Nutrition & Dietetics Program Assessment Capstone

Catalog description

This capstone course prepares students for the national credentialing nutrition and dietetic technician (NDTR) examination as well as guidance and preparation for employment in nutrition professional positions. This course reviews the student’s SCC Professional Portfolio completion utilized to track student competency, knowledge, and performance throughout the Nutrition and Dietetics program as well as providing a self-marketing tool for the student seeking employment or pursued education and internship ventures. This course includes job interviewing training and resume writing skill sessions and professional self-marketing for adequate workplace position and compensation. This course provides training for the student’s post-graduate skill set for becoming a future preceptor of dietetics students. This course exposes the student to the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) Professional Development Portfolio process to initiate, submit and maintain continuing professional education units once the NDTR credential is obtained. This course provides the student with training to identify levels of care (RDN vs NDTR) to establish a foundational working knowledge of critical care triage. This course reviews professional ethics scenarios as well as life-long learning opportunities and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) continuing education submission process. Students are provided with NDTR national exam information and the exam application process. This program-culminating nutrition and dietetics course contains the second (Domain II) comprehensive program exam covering ACEND competency and knowledge standards on the NDTR credentialing exam. Students must pass the program-comprehensive Domain II (Clinical) with a “C” or better (75% or higher) in this DIT 2855 capstone course to earn a release of the ACEND Verification statement required for the NDTR national credentialing exam application. Capstone students will have three attempts to successfully complete the comprehensive program assessment exam. Failure to successfully complete the comprehensive program assessment exam after three attempts will result in a maximum grade of “D” for the student in the course. Opportunities for remediation pathways are provided to all students with a grade of “D” as outlined in the Nutrition and Dietetics Policy and Procedures Student Handbook available on the Sinclair Nutrition and Dietetics program website.