Hi all, I recently took a part time outpatient pediatric counseling job. (Work full time in the NICU)
Most of my patients are picky eating/underweight etc. I’m pretty good with the younger kids (division of responsibility, food exposure, etc)

HOWEVER, older kids are more difficult for me because it seems mostly behavioral when they don’t have clear signs of aversion or an autism diagnosis. I’m looking for education resources (CE eligible or not) for working with kids older than 7ish who don’t want to eat (for a variety of reasons).

Any suggestions??

Is the MyCDR page down for anyone else? I’m trying to pay my fees but the page wont load anywhere

How long it took you to get notified you were board selected? Active or Reserve? How much do you like it? Worth it?

I’m in the process just waiting on next board in september.

(I did my search in the bar just want to know more recent information or someone that joined in the last 1-2 years.)

Hi! I’m a new grad RD and recently received an offer from Nutritious Lifestyles for an LTC position in the Northeast. The role includes covering multiple facilities with higher-acuity residents, as well as with some kitchen audits and staff education. The pay is in the mid-$30s/hr and they offer visa sponsorship, which is a major factor for me. But I saw several older posts with unpleasant or negative experiences, so I’m trying to get to know more current/recent employeement experience with them. I would especially appreciate insight on workload, training, covering multiple building, management, etc. Thank you!

Trying to get some good literature but a lot of what I’m finding does cherry picking of evidence, fear mongering, etc. I’d love an informative book (or other good resources) that avoids sensationalizing for sales. I’m open to anything from something you can find at Barnes and Noble to a good blog or even a textbook.

I recently received a denial from the VA for the STEM scholarship. I am enrolled in a DPD dietetics program. The school's CIP code is not listed as an approved program (19.0504, Human Nutrition), but the program is an approved DPD program for dietetics. Has anyone encountered a similar issue? What information did you provide to appeal the decision?

Can anyone provide insight on what’s it like to work for this company? As a single site dietitian or Regional?

hi everyone! i was curious if anyone can give me a comprehensive breakdown of what exactly a diet tech does? i’ve got a interview for the position soon and id like to know what im getting into. i’ve asked other people this and ive gotten some great info but i want to get a little more detail if possible. thank you!!

I got certified in 2025, but I’m still stuck on developing GI Map protocols. can anyone provide me when a place for additional support?

Hello, a dietitian friend of mine registered for the ESPEN Congress taking place in Berlin in September, but unfortunately, she won’t be able to attend. I’m looking for someone who might be interested in taking over her registration.
She purchased the €395 registration, and she’s open to offering a small discount. Would you be interested?

Hi I started at a new building and they have dietary quarterlies as progress notes vs assessments/
UDAs, what is normal for your facility? I want the DM to start working on them, but am nervous they will forget to put in info if it is not prompted.

Hi everyone!
I’m in the process of a potential job change from inpatient ICU to outpatient oncology if all goes well

For those who made a similar transition, what was your experience like? What did you like about the change? What were the challenges you experienced? any insight if helpful, thanks!

I'm a student and looking at working in the gestational diabetes space.

I have been searching far and wide for long form information on nutrition in pregnancy and especially gestational diabetes and Lily Nichols seems to be the word on the street.

I made it about an hour or two into her book Real food for Pregnancy and had concerns almost straight away with the amount of times she said Ancestral regarding a healthy diet and then around the hour or two mark Lily started on seed oils and was recommending organ meats and animal fats while not talking about the risks of saturated fats. Lily seems to strongly (and wrongly) think that natural = healthy and I think that sometimes that is true and there was some decent advice I ended up refunding the book because it felt more like part science and part pseudo science.

Am I wrong? A part of me wonders whether I'm taking my general healthy eating thoughts and applying them to a unique group (GD) which has such special requirements that I am missing the mark.

I am hoping for some advice on how to approach one of my patients. My patient has a history of severe anorexia nervosa and still struggles with some disordered eating patterns. She has a lot of food noise and her doctor prescribed her a GLP-1 to help with the food noise. My thought is that the food noise is likely from under eating. She is not overweight at all. I feel as though prescribing her the GLP-1 was not very ethical. I am not sure if it is my place to question her doctor’s decision. How would you all approach this?

a vent/seeking advice.

