2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 640E - Dietetics
NRS 640E.070 - Practice of dietetics defined.


NV Rev Stat § 640E.070 (2013) What's This?

1. Practice of dietetics means the performance of any act in the nutrition care process, including, without limitation, assessment, evaluation, diagnosis, counseling, intervention, monitoring and treatment, of a person which requires substantial specialized judgment and skill based on the knowledge, application and integration of the principles derived from the sciences of food, nutrition, management, communication, biology, behavior, physiology and social science to achieve and maintain proper nourishment and care of the health of the person.

2. The term does not include acts of medical diagnosis.

(Added to NRS by 2011, 1498)

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