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Dietetics

Undergraduate Didactic Program in Dietetics

Teach Others to Live Healthy

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With a growing emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion through healthy dietary habits, career opportunities for registered dietitians are expected to increase at the same rate as other health care professions. A growing and aging population will require the services of dietitians in:

  • school systems,
  • community/public health agencies,
  • hospitals,
  • retirement facilities,
  • home health care agencies and
  • the food industry.

Welcome

If you are curious about the connection between nutrition and health or would enjoy assisting people regain their health after an illness, then a career in the broad and dynamic field of dietetics might be for you.

The registered dietitian is the recognized, credentialed food and nutrition expert qualified to provide information designed to improve diet and prevent diseases with dietary risk factors as well as to provide medical nutrition therapy to individuals with diseases/medical conditions that require a dietary component in treatment.

A bachelor’s degree in dietetics from an accredited program is the first step in becoming a nutrition professional. Upon graduation, students are eligible to apply for a supervised practice experience (dietetic internship). Nicholls offers  an undergraduate/didactic program in dietetics.

The Nicholls undergraduate/didactic program is the only accredited program in southeastern Louisiana and the greater New Orleans area. The curriculum prepares students for post-baccalaureate programs and the work force with academic, laboratory and clinical education experiences.

News

Louisiana Dietetics Association Awards Announced

April 26th, 2010

Nicholls Dietetics student Becky Ory was given the Outstanding Student Award at this year’s annual meeting of the Louisiana Dietetic Association. This award recognizes emerging leadership and achievement of students who demonstrate professional potential and academic achievement. Becky will be graduating in May and will enter the North Oaks Dietetic Internship in Hammond.

The Outstanding Dietetic Educator Award was given to 1996 graduate Sherry Foret Smith, a registered dietitian, is the Nutrition Services Director at Chabert Medical Center in Houma. This award recognizes her teaching, mentoring, and leadership activities as a preceptor for dietetics students.

Holly Landry Dufrene, 2000 graduate, received the Association’s Emerging Dietetic Leader Award which recognizes dietitian’s who demonstrate dedication and leadership in promoting the health and nutrition of the population. Holly is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Diabetes Educator
with The Medical Team Home Health and Outpatient Diabetes Program in Houma.

The Louisiana Dietetic Association (www.eatrightlouisiana.org) is an affiliate of the American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org).

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