§ 33-47-102 — Definitions

(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Board" means the dietetics licensing board;
(ii) "Commission" means the commission on dietetic
registration, the credentialing agency for the American dietetic
association;
(iii) "Dietetics" means the integration and
application of principles derived from the sciences of food,
nutrition, management, communication, and biological,
physiological, behavioral, and social sciences to achieve and
maintain optimal human health. "Dietetics" includes the
nutrition care process and medical nutrition therapy.
"Dietetics" does not include medical differential diagnosis of
the health status of an individual;
(iv) "General nonmedical nutrition information" means
information on any one (1) or more of the following:
(A) Principles of good nutrition and food
preparation;
(B) Food to be included in the normal daily
diet;
(C) The essential nutrients needed by the body;
(D) Recommended amounts of the essential
nutrients, based on established standards;
(E) The actions of nutrients on the body;
(F) The effects of deficiencies or excesses of
nutrients;
(G) Food and supplements that are good sources
of essential nutrients.
(v) "Medical nutrition therapy" means the use of
specific nutrition services for the purpose of disease
management to treat or rehabilitate an illness, injury or
condition and includes:
(A) Interpreting dietary data and recommending
nutrient needs relative to medically prescribed diets, including
but not limited to tube feedings, specialized intravenous
solutions and specialized oral feedings;
(B) Food and prescription drug interactions; and
(C) Developing and managing food service
operations whose chief function is nutrition care and provision
of medically prescribed diets.
(vi) "Medically prescribed diet" means a diet
prescribed when specific food or nutrient levels need to be
monitored, altered, or both, as a component of a treatment
program from an individual whose health status is impaired or at
risk due to disease, injury or surgery and may only be performed
as initiated by or in consultation with a physician licensed in
this state or an individual authorized by a state license to
prescribe medical care;
(vii) "Nutrition assessment" means the systematic
process of obtaining, verifying and interpreting biochemical,
anthropometric, physical and dietary data in order to make
decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition related
problems. It is an ongoing, dynamic process that involves not
only initial data collection but also reassessment and analysis
of client or community needs and provides the foundation for
nutrition diagnosis and nutritional recommendations including
enteral and parenteral nutrition;
(viii) "Nutrition care process" means the systematic
problem solving method that dietitians use to critically think
and make decisions when providing medical nutrition therapy or
to address nutrition related problems and provide safe,
effective, high quality care. The nutrition care process
consists of four (4) distinct but interrelated steps including
nutrition assessment, nutrition diagnosis, nutrition
intervention and nutrition monitoring and evaluation;
(ix) "Nutrition diagnosis" means identifying and
labeling nutritional problems that a dietetics practitioner is
responsible for treating independently;
(x) "Nutrition intervention" means purposefully
planned actions intended to positively change a nutrition
related behavior, risk factor, environmental condition or aspect
of health status for an individual, the individual's family,
caregivers, target groups or the community at large;
(xi) "Nutrition monitoring and evaluation" means
identifying patient or client outcomes relevant to the nutrition
diagnosis and intervention plans and goals, and comparing those
outcomes with previous status, intervention goals or a reference
standard to determine the progress made in achieving desired
outcomes of nutrition care. The purpose of nutrition monitoring
and evaluation is to determine whether planned interventions
should be continued or revised;
(xii) "Registered dietitian" means an individual
registered with the commission or its successor organization;
(xiii) "This act" means W.S. 33-47-101 through