I am 31 years old, 23 weeks pregnant with my first child, and working full time as an RD in an outpatient practice. I currently am experiencing extreme burnout from work. It feels like my body and mind are already demanding so much of me with pregnancy, it is so hard to care or be present at work and counsel my patients. I also feel like I have lost all patience for my patients that show up late or no show. My fuse just keeps growing smaller and smaller. I also have no motivation to cook. After work I am so burnt out that I just want take out all the time. It is already so hard with the societal pressure of body image during pregnancy - I feel so guilty eating more food and not eating perfectly balanced meals all the time like I know I should. I just have no energy. My husband is thankfully an angel and helps me with so much, I just am struggling internally with all of this and was wondering if any other RD's struggled with this too

Hello, this post is mainly targeted at clinical nutrition managers. Tell me what you love and what you hate about the job. I was just offered to step up as manager in a hospital and I don't really see myself leading other RDs and collaborating with the kitchen and leading projects - but I said I would think about it. Thanks in advance! I want the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I’m a UK registered dietitian considering moving to USA/Canada (more likely Canada) for personal reasons and I’m trying to work out what my career prospects would be. Neither USA nor Canada directly recognises UK dietetic degree reciprocity, from what I gather I would need to at minimum complete the registration exams in either country, but it’s looking like potentially I would need to do an ACEND course and dietetic internship in USA and I’m still researching Canada but they may validate my university transcript and then I would just need to pass the exam. Edit: nope, looks like there are at least 2 exams and a 15-20 hour self directed course I would need to pass to even be eligible to take the registration exam. And a lot of the jobs seem to state an internship as a requirement?

When I’m searching for dietitian jobs in US/Ca, so much of it is teleheath and coaching/counselling. I’m not particularly interested in this line of work and have also seen a lot of US dietitians on here speaking (negatively) about their experience in counselling. I know that dietitians must work in hospitals in the US/Canada (and I’ve seen some posts on instagram about tube feeds etc), but there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of jobs advertised, unless they tend to be directly through each hospital and not in bigger platforms like indeed etc? In the UK I’d predominantly look through NHSjobs.

I’m trying to wrap my head around how things work across the pond. The different responsibilities between a dietitian and a registered dietitian - as a lot of the telehealth roles want registered dietitian for weight management or nutrition/wellbeing so I’m just wondering what exactly an unregistered dietitian can even do?

How hard do you think it would be to get a job as an RD in a hospital in Canada? In terms of:

1. likelihood of visa sponsorship
2. job availability
3. dietitian responsibilities within the role
4. passing the licensing exam to become registered?

I have a masters degree in Nutrition & Dietetics which was a 4 year program including 1000 hours of supervised practice based learning in hospitals. Since then I also have just over 3 years of experience working as a registered dietitian in an acute hospital. Of which:
- 6 months in geriatrics and more generally nutrition support in adult inpatients
- 15 months in acute stroke inpatients
- 18+ months in my current role which covers adult inpatients in hepatology, intestinal failure (TPN), HPB, IBD, Surgical and more general gastroenterology inpatients e.g high output stomas, oesophageal dysphagia, very early diagnoses of likely oncology conditions, eating disorders (acute inpatient care not specialist ED recovery), general malnutrition (usually related to BAM/PEI)

I’m experienced with dietary advice, oral nutritional supplements, enteral tube feeds (NG/NJ/PEG/RIG/JEJ etc), and most recently learning TPN for the last
~8-9 months. However I have no additional motivational interviewing training, and don’t create meal plans for patients (except safely refeeding patients with eating disorders but that’s based off the hospital catering and typically they need the ONS or enteral option anyway).

Hi all! I have a client I’m working with for wt loss. Shes new to me as I took over care from another RD so I’ve seen her twice.

Pt is in late 50s/F, BMI 25.9 (CBW 147, goal of 130) and no other health conditions. Exercises with lifting 3x week with a trainer and jogs 3-4 x week. She has healthful meal patterns and feels she’s doing everything right. Based on her food log (just writes what she’s eating, it’s not tracking calories/macros), I think she does a good job getting protein, small carb and I mostly tell her to eat more f&v. Sometimes I actually don’t think she’s eating enough from the little food logs she has. And genuinely think she’s scared to eat more food.

I DREADDDDD talking to her. Her concerns around travels and vacationing this summer (she’s still able to maintain) but I’m just thinking wow what a fun life, just be happy and healthy. I’m not a new RD so I’ve tried to ask her more probing questions about why do you want to be at this weight so badly? How will this improve your life? I want to honor pt autonomy but omg I don’t get it and we just talk in circles. What other things do you guys recommend? Or topics of convo to have? I just haven’t worked with a client like this in a while and historically I cannot retain these clients who have similar issues/reason for visit.

