Tammy Burton-Fikar

Provided in-center education and counseling to patients with end-stage kidney disease. Working with a team of clinicians in developing and monitoring short and long-term care goals, which includes assessing their nutritional status, co-creating individual goals and objectives, monitoring. patient’s nutritional status, laboratory values, dialysis kinetics, and response to nutritional interventions; making appropriate modifications and recommendations as indicated.

Specializations: consulting dietitian in long-term care/rehabilitation centers, provide short-term and coverage in various facilities, such as, Bryan Bariatric Advantage. Hosting wellness programs for hospitals and communities.

Develop educational/training materials for in services and seminars.

Responsible for high-risk patient assessments, MDS documentation, care planning, working with the Inter-disciplinary Team ‘s Weight, Wound and Infection Control, writing of policies and procedures, providing quarterly in- services to dietary and nursing staff, overseeing the dietary department with enforcement of sanitation and safety standards to meet State and Federal regulations.