Applications for licensure

An applicant for licensure as a dietitian/nutritionist shall file a written application on forms provided by the department or via online application 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 preprofessional 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. Amended by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 949,s 15, eff. 7/1/2014. Acts 1987, ch. 384, § 9. An applicant for licensure as a dietitian/nutritionist shall file a written application on forms provided by the department or via online application 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 preprofessional 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. Amended by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 949,s 15, eff. 7/1/2014. Acts 1987, ch. 384, § 9.