33-47-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this article:

(i) "Board" means the dietetics licensing board;

(ii) "Commission" means the commission on dietetic registration, the credentialing agency for the American dietetic association;

(iii) "Dietetics" means 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. "Dietetics" includes the nutrition care process and medical nutrition therapy. "Dietetics" does not include medical differential diagnosis of the health status of an individual;

(iv) "General nonmedical nutrition information" means information on any one (1) or more of the following:

(A) Principles of good nutrition and food preparation;

(B) Food to be included in the normal daily diet;

(C) The essential nutrients needed by the body;

(D) Recommended amounts of the essential nutrients, based on established standards;

(E) The actions of nutrients on the body;

(F) The effects of deficiencies or excesses of nutrients;

(G) Food and supplements that are good sources of essential nutrients.

(v) "Medical nutrition therapy" means the use of specific nutrition services for the purpose of disease management to treat or rehabilitate an illness, injury or condition and includes:

(A) Interpreting dietary data and recommending nutrient needs relative to medically prescribed diets, including but not limited to tube feedings, specialized intravenous solutions and specialized oral feedings;

(B) Food and prescription drug interactions; and

(C) Developing and managing food service operations whose chief function is nutrition care and provision of medically prescribed diets.

(vi) "Medically prescribed diet" means a diet prescribed when specific food or nutrient levels need to be monitored, altered, or both, as a component of a treatment program from an individual whose health status is impaired or at risk due to disease, injury or surgery and may only be performed as initiated by or in consultation with a physician licensed in this state or an individual authorized by a state license to prescribe medical care;

(vii) "Nutrition assessment" means the systematic process of obtaining, verifying and interpreting biochemical, anthropometric, physical and dietary data in order to make decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition related problems. It is an ongoing, dynamic process that involves not only initial data collection but also reassessment and analysis of client or community needs and provides the foundation for nutrition diagnosis and nutritional recommendations including enteral and parenteral nutrition;

(viii) "Nutrition care process" means the systematic problem solving method that dietitians use to critically think and make decisions when providing medical nutrition therapy or to address nutrition related problems and provide safe, effective, high quality care. The nutrition care process consists of four (4) distinct but interrelated steps including nutrition assessment, nutrition diagnosis, nutrition intervention and nutrition monitoring and evaluation;

(ix) "Nutrition diagnosis" means identifying and labeling nutritional problems that a dietetics practitioner is responsible for treating independently;

(x) "Nutrition intervention" means purposefully planned actions intended to positively change a nutrition related behavior, risk factor, environmental condition or aspect of health status for an individual, the individual's family, caregivers, target groups or the community at large;

(xi) "Nutrition monitoring and evaluation" means identifying patient or client outcomes relevant to the nutrition diagnosis and intervention plans and goals, and comparing those outcomes with previous status, intervention goals or a reference standard to determine the progress made in achieving desired outcomes of nutrition care. The purpose of nutrition monitoring and evaluation is to determine whether planned interventions should be continued or revised;

(xii) "Registered dietitian" means an individual registered with the commission or its successor organization;

(xiii) "This act" means W.S. 33-47-101 through 33-47-110.