Making some progress

I had something that I meant to share about last week.  The dietitian that I have been working often takes the patients in the ICU at CRMC because she really enjoys working with tube feedings and TPN's.  Anyways, we had a women admitted who was NPO for 5 days.  Her physician ordered a nutrition consult for tube feeding recommendations.  The tube feeding she had been on at the nursing home normally was not a formula that CRMC carries.  I was asked to figure out an alternative formula taking into account her estimated needs in the hospital and what she was getting while at the nursing home.  Anyways, the dietitian let me put my recommendations in the chart and everything.  I found out the next day that the physician used my recommendations :)  I just thought it was kind of neat to see the important role that we play in nutrition support and to be able to do everything mostly on my own.  Hope everyone gets through week 3 ok!