133VN1004X — Pediatric Nutrition Registered Dietitian
- Grouping
- Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers
- Classification
- Dietitian, Registered
- Specialization
- Nutrition, Pediatric
- Section
- Individual
Definition
An individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Pediatric Nutrition and applies evidence-based nutrition knowledge in providing medical nutrition therapy for pediatric patients. Specialists work directly with healthy and/or ill children (newborn up to 21 years of age) as well as children with special health care needs in a variety of settings (hospitals, community-based and/or family-centered programs, education programs, home, etc.), OR indirectly through management, care coordination, education, quality improvement, or research practice linked specifically to pediatric nutrition.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Dietitian, Registered
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 133V00000XDietitian, Registered
- 133VN1005XNutrition, Renal
- 133VN1006XNutrition, Metabolic
- 133VN1101XNutrition, Gerontological
- 133VN1201XNutrition, Obesity and Weight Management
- 133VN1301XNutrition, Oncology
- 133VN1401XNutrition, Pediatric Critical Care
- 133VN1501XNutrition, Sports Dietetics