The week of 1/3/11-1/7/11 was spent trying to complete my food service administrative project with my partner, Anna. We will present our project to the food service director, my internship director, and department managers on January 31st. We had a very productive week. We developed training materials to in-service staff about how to use Isensix (a remote temperature monitoring system), made a PowerPoint, wrote a paper, and spent a lot of time working out the kinks of the system. Our project will be implemented on 1/12/11, meaning that when temperatures on refrigerators and freezers are out of range an alarm will go off that needs to be deactivated by an employee. That employee then needs to log their actions taken to solve the problem on the computer. This system saves time and paper. Instead of logging temperatures of hundreds of units everyday with paper and pencil, a manager can simply log onto the Isensix website and check all of the units on the computer and click 'checkpoint' to log the temperatures of every unit in the nutrition department.
On Thursday we had our intern class in the hyperbaric unit of the hospital. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is done in a large chamber and is used to heal diabetic and ulcer wounds, treat deep sea divers who may have suffered from air embolism following a dive, prepares athletes for higher endurance (Lance Armstrong, mountain climbers). While in a hyperbaric chamber, pressure is increased while completely pure oxygen is supplied to the patient. Increased pressure drives oxygen into damaged cells so they heal properly.
Friday night I went with an intern, Megan, to pick up her wedding dress. Afterwords, we both got huge, greasy 1/2 pound burgers.
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