Department Information
Department of Nutrition and Integrated Health Sciences
PO Box 70260
Phone: (423) 439-7405
Fax: (423) 439-4030
100 Hutcheson Hall
Web address: https://www.etsu.edu/chs/nutrition-integrated-health-sciences/undergraduate-program/nutrition.php
Contact for more information:
Whitney Bignell, PhD, RDN, LD/N
Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics
bignell@etsu.edu
(423) 439-7537
Healthcare professionals work with registered dietitian nutritionists (RDN) to apply scientific knowledge and skills to provide adequate nutritional care to patients and clients in clinical and community settings. Healthcare professionals with training in nutrition can use critical thinking skills to assess the nutritional status of patients, provide evidence-based nutrition care, and support medical nutrition therapy provided by the RDN. Healthcare professionals can also offer nutrition education and counseling to patients and clients, health coaching in out-patient settings, diabetes education and training, and monitoring tube feedings or nutrition support for patients in critical care units. This concentration does not meet the eligibility requirements for supervised practice and graduate programs to become a registered dietitian nutritionist. Students who later desire to become registered dietitian nutritionists can complete additional coursework included in the Dietetics concentration to receive their Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) Verification Statement to be eligible for graduate programs in Nutrition and Dietetics and supervised practice through Dietetic Internship (DI) programs.
Retention-Progression Policy: Nutrition students will be allowed to progress in the nutrition program as all nutrition courses are completed with a C or higher and all sciences courses are completed with a passing grade. Progression status will be evaluated at the close of each semester; students receiving less than a C in any of the classes listed above will be placed on probation. A student on probation who receives a second grade of less than C in one of the courses listed above will not be permitted to progress in the nutrition curriculum. Students earning failing grades in any nutrition or science course will be reviewed by faculty to determine feasibility of progression. Following the faculty review of student performance, an individual plan for curriculum completion will be presented for consideration for any student affected.
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