University of Kentucky, Orientation: Week 1 Welcome to my blog! My name is Jada Linton and over the next 7 months I will be in 3 locations. I will begin at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, KY for my community rotation. Then I will travel to Owensboro, Kentucky for my food service rotation with Owensboro public schools. Lastly, I will be in Louisville, KY again with the Jewish Hospital for my clinical rotation. I am officially a dietetic intern and couldn’t be more excited for the new opportunities that I will experience in the upcoming months! Rotations: Community: James Graham Brown Cancer Center~Louisville, KY~ January.16-March. 2 Foodservice: Owensboro Public Schools~Owensboro, KY~ March. 5- May. 11 Clinical: The Jewish Hospital~ Louisville, KY~ May. 21- July. 27 This week was orientation week and we had a lot of time to reflect on the book we read over winter break: The Energy Bus. We also went over all course materials, paper work, questions, past intern reflections, a farm tour, and a service project. This week was a great chance to come together as a team and tie up any loose ends before we all departed to our respective locations for our first rotation! During the book club discussions we met the following competency: the CRDN 2.3 Demonstrate active participation, teamwork and contributions in group settings. On the first day of orientation we started at 8:30 am. We all introduced ourselves to the group. We also had a wonderful overview of the Nutrition Focused Physical Exam done by Katie Lewis, RD. We had the chance to familiarize ourselves with his process by pairing up to do a physical exam on the person sitting next to us. The nutrition-focused physical examination (NFPE) can identify or confirm muscle wasting, subcutaneous fat loss, and edema and clarify information gathered during the medical record review (Green Corkins. (2015). Nutrition-focused physical examination in pediatric patients. PubMed). The process was new to me, and I was happy we had the chance to try this before our internship. We now have basic knowledge about how to begin the Nutrition Focused Physical Exam. We started at the head and worked down to the toes for the physical exam. Ms. Lewis made sure to tell us to use our three fingers between the thumb and pinky finger to conduct the exam. The orbital fat pads are right under the eyes. The orbital fat pads should be bouncy to the touch, and in someone who is wasting the skin would be less elastic. After we finished up the physical exam we had past interns come to talk to us about their internship experience. I always love this part because you can see how much growth the interns have experienced from the way they talk about how they felt about the internship before and after completing it. After the internship reflections we continued with our schedule and Dr. Plasencia introduced our DHN 518 course. We went over the research paper for DHN 518 and possible questions we could think of pertaining to the class. After this we had Mrs. Gladstone walk us through any remaining paper work. This was helpful for the people who could not register for all of their classes. I'm glad our program is so thorough with making sure we have all of the materials we need completed before moving on the next step. Mrs. Gladstone always makes some of the more complicated matters much easier by coming organized and prepared! On day 2 of orientation we went over the rest of the courses we will be enrolled in during the internship: Community, Medical Nutrition therapy, and Food Service. Chef bob made us an amazing on campus lunch. The sweet potatoes were definitely my favorite part! Sweet potatoes are my favorite fall vegetable. On this day we had a farm tour of Elmwood stock Farm. I rode to the farm with Lauren and Melanie. When we arrived at the farm it was a little chilly outside. The most interesting part of the tour was finding out that the public funds the farm. It was also interesting to know that everything is organic, and if needed there are places they can order ladybugs and praying mantis’ from to spread across the farm to help ward of pests! Finally on the last day we had the chance to complete a service project at God's pantry! It was so fun, we re-packed 967 pounds of flour!! I'm glad I had the chance to bond with the UK SPP group and complete this service project. Together we can solve hunger and we did a service project to help push Lexington in the right direction! One competency that I did well with was the CRDN 2.3 Demonstrate active participation, teamwork and contributions in group settings. We completed these competencies during each group discussion, and service project. One that I need to improve on would be: CRDN 3.2-Conduct nutrition focused physical assessment. I’m glad Ms. Lewis gave us a brief overview of the Nutrition Focused Physical Exam; however, I would like to be more comfortable with it! Competencies completed: CRDN 2.3 Demonstrate active participation, teamwork and contributions in group settings. CRDN 3.2-Conduct nutrition focused physical assessment. Sources: Green Corkins. (2015). Nutrition-focused physical examination in pediatric patients. PubMed.
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Sammy Pigg
1/20/2018 05:21:46 pm
Hey Jada, I enjoyed your post about our orientation week! I too want to improve on the competency: CRDN 3.2-Conduct nutrition focused physical assessment. Katie Lewis did a wonderful job of walking us through the process. Hopefully during our internships we will be able to practice and improve upon this skill. Why is it important to perform a nutrition focused physical exam rather than just asking the patient about their history?
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