Wednesday-day 3

Yowza! I got to try my muscles at assessing two patients today! Pressure is on! There is so much going on in a chart and you have to see a big picture and be able to then narrow it down to the issues pertinent to nutrition. I am still learning my way about finding information both in the chart and on the computer. Do know how to do energy requirement, tube feed and TPN calculations as if it was your own name! It makes for that much less things to worry about.

The awe of today came from the foodservice department. OSH is a Center for Excellence of the Morrison company. This means that whenever Morrison hires a new person they send it to OSH to be trained. That good! If you need more, here's this: OSH foodservice has very low turnover, and some people have worked there over 10 years. This makes for a great teamwork- and I even heard them sing a pep song before service today.

Yet another interesting tidbit: to get patient satisfaction high, the catering associate who is at bedside taking patient's order for upcoming meal also prepares this patient's tray and serves it to ensure continuity of service. I assisted in tray assessment today and one of the patients told us he has never had a better service (and care) despite being at few other hospitals.

Morrison is a part of Compass group (http://compass-usa.com/Pages/Home.aspx). This is the second time I hear about this organization, from a different perspective (I did a project on Eurest in undergrad dietetics) and I only heard great things from both. If you need a satisfying carreer- look up Morrison Management Specialists (http://www.iammorrison.com/)