Dietetic Internship Program
VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System DI Program Rotations
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Supervised Practice Schedule
The VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System (VASNHS) Dietetic Internship program has two tracks to program completion. Both options have the same 42 week duration from early August through May with a minimum 1280 hours of supervised practice. Each intern will have 32-40 hours in rotation, or supervised practice experience weekly, with one didactic class day approximately every other week, up to 1680 hours total. No credit is given for prior learning experiences. Time off is earned at the rate of 4 hours every 2 weeks for both sick time and vacation time. Interns are paid for all time off taken during the internship, as long as vacation requested doesn't exceed vacation time earned. A one-week vacation is typically scheduled the week between the Christmas and New Year holidays, and a one-week vacation mid-April. Interns may be scheduled off for Federal Holidays depending on the assigned rotation.
DI Rotation Outline
Orientation - 2 weeks (first 2 weeks of the program)
- General Orientation
- Clinical Orientation and Training
- Introduction to Quality Improvement(QI)/Research
Food Service Management, Administration - 4 weeks
Community/Health Promotion - 5 weeks
- Whole Health programs
- Veteran and Employee outreach events
- Food Security programs
- Homeless veteran program community kitchen inspections
- Healthy Teaching Kitchen
Management, QI, Research - 4 weeks
Clinical - 24 weeks
- Medicine (Med/Surg)
- Inpatient Mental Health
- Critical Care (ICU/Surgery/Nutrition Support)
- Outpatient/Primary Care
- Residential Recovery and Rehabilitation
- Diabetes
- Dialysis
- Oncology and High Risk
- Home Based Primary Care
- MOVE! Weight Management Program
- Capstone experience
- Enrichment elective
Professional Practice - 1 week
- Final curriculum and competency completion
- Resume preparation
- Interview preparation
