NUTR 4000 - Nutrition in the Community

• Apply knowledge of the role of the environment, food and lifestyle choices to develop interventions to affect change and enhance wellness in diverse individuals and groups.
• Apply safety principles related to food, personnel, and consumers.
• Demonstrate assertiveness, advocacy, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrate effective and professional oral and written communication and documentation.
• Develop an educational session/program/educational strategy for a target population.
• Develop outcome measures, use informatics principles, and technology to collect and anlyze data for assessment and evaluate data to use in decision making.
• Explain the impact of a public policy position on nutrition and applied nutrition practice.
• Explain the impact of health care policy and administration, different health care delivery systems, and current reimbursement issues, policies, and regulations on food and nutrition services.
• Identify and describe roles of others with whom registered dietitians and other nutrition/applied nutrition professionals collaborate in the delivery of food and nutrition services.
• Locate, interpret, evaluate, and use professional literature to make ethical evidence-based practice decisions.
• Use current information technologies to locate and apply evidence-based guidelines and protocols.
• Use the nutrition care process to make decisions, identify nutrition-related problems, and determine/evaluate nutrition interventions.