So I'm going to be speaking to you about why I do not have my Master's in Nutrition & Dietetics
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Hi everyone my name is Kim I'm a Registered Dietitian: Welcome back to my channel.
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So I'm not sure if you guys know, but in the year 2024 the field of Nutrition & Dietetics
will changing.
Those that are coming into the profession 2024 and after will be required to hold a
Master's degree in order to practice as a dietitian.
Currently some individuals have a Bachelor's degree and that is what I currently possess.
So I'm going to be speaking to you about why I do not have my Master's Degree in Nutrition
& Dietetics.
So let me just start off with this: there is nothing wrong with getting a Master's degree.
For those of you that do have a Master's degree defiantly kudos you to, but of course there
is--there's a story so I'm about to tell you my story.
I don't think I've said this before on my channel, but I actually got married during
my dietetic internship.
Now talk about STRESS!
Now, that is another story for another time.
Fast-forwarding a couple of years, after working in the field of dietetics for a little bit
I wanted to start my Master's.
I got into the program everything was good to go.
And then my husband also got into nursing at the same time.
So of course, you know having two people in school at the same time --that is a financial
burden.
Something that I am not really into is loans and taking out loans.
Of course, you know people can pay back loans, but me personally that my thing I'm not going
to take out loans I'd rather pay for everything if I am able to.
So of course, me being in school, him being in school...it was just financially a little
too much and I hadn't started my program yet, I was about to start my program in a matter
of, I think it was about 2 months, and he had started his program already.
So we just said you know what go ahead, he's going to start his program, finish his program
and then I'm going to be on my A-game and then I would go ahead and get my Master's
degree.
Actually he is still in his program he's about to graduate in about...I think it's 3 or 4
weeks.
I'm just happy he's done because it's been a process.
I started looking into different specialties that I could get into.
There's a certified renal specialist, there's a certified diabetes educator, there's a certified
geriatric specialist, there's a sport's dietitian [speciality].
And there's also different certificates that you can get as well such as weight management.
Currently at this time, hopefully pretty soon, keeping my fingers crossed I still have a
little more studying to do, I will be sitting down and taking one of those speciality exams.
I'm not going to actually tell you what it is until I pass because you know what if I
don't pass??
So definitely having a specialty in dietetics is something that I've done in the meantime.
So recently husband was saying to me 'Kim, you know, you should go back and do your Master's'.
The initial program that I applied to was a Master's of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics,
however, I'm realizing, for me this is just my personal opinion I'm not knocking anyone
that has a Master's in...
Master's of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics, but for me I kind of want to get my Master's
in something else.
Recently informatics in the field of Nutrition & [Dietetics] is becoming very, very big!
I actually work for the 11th largest employer in the world and I saw that they're doing...they're
having a job opening for dietitians which have a Master's in Informatics and I'm like:
THAT IS SO ME, but I'm lacking the Master's degree at this time.
So let me tell you guys what informatics actually is
and I feel like out world is headed towards informatics.
I mean everything's electronical or becoming electronical.
Hospitals have to have an electronical medical record by a certain time frame and everything
now is digital.
So basically what nutrition informatics is, it's where nutrition, and technology, and science
meet.
Informatics is very important because I mean, that is the way that the world is evolving
at this time.
Dietitians in the profession need to evolve to that.
I also feel that Nutrition Informatics is going to evolve healthcare, like right now
I work in healthcare and informatics is not only going to affect healthcare, because of
course, you know, we use an electronical medical record --the EMR.
So I know that there's currently some nurses that I have met, that I have worked with, and they have
actually come out of being a beside nurse and they've start...they've starting working
in the computer world to protect the electronical medical record.
I know one of the ways that individuals such as dietitians can become involved in informatics
is through the nutrition care process.
Now, every dietitian knows what I mean by the nutrition came process, but for those
individuals which do not know what I mean by the nutrition care process it's basically
like a standardized way that dietitians are doing things.
Informatics can be used to organize and compile information related to food illnesses, food
allergies, outbreaks, as well as providing nutrition analysis for schools, community
centers, things of that nature.
In education informatics is heavily used at this time like for some dietetic internships
some of them are distance learning, so of course, you know, you're relying heavily
on your computer, or your tablet, or your smart phone or whatever device that is to, to communicate,
to track, to organize, to retrieve information.
In nutrition management informatics is used for staffing purposes, for ordering purposes,
for forecasting!
I know that is something my director does a lot, she does a lot of forecasting, forecasting
her budget, balancing staff workload, productivity, the whole 9-yards.
So these are just some areas that informatics can be used.
So something that I am going to do if you want more information about informatics and the
area that I am looking into, I'm going to leave an article from the Academy of Nutrition
& Dietetics in my description box below so that you guys can go ahead and take a look
at it.
So guys this is about it.
Thank you guys very much for watching.
Do have a good day.
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