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Mary Ann's Specific Scope of Services
Why Hire a Consultant?Consulting: Main Topics
Mary Ann blends her advanced skills in nutrition, diabetes, marketing and business to meet the client's needs with cost-effective solutions. As an entrepreneur, her personal assets include creativity, exceptional interpersonal skills and an expertise in verbal and written communications for both professionals and in consumer areas.
  • Insurance Reimbursement for Professionals
  • Medical Nutrition Therapy
  • Nutrition Care Process and Model(Includes Outcomes Management)
  • Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) and National Standards
  • Weight Loss
  • Nutrition Specialist for Public Relations and Marketing Agencies
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  • ENHANCING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTSENROLLED INInternshipS and UniversitY PROGRAMS in:Nutrition and Dietetics, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology AND Social Work
  • Spokesperson and Vendor - Manufacturer Support
  • Writing for Publications, Websites and Individuals and Developing Educational Products
Mandi…this red addition is also new…web content to come:
  • Creation of Customized PowerPoint Presentations for YOUR OWN Program
  • Food & Recipe Analysis
Graduate Students|Community & Industry|Alumni|Endowment Fund
SCOPE OF SERVICES specific to ENHANCING SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTSENROLLED INInternshipS and UniversitY PROGRAMS in:
Nutrition and Dietetics
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacology
Social Work
Mary Ann’s advanced and varied “real world” skills, and years of hands-on experience can add tremendous value to your curriculum-based:
University nutrition and dietetics programs
Coordinated Undergraduate Programs (CUPs) in nutrition and dietetics
University medical school programs
University programs in nursing, pharmacology and social work
Post-graduate internship programs
Mary Ann can teach nutrition and dietetic students how to translate their didacticclassroom knowledge into real world skills…but not just skills that meet expectations…but advanced skills thatexceed employers’ expectations!
When students acquire this higher level of “skill expertise”, they are more fully prepared to meet the demands of today's work culture. To not only succeed, but thrive in this culture, the new graduate is expected to:
Perform her/his duties according to these newest evidence-based standards, protocols and state-of-art technologies
Have “skill-readiness” from the first day of employment
Be highly flexible in the new arena of ever-changing Medicare and insurance reimbursement, company re-organizations, down-sizing and maintaining multiple part-time jobs.
These skill-enhancing competencies can also tremendously help students prepare for dietetic and other types of post-graduate internships.
These goals can be achieved in a fiscally responsible way by retaining Mary Ann as a
Consultant, to provide specialized training workshops and/or seminars
Visiting Teaching Associate
Visiting Dietitian
Adjunct Faculty Member
In any of these capacities, Mary Ann can enhance your students’ real-world skills in these many diverse and important areas:
Clinical skills, to help ensure that the RD or nutrition professional:
Can provide state-of-the-art Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Self-Management Education that are each 100% consistent with the most up-to-date, evidence-basedprotocols, models and systems of care, clinical recommendations and professional standards, such as:
American Dietetic Association’s MNT Evidence-Based Guides for Practice
ADA’s Nutrition Care Process and Model
MNT Outcomes Management System
American Diabetes Association’s Clinical Recommendations for the Care and Treatment of Diabetes
National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSMT)
Requirements to become a Certified Diabetes Educator
Nutrition counseling skills, to help ensure that the RD or nutrition professional:
Understands the basic differences between the Patient Compliance Model and the Patient Empowerment Model, and the research study results, for eliciting patient behavior change
Can successfully apply the evidence-based Patient Empowerment Model, proven to result in improved for patient outcomes
Team building skills, to help ensure that the RD or nutrition professional:
Understands the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality Chasm Report to enhance the quality and effectiveness of chronic care teams, so as to improvepatient outcomes
Understands the significance of improved patient outcomes:
 Medically
Ethically
Financially(which links to job security)
Legislatively
Understands how to apply the IOM’s recommendations in a real-world setting
Professional development and legislative skills in nutrition and dietetics, to help ensure that the RD or nutrition professional knows and understands:
ADA’s Legislative and Public Policy Committee (LPPC) goals
The importance of evidence-based MNT practice work and MNT outcomes data to lawmakers who preside over Medicare and Medicaid legislation and policy making
How she/he can become directly involved in the implementation of ADA’s public policy initiatives with Medicare MNT, which can ultimately lead to dietetic professionals’:
Increased opportunities to practice their profession
Practice with greater job satisfaction
Practice with greater compensation
The Medicare’s newest venues involving MNT and how he/she can increase payment rate for MNT and increase the numbers of diseases for which MNT is reimbursed
Program development skills, which will help the RD or nutrition professional to:
Develop a certified DSMT Program
Develop a facility-based Outpatient MNT Clinic
Private practicebusiness skills, which will help the RD or nutrition professional to:
Know the basics concepts, tools and steps involved in starting one’s own private practice and/or consulting business
Successfully manageall business aspects of operating a private company, including:
Writing a business plan and marketing plan
Writing a business proposal
Negotiating and writing a contract
 Successfully employ networking to gain a competitive edge
Entrepreneurial traits and business and managerial skills, which will help the RD or nutrition professional to:
Write an effective resume and curriculum vitae
Give employers what they want, and therefore, stayed employed…not only survive, but thrive
Understand the role and responsibilities of supervisory positions:
Clinical Nutrition Manager
Outpatient MNT Clinic Manager
Food and Nutrition Services Director
Coordinator of DSMT Program
Successfully navigate the required functions of business (budgets, income and expense reports, etc.)
 Get paid what you’re worth by strategically setting MNT and DSMT fees
Excel at customer service
Ensure ongoing quality assurance and quality improvement with your business unit
Marketing skills, which will help the RD or nutrition professional to successfully market:
 Yourself: excel at job interviewing
Your MNT and/or DSMT program
Your private practice
Medicare and insurance reimbursement skills, which will help the RD or nutrition professional to:
Successfully obtain Medicare and private payer insurance reimbursement for:
Dietitian-provided MNT
Certified DSMT program
Insulin pumps
Blood glucose meters and testing supplies
Blood glucose testing supplies under pharmacy benefit management
Continuous glucose monitoring system
Hemoglobin A1c office testing
Enteral and parenteral nutrition feedings for non-hospitalized patients
Know how Medicare’s newest venues impact reimbursement for MNT:
Chronic Care Improvement Program
Beneficiary Preventive Physical Exam Upon Entry into Medicare
Value-Added Service on Your University Website
As a value-added service to your university, Mary Ann can also be retained as
“The Dietitian-Nutritionist Who Will Answer Your Questions by Email”
on your university web sites.
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