Dietitian
"Feel more comfortable with your body today"
Josie Hilbert
Mrs.Perz Science Class
Basic information about your career
- Work for hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and some work at university's to continue to do research
- Work with many different people
- Pleasant working conditions
- Work on computers to plan meals
- $34,500 per year national for entry
- Promote healthy eating
- Plan healthy meals for people who are overweight and unhealthy
- Modify's people's diets like reducing all the bad sugars and salts
- Work with patients, clients, doctors, nurses, and food service workers to make people's healthy eating styles better
- There is more than just one path to be a dietitian
Pros
- You make good money
- Choose to work part or full time
- You can pick from a variety of places to work in (hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and some work at university's to continue to do research)
- Work with many different patients
Cons
- Go to school for a long time
- You have to work with a strict budget
- Some people can bevery difficult to work with
- Sometimes people don't like any of the food you give them so you have to go around what they like and what they don't like
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
- Anatomy and physiology
- biology,
- chemistry
- 2 years of world language
- Statistics and probability
- At least a bachelors degree
- Has to pass an exam to be a registered dietitian
- Need a liesense (29-1031.00 DIETITIAN)
- Dietetics is a major you could get in college
Associations/Professional organization for this career
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL, 60606-6995
312/899-0040 or 800/877-1600
Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
563 Carter Court, Suite B
Kimberly, WI, 54136
920/560-5619 or 888/232-8631
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Job Advertisement
Are you a person who loves keeping people healthy? If you are then this job is for you! Dietitians make around $42,630 on average national. You change people's diets around and make them more healthy. You get to work with different kinds of people all day. You work in hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and some work at university's to continue to do research. If you are good on computers this job is going to be easier for you, because you can make plans for people's meals. If this job is for you call (920)373-2478.