This week, being that many of the VA dietitians wanted to take some vacation, myself and two other interns are doing 'staff relief' where we cover for one of the dietitians who we've been with already. This week I am Karen, the extended care dietitian. Since Karen's been gone for four days now, there was a long list of people to see, lots of menus to correct, plus a few complaints from patients which made for a really busy day. It's the first time I've cut short my lunch and the first time I've had to stay after to finish everything ... maybe I'd rather just be an intern.
On the up-side, and it really wasn't a bad day despite the busy-ness, it's very encouraging to be able to do the work of a dietitian relatively unsupervised (an RD still has to co-sign my notes) and feel like I know what I'm doing. I guess this internship is serving it's purpose!
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