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that students who graduate meet the requirements in the following
five knowledge areas called KRDs:

KRD 1: Scientific and Evidence Base of Practice – You can do
research into dietetic topics and put the research into practice
through projects, experiments, reports, and analysis.
KRD 2: Professional Practice Expectations – You know how to com-
municate with people, both in writing and verbally, in ways that
help people create positive change. You follow ethical guide-
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lines and act like a professional.
KRD 3: Clinical and Customer Services – You know the nutritional
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care process and can use it effectively to make decisions, iden-
tify problems, diagnose solutions, implement, evaluate, and
monitor situations. These are the core skills that distinguish a
dietitian from other professionals.

KRD 4: Practice Management and Use of Resources –It takes more
than just understanding nutrition to be a dietitian. You need to
be able to manage financial resources, and people; understand
food service operations and food safety; follow public policy
and regulations related to dietetics; follow regulations related
to health care; and use the coding and billing of dietetics/nutri-
tion services.

KRD 5: Support Knowledge –You must have the core courses in
foods science, organic chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology,
etc. that serve as the foundation for dietetics.

Each area includes a list of competencies (CRD) that give the spe-
cific requirements you should be able to do as a dietitian. Being
able to classify your knowledge and skills into these five standard
areas is critical. Each work sample you include in your career portfo-
lio should show how you meet and exceed these standards. We will
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be using the ACEND standards as a way of categorizing work sam-
ples to document your abilities in the dietetic field. A listing of the
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ACEND standards for certified dietitians can be found in the
Resources section on page 183.

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