Registered Dietitian

YOMAYRA HANLON MS RD LD CNSC

Fort Worth, TX · *************@*****.*** · 817-***-****

September 2015- Present Clinical Dietitian Wise Health System- Decatur, TX

- Developed nutrition note template for new Electronic Medical Record and revised as needed, this was a major project with several different components, phases and lots of research that involved working closely with IT team to refine and implement.

- Constantly seeking reimbursement opportunities; ex. assist with determining EN/PN reimbursement related to discharge planning.

- Grew Medicare reimbursements by developing malnutrition screening tool that is easy to access by physicians and automatically allows flow of malnutrition statement into Provider notes.

- Develop and revise to maintain up to date nutrition education material and visual aids to meet patient needs both in English and Spanish.

- Translated PowerPoint presentations, from English to Spanish on nutrition-education material.

- Evaluated and edited pre-translated Spanish materials such as patient forms, company policies and hospital menus for patient meals to ensure they were easy to read, and ensure the translated form relayed the same message.

- Coordinate Symposium/Health Fairs, nutrition demos, classes

- Conduct group nutrition education classes to cardiac rehab, diabetes groups.

- Responsible for developing and implementing curriculum for training dietetic interns during clinical rotation. In doing so, Mentor and evaluate performance of interns. >25 dietetic interns from several different programs

- Update protocols and policy to reflect most current evidenced based research.

- Successful in carry-through of having bylaws of hospital changed to include dietitians with order writing privileges.

- Participate in various other inter-disciplinary committees-teams to improve the quality of care and fulfill the mission and vision of WHS. (IDDSI, ERAS, Antibiotic stewardship, Tumor Board, EMR implementation)

- Confers with kitchen staff in performing their duties to provide basic nutrition services such as recording food/fluid intake and calorie counts. In-services to medical and kitchen staff.

- Maintains advanced practice knowledge of current trends and developments in the field maintaining specialty certification by reading appropriate books, journals, and other literature and attending related seminars, conferences etc. to improve patient outcomes and systems.

- Provide disease specific medical nutrition therapy for patient’s inpatient and outpatient including oncology, renal, diabetes, cardiac, critical care, behavioral Health, and rehab areas.

- Perform nutrition assessment/evaluation and determine appropriateness of EN/PN.

- Manage nutrition support (EN/PN) by tailoring to patient’s disease specific needs

- Monitor EN/PN labs regularly and discuss issues with multi-disciplinary team.

- Team player in decisions along with providers, staff, patients, caregivers regarding aspects of nutrition support including products, supplies and therapy regimen.

- Confers with physicians, nursing and allied health professionals via documentation and verbal contact during clinics, medical rounds and team conferences, to provide comprehensive medical nutrition therapy to patients.

July 2013-May 2014 Graduate Assistant and Research Texas Woman’s University – Denton, TX

- Formulated and prepared test substances and placebos for double-blind blueberry research.

- Graded student assignments and organized paperwork

- Tutored undergraduate students in biochemistry

March 2013 – August 2013 Diet Clerk JPS Hospital- Fort Worth, TX

- Planned menus or diets based upon nutritional needs and established guidelines

- Examined diet orders and menus received from hospital units and processed new diets and changes as required.

- Assisted with patient’s food orders and ensured that food preferences also complied with their diet order

- Answered phone calls and relayed information to kitchen concerning meal changes and complaints

- Maintained updated patient cardexes and diet office records

September 2012 – June 2013 Community Health Navigator Meals On Wheels of Tarrant County- Fort Worth, TX

- Provided one on one counseling with home-bound older adults in their homes and assisted in setting behavior goals that would aid in prevention of undesirable incidental events. Such as set up simple interventions: hanging a calendar to decrease forgetting missed appointments; Making sure rugs are secured to prevent falls; Objects within safe reach; providing pill organizers to decrease missed medications.

- Talked with clients' over the phone on a routine basis to ensure follow-through and encouragement of

predetermined behavior goals

- Maintained accurate and detailed records of clients placed information into PAM software

EDUCATION

Master’s of Science in Nutrition Texas Woman’s University Denton, TX

LICENSURE

Registered Dietitian (RD) #86005726

Licensed Dietitian (LD) #DT83791

Board Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) #7935640

CPR Certified

LANGUAGE

Spanish Bilingual- written and oral

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