Showing posts with label Dietetic Internship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dietetic Internship. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Management Rotation is Over!!?!

Of my 1200 internship hours I'm officially 400 down!
This rotation has been such an amazing experience. I met some truly incredible people and worked on projects that I know will stay in place long after I'm gone, and that is an amazing feeling!
I know I've only done ONE of my three rotations so far... but this one is by far my favorite!!!
It's reassured me that I picked the right path for myself, and I'm SO glad I'm on it.

This little last-day surprise made my week :-)

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Special Event

One project required in management rotation is a special event/business plan. My special event was on Valentine's Day! I got to work extra early and decorated the crap out of the cafeteria. There were heart balloon bouquets tied to every available post imaginable, huge heart banners hanging from the ceiling (fire hazard? meh), red paper lanterns, streamers and rose petals all over the place! It looked like the inside of a Pepe Le Pew love dream.

This is not nearly all of it! This is just the banner but I
thought it was pretty cool!

I had a strawberry salad for the special, and a decorate-your-own giant heart-shaped cookie for desert! They were these foot long heart shaped sugar cookies in boxes. You buy one, then take it to the decorating station, where you add frosting and Valentine's themed toppings. Most people wanted someone to do the decorating for them (that's me) and make a border with icing and write the note or name on the inside. I decorated cookies for maybe four straight hours. I REALLY wish I had taken pictures of some of the cookies, but I was just way too busy to think about it!


My Strawberry Salad with dried cranberries, candied walnuts and
 mandarin oranges with a choice of poppy seed or raspberry dressing

The pile of dismantled decorations




Now I get to finish the Business Plan, and then that's one more project out of the way! Oh, and did I mention that we completely sold out of cookies by the end of lunch rush?! Success!

Monday, January 16, 2012

...and it Begins!


365 days

32 credit hours

1200 intern hours

1 RD exam

Eight hours down, 1192 to go! Today was my first day as an intern at Saint Anthony Hospital. I will be working on my management rotation for the first 400 hours, which basically means a lot of time in the kitchen. Night-time grad classes on top of that mean I'm busy...all the time! Good news, everyone at the hospital is so incredibly nice and ...I get all the free coffee I can drink! And since I don't get paid, I consider this treatment highly necessary ;)


My Hospital in Downtown OKC