Clinical
Franklin Square Hospital
Baltimore, MD January 14 - March 22, 2013
Franklin Square Hospital is a 380-bed acute care hospital is Baltimore, MD. This ten week rotation focused on acute care dietetics for patients with a variety of medical conditions using the nutrition care process. Patients were seen for RN consults, tube feed & TPN consults, MD consults, diet educations and medical condition/diagnosis. I was also able to teach a class on healthy eating after your joint replacement surgery. My rotations at Franklin Square included:
- 2 weeks inpatient oncology, with one day observation in outpatient oncology clinic.
- 3 weeks on medical/surgical floors covering GI, renal, oncology, gastric bypass, diabetes, & respiratory.
- 2 weeks cardiac.
- 1 week Intensive Care Unit.
- 2 weeks of staff relief covering my own med/surg floor, seeing 10-12 patients per day.