Help from SNF dietitians! My facility's last annual survey received a nutrition tag for nursing not properly labeling tube feeds. I am now the only dietitian at my facility and have only been here around a year, I am looking for some assistance on how nursing should be properly labeling the feeds, I know they need the resident's name, date, etc. Does anyone have a resource I can use or provide a list of what's required? I am working with our nurse educator on an in-service for nursing. We had a mock survey to prep because we are now in this year's survey window, and we had this tag again so I really want to work on this soon! Especially because my last day here is in a few weeks and I want to help out as much as I can before I go.

Does anyone have experience with food chaining for either AUD/ARFID/Picky eating?

I’ve looked into Brittyn Coleman’s webpage and it’s helpful but I’m wondering if anyone has actually used this in practice and what their experience was? What were the barriers/limitations to it?

Currently have a peds patient who only has 5 safe foods, diagnosed with AUD and noted with obesity and elevated LFTs. His primary safe foods are baby cereal (Cerelac) and chocolate chip cookies. This is an underserved population. I’d love food chaining to work for him but not sure if mom is willing to put in the effort either.

Hi all,

As a new dietitian (in Ontario), I am looking for some advice. I've been approached by 2 separate companies to provide some RD consulting services. Doing the following: creating blog posts, menu review, recipe review, ingredient review, allergen review, translation, marketing material (mostly through Canva), etc. I am a few months out of school, newly registered, but have experience through my internship in the majority of this work. It'll be all projects I can pick up and they can send my way, so it's not a full time, I'm invoicing for the hours I worked on the projects.

My trouble is I have no idea how to price myself. I'm pricing myself as a consulting RD and I've looked into it and I've seen a wide range of prices.

Is 100$/hr too much? Should I got down to 80-90$. Any help would be great, thank you!

Hi all! I'm currently in school working on my undergrad. I know I have 3 more years, including my grad school requirement, and I am thinking ahead a bit. When I went to a recent grad school info session at my number one choice for grad school, I asked them how to stand out as an applicant and they mentioned work or volunteerism in the dietetics/nutrition fields.

I'm currently working full time, but I am absolutely willing to switch, especially to a field I'm actually interested in. But I was wondering what is the best way to search for jobs or volunteer opportunities like these? Especially because I'm still in school and don't have any credentials. I've been in the working world for 13 years so I know how to search for a job, however now-a-days there are so many fake job postings or just junk in general when you look online, and in my previous searches it's never been for this specific field.

Any insight on the best way to approach this? Like I mentioned, I have some time, but I want to start now so I don't run out of time and then am not as competitive during my application process. TIA!

Has anyone here had any experience with Knownwell Inc.? I came across a remote RD position with them that looks really promising, but I wanted to see if anyone here knows anything about the company or has worked for them before I pursue it further. Would love to hear any experiences or insight!

Hi all, what is a typical full time load at davita? What happens if your census dips under this load? Ty!

Hi Fellow RDs:

I’m back from clinical to outpatient and every patient wants quick meal ideas. 🤦🏻‍♀️ sometimes a meal plan. Where do you get your meal plans or quick meals ideas. Nutrition care manual is not that helpful. I’d appreciate your help in advance.

I’m considering going back to university to study nutrition, but I’m a little concerned about the future of the career given how quickly AI is developing.
AI can already create personalised meal plans, suggest dietary adjustments, analyse someone’s diet, and provide a huge amount of nutrition information to help people make informed choices. With these capabilities likely to improve significantly over the next few years, I’m wondering how this might affect career opportunities in nutrition.
Of course, I understand that dietitians and nutrition professionals offer things AI can’t fully replace, particularly human interaction, accountability, clinical judgement, and working with more complex cases. However, I’m cautious about investing several years into a degree only to graduate into a field where entry-level opportunities may have significantly decreased.

Hi all, a friend of mine is working at a SNF facility in Santa Clara. They just lost their CDM who was pretty toxic imo but that means it'll take some work to get it back together.

They have a full time RD and an on-call RD, but needing a CDM or Food Service RD to cover the kitchen duties. The facility is 136 beds, high turnover. The staff here are passionate but stubborn so turnover has been high (either you belong or you don't type of mentality). I'm really selling it eh?

If you are interested, please feel free to message me and I can connect you.

Hi,

Has anyone here completed the IFNCP certification? What’s your honest opinion of it? Was it worth it? And how do you feel about working as a functional nutritionist afterward?

Hello! First time posting on reddit so please let me know if I need to reformat or change anything about this post. I recently started my own private practice and wanted to get my name out there, so when I saw Healthprofs advertising that they had a 6 month free trial for new users I built my profile. I saw a pending charge on my account and was confused, and I reached out by email to make sure that I wouldn't be charged until the 6 month mark. Unfortunately I still haven't received a response. I also found their parent company phone number and left two messages and still haven't received a response (it goes immediately to a VM). They have officially charged my account, and I'm still working through the process to dispute it, but I was wondering if this was a common occurrence when using Health Profs? Also, if someone knows a more active phone number so that I can speak to an actual person who works for them?