This supervised clinical nutrition therapy experience guides students as they build on their knowledge and skills to become competent as entry-level dietitian practitioners. Students work with designated preceptors. This is an opportunity to develop skills in providing dietetic services in acute care, long term care and ambulatory care settings. They will function as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team. The student integrates content from the nutrition therapy supervised experience of NFS 497.
Students work with designated preceptors.
Students are required to review and interpret current timely issues of nutrition and dietetic research. Multi-media credibility, legislative issues, and ethics related to the area of nutritional health throughout the life span in the local, national and worldwide populations.