Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 4 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION › Chapter 116 - DIETITIANS › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 116.2 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
(1) Academy--The Academy of
				  Nutrition and Dietetics, which is the national professional association of
				  dietitians.
(2) Accreditation
				  Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)--The Academy of
				  Nutrition and Dietetics' accrediting agency for dietetic education
				  programs.
(3) Accredited
				  facilities--Facilities accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
				  Health Care Organizations.
(4)
				  Act--The Licensed Dietitian Act, Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 701.
(5) Advisory Board--Dietitians Advisory
				  Board.
(6) Certified facilities,
				  agencies, or organizations--Facilities, agencies, or organizations certified by
				  federal agencies.
(7)
				  Commission--The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation.
(8) Commission on Dietetic Registration
				  (CDR)--The Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for
				  the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, is the agency that evaluates
				  credentials, administers proficiency examinations, and issues certificates of
				  registration to qualifying dietitians, and is a member of the National
				  Commission on Health Certifying Agencies. The Commission on Dietetic
				  Registration also approves continuing education activities.
(9) Department--The Texas Department of
				  Licensing and Regulation.
(10)
				  Dietitian--A person licensed under the Act.
(11) Dietetics--The professional discipline
				  of applying and integrating scientific principles of food, nutrition,
				  biochemistry, physiology, management, and behavioral and social sciences under
				  different health, social, cultural, physical, psychological, and economic
				  conditions to the proper nourishment, care, and education of individuals or
				  groups throughout the life cycle to achieve and maintain the health of people.
				  The term includes, without limitation, the development, management, and
				  provision of nutrition services.
(12) Executive director--The executive
				  director of the department.
(13)
				  Licensed dietitian (LD)--A person licensed under the Act.
(14) Licensed facilities, agencies, or
				  organizations--Facilities, agencies, or organizations licensed by state
				  agencies.
(15) Licensee--A person
				  who holds a current license as a dietitian issued under the Act.
(16) Nutrition assessment--The evaluation of
				  the nutritional needs of individuals and groups based on appropriate
				  biochemical, anthropometric, physical, and dietary data to determine nutrient
				  needs and recommend appropriate nutritional intake including enteral and
				  parenteral nutrition. Nutrition assessment is an important component of medical
				  nutrition therapy.
(17) Nutrition
				  counseling--Advising and assisting individuals or groups on appropriate
				  nutritional intake by integrating information from the nutrition assessment
				  with information on food and other sources of nutrients and meal preparation
				  consistent with cultural background and socioeconomic status. Nutrition
				  counseling is an important component of medical nutrition therapy.
(18) Nutrition services--This term means:
(A) assessing the nutritional needs of
				  individuals and groups and determining resources and constraints in the
				  practice;
(B) establishing
				  priorities, goals, and objectives that meet nutritional needs and are
				  consistent with available resources and constraints;
(C) providing nutrition counseling in health
				  and disease;
(D) developing,
				  implementing, and managing nutrition care systems; or
(E) evaluating, making changes in, and
				  maintaining appropriate standards of quality in food and nutrition care
				  services.