2010 Tennessee Code
Title 63 - Professions Of The Healing Arts
Chapter 25 - Dietetics and Nutrition
63-25-108 - Applications for licensure.

63-25-108. Applications for licensure.

An applicant for licensure as a dietitian/nutritionist shall file a written application on forms provided by the department showing to the satisfaction of the board, that such person:

     (1)  Is of good moral character;

     (2)  Has received a baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university that provides a major course of study in human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, or food systems management, or an equivalent major course of study as approved by the board;

     (3)  Has successfully completed a planned continuous pre-professional experience in nutrition practice of not less than nine hundred (900) hours under the supervision of a registered dietitian, or successfully completed a program of supervised clinical experience approved by the commission on dietetic registration of the American Dietetic Association; and

     (4)  Has passed the national examination prepared and administered by the commission on dietetic registration of the American Dietetic Association.

[Acts 1987, ch. 384, § 9.]