Graduate Nutrition Scope of Practice

May Include:

• Use of scientific and traditional evidence in development of nutritional and lifestyle treatment plan
• Clients are assessed on their individual dietary needs
• Prescription of use of foods as medicines
• Dietary analysis and nutritional plan (may include therapeutic diet and/or diet modification)
• Prescription, administration, dispensing and use of nutritional supplements or functional foods
• Lifestyle counselling
• Health assessment and the application of medical science, including pathophysiology
  from both orthodox and complementary and alternative medicine viewpoints and research findings
• Recognition of red flags for referral

Graduate Nutritionists are not permitted to treat:

• Notifiable disease (as defined by the New Zealand Ministry of Health).
• Malignancies or neoplasms (of any type), except when the patient/client is under conventional medical care and the treatment is confined to lifestyle and dietary support
• Psychiatric conditions where psychosis is the diagnosed disorder

Graduate nutritionists are not permitted to:

• Prescribe, administer, dispense or recommend any herbal products or nutritional supplementation that contains medicinal herb ingredients. Any herbal products are outside the scope of practice of a nutritionist as it is not included in the nutritional training. If herbal medicine is require an appointment or referral to a Wellpark naturopathic student or graduate is required. The only exception to this is herbs and spices in food (e.g. culinary herbs) which can be recommended to your clients in recipes.
• Students are not permitted to recommend any herbal product (packaged tea or otherwise) for a therapeutic purpose to their clients whilst  enrolled in NU201 as herbal medicine is outside their scope of practice.