ARC 1835C
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE DIVISION[645]
Adopted and Filed
Pursuant to the authority of Iowa Code section 147.76 and 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1006, the Professional Licensure Division hereby amends Chapter 81, “Licensure of Dietitians,” and Chapter 83, “Discipline for Dietitians,” Iowa Administrative Code.
These amendments implement 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1006, which addresses technical changes to reflect the name changes of the national organization of dietetic professionals and the accrediting body for the formal education and supervised experience training programs and clarifies that the Commission on Dietetic Registration examination is the board-approved licensure examination. These amendments also add the current terminology for supervised experience program requirements for licensure to be consistent with the current terminology used by the national accrediting body and update the terminology regarding licensure exemptions that pertain to dietetics students and the conduct of teaching clinical demonstrations to be consistent with the changes in names and terminology.
Notice of Intended Action for these amendments was published in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin on November 12, 2014, as ARC 1728C. A public hearing was held on December 2, 2014, from 12 noon to 1 p.m.	in Conference Room 513, Fifth Floor, Lucas State Office Building, Des Moines, Iowa. One comment, which was in favor of these amendments, was received. The adopted amendments are identical to those published under Notice.
These amendments were adopted by the Board of Dietetics on December 19, 2014.
These amendments are subject to the waiver provisions at 645—Chapter 18.
After analysis and review of this rule making, there is no known negative jobs impact.
These amendments are intended to implement 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1006.
These amendments shall become effective on February 25, 2015.
The following amendments are adopted.
	Item 1. Amend subrule 81.5(1) as follows:
	81.5(1) The applicant shall be issued a license to practice dietetics by the board when the applicant possesses possess a baccalaureate degree or postbaccalaureate degree from a U.S. regionally accredited college or university with a major course of study in human nutrition, food and nutrition, nutrition education, dietetics, or food systems management, or in an equivalent major course of study, which meets minimum academic requirements as established by the American Dietetic Association Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and is approved by the board.
	Item 2. Amend subrule 81.5(2) as follows:
	81.5(2) A foreign-trained dietitian shall:
	a. 	Provide an official letter sent directly from the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) to the board to verify that the applicant has met the minimum academic and didactic program requirements of CDR. Foreign degree evaluation agencies and equivalency evaluation requirements of the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) are listed on the CADE ACEND Web site at: http://www.eatright.org/students/getstarted/international/agencies.aspx http://www.eatright.org/ACEND/content.aspx?id=241; and
	b. 	Provide evidence of meeting all other requirements in these rules.
	Item 3. Amend rule 645—81.6(152A) as follows:
645—81.6(152A) Supervised experience. The applicant shall complete a documented supervised practice experience component that meets the requirements established by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) an accredited competency-based supervised experience program approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).
	Item 4. Amend subrule 83.2(1) as follows:
	83.2(1) Failure to comply with the American Dietetic Association Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/Commission on Dietetic Registration, Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics and Process for Consideration of Ethics Issues, as revised effective January 1, 2010, hereby adopted by reference. Copies may be obtained from the American Dietetic Association Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/Commission on Dietetic Registration Web site at http://www.cdrnet.org http://www.eatright.org/codeofethics/.
[Filed 12/31/14, effective 2/25/15]
[Published 1/21/15]
Editor’s Note: For replacement pages for IAC, see IAC Supplement 1/21/15.