Academy Quality Management promotes and supports Registered Dietitians and Dietetic Technicians, Registered, from all areas of practice in providing, measuring and reporting quality of nutrition care and services. This is paramount to our nation's healthcare and to the marketplace.
Academy Quality Management is involved in developing process and performance programs, resources and tools to assess and improve the client-centered care through quality indicators in standards of practice, competence self-evaluation and outcomes-based research and data collection.
Scope/Standards of Practice
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Focus Area SOP SOPP
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Scope of practice in nutrition and dietetics encompasses the range of roles, activities, and regulations within which nutrition and dietetics practitioners perform.
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Focus Area Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance are tools used by credentialed dietetics practitioners for self assessment, professional development and advancement of practice. (Journal username and password required for accesss to articles)
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Practice Tips
To purchase additional practice tips, please visit Academy Shop.
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Definition of Terms
The definition of terms is an alphabetical list of definitions developed by the Academy. The definitions are broad based, have implications for use across the nutrition and dietetics profession, and are consistent with the regulatory and legal needs of the profession.
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Regulatory Resources
CMS has issued the following memos regarding hospital staff medical privileging, therapeutic diet orders, authentication of verbal orders and standing orders.
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Clinical Staffing and Productivity
The Academy has many resources for clinical staffing and productivity. Journal articles and books are included in these resources as well as a study currently in progress by the Academy.
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