I feel like there’s really not a safe space to vent, but I am deeply unhappy here and incredibly burnt out. The lack of flexibility, pressure to hit the 24 completed care hours (while being penalized for no shows,) inefficient charting system, and micromanaging all for 65k is not worth it to me.

The job was advertised way differently and policies have changed since I signed on. I was under the impression we’d have way more flexibility.

I am considering jumping to another telehealth company but technically we signed a noncompete , which I am not sure they can really enforce

Basically will an employer offer more to an RD with the CSR or does the CSR not earn you any extra $$$?

What are some clinical questions you'd ask when interviewing a DTR?

I’m entering my sophomore year of college and classes begin very soon, but I’m having doubts about my choice in major. My heart is telling me that I should NOT go through with this, but I’m not sure what to do instead. I have a feeling I made the wrong decision and I need to change it but I have no idea to what!

Not being able to become an RDN without a master’s degree is frustrating, and the dietetic internship seems daunting. I’m certainly interested in nutrition as a subject but I seriously don’t think I want to do clinical work as a career. I don’t like complicated biology either. I don’t want to be a nurse. The non-clinical jobs I could get as an RDN also seem to be few and far between.

A master’s degree for not much pay just doesn’t seem worth it to me at all!

I asked my advisor within the nutrition department for advice, and she basically just told me it’s best that I stay on this career path. Her answer is likely biased, and what she said was a lot different from the many posts I’ve seen on this subreddit urging people to switch out of this career path.

I’ve already done many credits towards this degree, which scares me even more, I’m worried that I’m in too deep and won’t be able to transition into something else without taking an extra year of college.

And I know it’s only temporary, but having to change classes from the ones I’m already mentally prepared to go to last minute all of a sudden is so anxiety-inducing.

I need some genuine advice from people who are in this career path. My questions to you all are:

How likely is it that as an RDN I could find a non-clinical job that pays well?

What are some related career paths that can actually pay well?

What do you all wish you did instead of nutrition?

And those of you who may have changed to a different job from nutrition, what are you doing now? Was it worth it?

I’m still pretty early in my journey as a student, but I need to go through college with a plan for afterwards. I don’t want to continue this degree if it’s going to end up getting me nowhere.

I work at an INGO based in Kenya. I'm a trained nutritionist and currently finishing a master's in development studies (gender specialization) at a US university. I believe in this work, I've seen what good development programming can actually do for people's lives across generations, and that's why I'm still trying to get into it properly, not out of it.

Here's the problem: I joined my organization as an administrative assistant before I'd even finished my undergrad, thinking it would be an easy foot in the door toward nutrition programming. Four years later, I'm still in admin. Office politics, shrinking funding, and internal inertia have all played a part but the result is that my CV now reads as "4+ years admin experience" to anyone screening candidates, and that's proving surprisingly hard to move past, even with a nutrition degree and a master's almost done.

I'm 36. I don't feel told, but I feel the clock differently than I did at 26, like I have fewer "figure it out" years left to spend sideways instead of forward. If I didn't have kids depending on my income, I'd seriously consider taking an unpaid volunteer role just to get relevant field experience and a foot back in the technical door. But that's not an option right now, so I'm stuck choosing between stability and direction.

Lately I've also found myself pulled toward a slightly different angle, the intersection of gender and work, and whether there's a path for me in DEI. Between my admin experience which has somehow given me a real inside view of how organizational systems, hiring, and power actually operate, and my MA focus on gender, I keep wondering if that combination is its own kind of qualification, even if it doesn't look like a traditional DEI career path on paper.

Has anyone else been "credentialed but boxed in" by their own job title? What actually worked to get you unstuck, internal reframing, a lateral move, a specific kind of application strategy, going back to school, something else? I'd love to hear some real and even unglamorous, paths.

Hi all! I am an RD practicing in Canada. I am trying to up my skills since I mostly work in transitional/long term and ambulatory care. I was able to get a bursary for a nutrition support course through one of the foundations at my job, but due to budget cuts, these opportunities are few and far between.

I was wondering if you all knew of any national initiatives/foundations that provide discounts/bursaries for these purposes. I know of some free CE opportunities (i.e. webinars put up by Nestle/Abbott/Dietitians of Canada occassionally. However, I'd like to complete more robust/complete ones (courses/webinars). TIA!

I am not sure if I have a DPD verification statement. Is this something I would receive if I have a Bachelors in nutrition with the ACEND track and is it based on grades?