Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)
RDs and RDNs are food and nutrition experts who have met the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s (CDR) criteria to become credentialed through the completion of academic, supervised practice, and examination requirements. RD and RDNs work in a wide variety of settings, including health care, business and industry, community/public health, education, research, government agencies and private practice.
- Type Certification
- Level Foundational
- Time Years
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Accessibility
- Advocacy
- Business
- Clinical Care
- Clinical Research
- Community Health
- Counseling
- Critical Thinking
- Cultural Competency
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Dietetics
- Diversity
- Equity
- Ethics
- Evidence Based Healthcare
- Food Safety
- Food Science
- Food Service Management
- Global Health
- Healthcare Informatics
- Inclusion
- Leadership
- Management
- Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Nutrition
- Nutrition Assessment
- Nutrition Education
- Organizational Management
- Pharmacotherapy
- Population Health Management
- Product Development
- Public Health
- Registered Dietitian
- Scholarship
Earning Criteria
Standards
The Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND®) is the accrediting agency for education programs preparing students for careers as registered dietitian nutritionists or nutrition and dietetics technicians, registered. ACEND® develops and publishes Accreditation standards for dietetics programs.