Definitions: The following terms shall have the meaning set forth below, unless

Definitions: The following terms shall have the meaning set forth below, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" shall mean the Mississippi State Board of Health. 2. "Advisory Council" shall mean the Mississippi Council of Advisors in Dietetics. 3. "Association" means the American Dietetic Association (ADA). 4. "Mississippi Association" means the Mississippi Dietetic Association, an affiliate of the American Dietetic Association (MDA). 5. "Commission on Dietetic Registration" (CDR) means the Commission on Dietetic Registration that is a member of the National Commission for Health Certifying Agencies. 6. "Degree" means a degree received from a college or university that was accredited through the Council on Post-secondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was conferred. 7. "Registered Dietitian" means a person registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. 8. "Licensed Dietitian" means a person licensed pursuant to these regulations. 9. "Provisionally Licensed Dietitian" means a person provisionally licensed pursuant to these regulations. 10. "Dietetics Practice" means the integration and application of the principles derived from the sciences of nutrition, biochemistry, food, physiology, management and behavioral and social sciences to achieve and maintain people's health. Dietetic practice includes, but is not limited to: a. Providing medical nutrition therapy. b. Development, administration, evaluation, and consultation regarding nutritional care standards of quality in food services and medical nutrition therapy. c. Providing nutrition counseling in health and disease. d. Developing, implementing and managing nutrition care systems. e. Providing case management services. 11. "Medical nutrition therapy" is a nutritional diagnostic therapy and counseling services for the purpose of disease management. It means the assessment of the nutritional status of patients with a condition, illness, or injury that appropriately requires medical nutrition therapy as part of the treatment. The assessment includes review and analysis of medical and diet history, blood chemistry lab values and anthropometric measurements to determine nutritional status and treatment modalities. a. Therapy ranges from diet modification and nutrition counseling to administration of specialized nutrition therapies such as intravenous medical nutritional products as determined necessary to manage a condition or treat illness or injury. b. Administration of specialized nutrition therapies does not include the clinical aspects of insertion of the nasogastric tube, initiation of the intravenous line, nor administration of nutritional feedings/fluids or medications via the intravenous, nasogastric, or gastrostomy route. 12. "Diet modification and nutrition counseling" means intervention and advice in assisting individuals or groups in the development of personal diet plans to achieve appropriate nutritional intake. To develop the diet plan, the dietitian integrates information from the nutritional assessment with information on food and other sources of nutrients and meal preparation consistent with cultural background and socioeconomic status. 13. "Specialized nutrition therapies" mean medical foods, enteral nutrition delivered via tube, or parenteral nutrition delivered by intravenous infusion. 14. "Nutrition Educator" shall mean one who communicates scientific nutrition information to individuals and/or groups and who provides information on food sources of nutrients to meet normal nutrition need based on the most current "Recommended Dietary Allowances" of the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. 15. "Dietitian" means one engaged in dietetics practice, medical nutrition therapy or nutrition education. The terms dietitian or dietician are used interchangeably in this chapter. 16. "Direct technical supervision" means the direct, technical supervision by a licensed dietitian, as prescribed in regulations by the Board, of the dietetics practice or medical nutrition therapy provided to an individual and/or group by a provisionally licensed dietitian. 17. "License" shall mean the document of licensure issued by the Board. 18. "Department" shall mean the Mississippi Department of Health. 19. "Examination" shall mean the Registration Examination for Dietitians as administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration or other examination that the Department may designate. 20. "Act" shall mean the "Mississippi Dietetics Practice Act of 1986," Sections 73- 10-1 et seq. of Mississippi Code of 1972, annotated. 21. “Nonmedical Weight Control” shall mean the provision of services for the purpose of reducing, maintaining, or gaining weight that does not constitute the treatment and management of a disease or medical condition. The term includes weight control services for healthy population groups to achieve or maintain a healthy weight.