Gloria Adjei Yeboah
Nutritionist/Dietitian
Kumasi
Summary
Knowledgeable Clinical Dietitian with two years educating patients and families, monitoring patient nutrition and managing physician-ordered diets. I have demonstrated success in collaborating with clinicians to optimize patient plans. I thrive in challenging, fast-paced settings when managing multiple tasks and working with various patients.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Nutritionist
SAQS Healthcare
Kumasi
02.2023 - Current
- Prepare diet plan for patients with obesity, hypertension and diabetes,
- Nutritional counselling to anemic pregnant women.
- Managed multiple nutritional educational groups to increase client nutrition knowledge.
- Coordinated and implemented nutrition programs within community to promote healthy eating.
- Completed detailed nutritional assessments of each patient based on health history, medical conditions and energy requirements.
- Assisted patients clients with mean plan development, addressing individualized dietary requirements.
Nutrition Consultant
Labhill Diagnostic Limited
Tamale
10.2022 - 01.2023
- Offer nutritional advice to anemic pregnant women
- Documented clinical findings and entered pertinent health data for processing, recordkeeping, and use by other medical professionals.
- Counseled clients on nutrition issues such as obesity, eating disorders, tube feeding management, failure to thrive and feeding dysfunction.
- Educated clients about long-term health benefits of balanced diets and exercise programs.
- Provided in-depth information on nutritional care to maximize health.
- Provided appropriate follow-up according to patient's individual treatment goals and referred patients to outpatient and community services as appropriate.
- Completed detailed nutritional assessments of each patient based on health history, medical conditions and energy requirements.
Nutritionist
Tamale Central Hospital
Tamale
10.2021 - 09.2022
- Diagnosis and management of severe acute malnutrition, Provide dietary/nutritional counselling for caregivers, pregnant women and lactating mothers, Prepare therapeutic feeds like F100 and F75, Prepare diet plan for in-patient and out-patient clients.
- Partnered with interdisciplinary care team to address resident nutrition programs.
- Created and prepared visual aids, manuals and other materials used in teaching.
- Collaborated with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of clients.
- Calculated, revised and verified proper enteral and parenteral feedings to meet nutritional needs.
- Provided medical nutrition therapy to individuals and groups with chronic illnesses.
- Monitored patient progress and documented nutritional information in patient charts and records.
Education
BSc - Community Nutrition
University for Development Studies
Tamale 09.2017 - 05.2021
WASSCE Certificate - General Science
Collins Senior High School
Kumasi 09.2014 - 05.2017
Skills
Communication Skills, Organisational skills, IT skills, Good timeundefined
Affiliations
Allied Health Professionals Council, Ghana.
Additional Information
Academic publication: Nutrition knowledge, cooking practices, and consumption of indigenous leafy vegetables among households in Sagnarigu Municipality, Ghana. Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development | Vol. 8, Issue 2, December 2022.
https://gjstd.org/index.php/GJSTD/article/view/372
Timeline
Nutritionist
SAQS Healthcare
02.2023 - Current
Nutrition Consultant
Labhill Diagnostic Limited
10.2022 - 01.2023
Nutritionist
Tamale Central Hospital
10.2021 - 09.2022
BSc - Community Nutrition
University for Development Studies
09.2017 - 05.2021
WASSCE Certificate - General Science
Collins Senior High School
09.2014 - 05.2017
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