Dietetics Licensing Board

Dietetics Licensing Board

Chapter 3: Dietetics Licensure

Effective Date: 09/17/2012 to 04/21/2016

Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations

Reference Number: 043.0001.3.09172012

CHAPTER 3

DIETETICS LICENSURE

Section 1. The Practice of a Dietitian. The practice of a Dietitian consists of the integration and application of principles derived from the sciences of food, nutrition, management, communication, and biological, physiological, behavioral, and social sciences to achieve and maintain optimal human health. It includes the nutrition care process and medical nutrition therapy, but does not include medical differential diagnosis of the health status of an individual.

Section 2. General Requirements for License. It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the Board receives all documentation necessary to prove to the Board's satisfaction that the applicant meets all the requirements for licensure herein. Applicants shall provide evidence satisfactory to the Board that they:

1. (a) are of majority age; and
2. (b) have no felony convictions, and no misdemeanor convictions involving moral turpitude, although exceptions to this requirement may be granted by the Board if consistent with the public interest; and
3. (c) are legal inhabitants of the United States, and
4. (d) have received a baccalaureate or post baccalaureate degree from a CADE accredited college or university with a major course of study in human nutrition, nutrition education, public health nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, food systems management or an equivalent major course of study as approved by the board, and
5. (i) Applicants who have obtained a degree outside of the United States and its territories must request that the CADE evaluate that degree program to determine if it is equivalent to the same degree conferred by a regionally accredited college or university in the United States.
6. (e) have completed a documented supervised pre-professional practice experience component in dietetics of not less than nine hundred (900) hours under the supervision of a registered dietitian, a licensed dietitian or an individual with a doctoral degree conferred by a United States regionally accredited college or university with a major course of study in human nutrition, nutrition education, food and nutrition, dietetics or food systems management; and
7. (f) have successfully completed the registration examination for dietitians administered by the CDR or an examination of an equivalent level approved by the Board;

Section 3. Licensure by Reciprocity. An applicant holding a license in good standing to engage in the practice of dietetics under the laws of another state having licensure requirements at least as stringent as those required by the Act may be issued a license. A registered dietitian whose previous state of residence does not require licensure may be issued a license if he or she meets the

requirements of W.S. 33-47-106.

(a) If reciprocity is not granted, the applicant shall have the opportunity to show that they meet the requirements of W.S. 33-47-106.