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Thank you tramarus. I will look into public health administration.

Classic dame, In Florida you cannot call yourself a nutritionist with out being a registered dietician.

Kelrn when you say years away do you mean after i get my rn or after i get my arnp. I was speaking to someone about what i wanted to do and he said it sounded like life coaching. However i don't want to be some uneducated dude doing things out side of my scope of practice. I am torn between nursing or dietetics and lcsw.

Thank you noyesno. I want to have my own private practice. I have researched what most employed dieticians do and it is unappealing work. The dieticans that i spoke with who were happy with there jobs were all self employeed. I have been wrestling with the fact that as a self employeed dietican i will be working almost exclusively with wealthy clients. Our health care system doesn't pay for patient education. I became diabetic a few years ago and reacived almost no nutritional education. My doctor just gave me a pamphlet and told me to not eat white foods. Nursing would give me a chance to work with people of lesser means which is something i love. I fear it wouldn't give me the scope of practice i desire. I was hoping that NPs might have this in their scope of practice. I would welcome the challenges of being an RN as i work towards becoming an NP. I feel that working in the trenches and seeing just how devastating diseases such as diabetes can be would give me better insight as a nutritional counselor and i still love the holistic perspective of the nursing model.

Thank you libran. I am consider ing nursing but am also considering dietetics as a bachelors and social work as a masters so i can work with people at a high rusk of developing a obesity related disease. However,u xant find any information on wether being an rn or np would give me the scope of practice similar to that of a dietician. I was originally attracted to nursing because of its wholistic aspect.

Example prescribing a particular diet based on a patients disease. What about APRNs. I want to work in the health care community and i want to focus on patients effected by obesity. I hear that nurses can specialize in nutrition. No one has been able to tell me what a nurses scope of practice is when it comes to nutrition. From what i understand only doctors and dieticians can provide detailed nutritional counseling.

I know that nursing scope of practice changes from state to state. In general what level of education and nutritional prescription are we allowed to give. This goes for RN and APRN.