide consistent follow up for patients throughout hospitalization
- Determine nutrition plans for post discharge with consideration to specific lifestyles, physiology and medical concerns of patients
- Assess patients for enteral and parenteral nutrition support, manage tube feeding regimens, oversee TPN orders with collaboration of nursing staff, physicians, speech therapists and patient/ family support
- Transition patients from tube feeding support to oral diet to maintain nutrition needs with close monitoring and ongoing assessment
- Educate patients for home tube feeding regimens based on individual lifestyle
- Work closely with speech therapists for patients with dysphagia for safest food regimen to meet nutrition needs
- Assist patients with meal plan development, addressing individualized dietary requirements
- Provide nutrition education for patients with various medical diagnoses
- Develop and maintain courteous and effective working relationships
- Have experience in providing nutrition care in the following areas of inpatient hospital: Neurology, Med/Surg, Oncology, Surgical ICU, Heart Vascular ICU,Medical ICU, Pediatrics ,Trauma, Cardiac, short term rehab
- Participate in daily multidisciplinary rounds for Neuro ICU area
- Monitor patients' nutrition status in acute rehab hospital
- Provide coverage for coworkers in department per department policy
- Mentor college interns from Bowling Green State University and Eastern Michigan University
- Provide shadowing experiences to high school and college students
- Train new dietitian employees
- Co-managed schedule for Dietitian office
- Taught cardiac and weight management nutrition classes
Education
Completed 10 Month Internship - Dietetic Program
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati, OH1993
Bachelor of Science - Dietetics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH06.1992
Skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Thrive in challenging, fast-paced settings
- Empathetic and compassionate to provide support to patients in difficult situations
- Able to prioritize workload to complete tasks efficiently
- Able to individualize patient education with consideration of the individual's social, economic, educational, and emotional status
- Effective communication skills
- Collaborates well with other departments to provide multidisciplinary patient care as well as able to work independently
- Aware of the importance of continuum of care
- Keen ability to problem solve
- Resourceful
- Able to multitask
- Reliable and flexible
- Able to learn quickly and adapt to new situations
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with speech language pathologists and dietary management in implementation of National Dysphagia Diet guidelines for hospital menu
- Nominee for Sodexo Compassion Award
- Promedica Employee of the Month recipient
- Assisted in development of tube feeding management orders for hospital computer system in multidisciplinary setting
- Helped develop hospital policy for tube feeding management for hospitalized patients
- Provided training for nursing staff regarding basic nutrition screening and educated nursing staff on dietitian's role in patient care
- Served as guest speaker for various community programs- Boy Scouts, schools, church groups
Communities
Member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church - participated in Family Life and Vision Coordination Task Force committees
Served as Band Trustee in Lake Local Schools Music Boosters, Music Booster member helping with various fundraising events
Volunteer at Lake Local Schools for academic and extracurricular events
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Clinical Dietitian
Promedica Toledo Hospital
08.1993 - Current
Completed 10 Month Internship - Dietetic Program
Good Samaritan Hospital
Bachelor of Science - Dietetics
University of Cincinnati
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